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Carey Mulligan
Mulligan in September 2009.
Born
Carey Hannah Mulligan

(1985-05-28) 28 May 1985 (age 39)
Westminster, London, England
OccupationActress
Years active2005–present

Carey Hannah Mulligan[1] (born 28 May 1985)[2] is an English actress. She made her film debut as Kitty Bennet in Pride & Prejudice (2005). She had roles in numerous British programmes and, in 2007, made her Broadway debut in The Seagull to critical acclaim.

In 2009, she gained widespread recognition for playing the lead role of Jenny in An Education, winning a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role and also being nominated for a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award for her performance. Later, she went on to star in such dramatic films as The Greatest, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, Never Let Me Go and Drive.

Early life

Mulligan was born in Westminster, London, England.[3] Her father, Stephen, was originally from Liverpool, and her mother, Nano (née Booth), a college lecturer, came from Llandeilo in West Wales.[1][3][4] Her paternal great-grandfather emigrated from Ireland.[5] Mulligan has one sibling; an elder brother.[3][4] At the age of 3, she moved with her family from England to Germany after her father accepted the job of managing the European arm of Intercontinental Hotels. Due to her father's job, her family lived in expensive hotels for 8 years.[6] She was "quite shy" during her childhood[3] and a tomboy until the age of 15.[7] She was also "quite straight-laced" and very academic until age 14, having then become more interested in acting.[8]

Her interest in acting sparked from watching her brother perform in a school production of The King and I[3] (she would later participate in plays at her school) and attending Broadway plays as a teen.[9] Before acting professionally, she had once secretly applied to and been rejected by three drama schools specified on her UCAS application form.[3][7] After failing an audition, the rejections made her question whether to pursue an acting career and go through what she called a "confusing time". Aside from rejection, she had also questioned being an actress due to her parents' disapproval of pursuing a job in entertainment. They insisted she attend university and believed Mulligan's desire would wear off.[9] Around this time, she had a brief job as a barmaid at a local pub.[7] She later said that those negative experiences made her know how much she wanted to act.[10]


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Career

In 2004, at the age of 18, Mulligan began her acting career by winning the role of Kitty Bennett in Pride & Prejudice, the 2005 period piece film adaptation of the Jane Austen novel. She received the role with help from her school's headmistress, after Mulligan had written to her explaining that she did not want to go to university and asking for help in getting in touch with actor Julian Fellowes, who had spoken at Mulligan's school. After she met Fellowes, he introduced her to a casting agent who was looking to cast an unknown in the film.[7] Later that year, she appeared in a recurring role in the BAFTA award-winning BBC adaption of Charles Dickens' Bleak House, as orphan Ada Clare[11] and onstage in The Hypochondriac.[12] Among her 2007 projects were My Boy Jack, starring Daniel Radcliffe that features her in a supporting role. Mulligan identified with her role Elsie, who vociferously opposes her brother going to war.[11] She earned a Constellation Award for playing the main character Sally Sparrow in an episode of Doctor Who.[13] She rounded out 2007 by appearing in an acclaimed revival of The Seagull, in which she played Nina to Kristin Scott Thomas' Arkadina and Chiwetel Ejiofor's Trigorin. The Daily Telegraph said her performance was "quite extraordinarily radiating'" and The Observer called her "almost unbearably affecting."[11] While in the middle of the production, she had to have an appendectomy, preventing her from being able to perform for a week.[11] For her debut Broadway performance in the 2008 American transfer of The Seagull, she was nominated for a Drama Desk Award, but lost to Angela Lansbury.[14]

Mulligan with co-star Peter Sarsgaard at a premiere for An Education in October 2009

At 22, she was cast in her first leading role as 16 year old Jenny in the coming-of-age 2009 release drama An Education,[15] which got rave reviews and commissioned $26 million against a $7.5 million budget at the box office.[16] She received critical acclaim for her performance, as the press began referring to her as an "It girl".[17] Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly and Todd McCarthy of Variety both compared her performance to that of Audrey Hepburn.[15][18] Rolling Stone's Peter Travers described her as having given a "sensational, starmaking performance,"[19] while Claudia Puig of USA Today felt that Mulligan had one of the year's best performances,[20] and Toby Young of The Times felt she anchored the film.[21] Writing in The Guardian, Peter Bradshaw concluded that she gave a "wonderful performance."[22] For her work, she garnered Golden Globe, Academy Award and Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations, as well as receiving a British Academy Film Award. Mulligan was a recipient of the Shooting Stars Award from the 2009 Berlin International Film Festival[23] and received an BAFTA Rising Star Award nomination, which is voted on by the British public.[24]

She next starred in The Greatest (2010) as the pregnant girlfriend of a boy who dies; her involvement with the project helped it "tremendously", according to the director.[25] It opened to mostly indifferent reviews, with Ty Burr of the Boston Globe criticising it for being "grueling and gently contrived", but was more positive in his assessment of Mulligan.[26] After being selected to join The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences,[27] she won a British Independent Award for Never Let Me Go, an adaption of the 2005 Kazuo Ishiguro novel, which she starred in and narrated and was released in September 2010 - competing against her other project, the Oliver Stone-directed film Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.[24] The latter, a sequel to the 1987 movie, is about a new story of greed and power. Screened out of competition at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival,[28] it was her first major studio project.[29] She also provided vocals for the song "Write About Love" by Belle & Sebastian.[30] Mulligan returned to stage in Atlantic Theatre Company's off-Broadway play Through a Glass, Darkly from May 13 to July 3, 2011,[31] acting as the central character, a mentally unstable woman, to glowing praise from reviewers.[32]

Script adjustments were made to accommodate Mulligan as Irene, who was originally written as a Latina woman in her late twenties, in the 2011 neo-noir thriller movie Drive.[33] Mulligan began filming Steve McQueen's sex-addiction drama Shame alongside Michael Fassbender in New York in January 2011.[34] Both films will be shown at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival, with the former also been screened at Cannes and the latter at the Venice Film Festival. She will also star opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in the 2012 film adaption of The Great Gatsby playing the role of the superficial Daisy Buchanan.[35] Other upcoming projects for her include the lead roles in an adaptation of My Fair Lady and On Chesil Beach,[36] as well as a part in the science fiction project titled, Outback, developed by GK Films.[37]

Personal life

Mulligan dated American actor and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps co-star Shia LaBeouf from August 2009 to October 2010;[38] they were introduced by the film's director, Oliver Stone, prior to filming and began dating shortly after.[39]

In August 2011 she became engaged to Mumford & Sons leading man Marcus Mumford.[40]

Filmography

Film and television roles
Year Title Role Notes
2005 Pride & Prejudice Kitty Bennet
2005 Bleak House Ada Clare TV, 15 episodes
2006 The Amazing Mrs Pritchard Emily Pritchard TV, 6 episodes
2006–2007 Trial & Retribution X: Sins of the Father Emily Harrogate 2 episodes
2006 Agatha Christie's Marple: The Sittaford Mystery Violet Willett
2007 And When Did You Last See Your Father? Rachel
2007 Waking the Dead Sister Bridgid TV, 2 episodes
2007 Doctor Who Sally Sparrow TV, 1 episode: "Blink"
Constellation Award for Best Female Performance in a Science Fiction Television Episode
2007 My Boy Jack Elsie Kipling
2007 Northanger Abbey Isabella Thorpe
2009 Public Enemies Carole
2009 An Education Jenny
2009 Brothers Cassie Willis
2009 The Greatest Rose
2010 Never Let Me Go Kathy British Independent Film Award for Best Actress
Palm Springs International Film Festival for Breakthrough Performance Award
Women in Film and Television Award for Best Performance
Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Actress
Nominated—Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress
Nominated—Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
Nominated—San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress
2010 Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps Winnie Gekko Palm Springs International Film Festival for Breakthrough Performance Award
2011 Drive Irene
2011 Shame Sissy Hollywood Award for Best Supporting Actress
2012 The Great Gatsby Daisy Buchanan Filming
Stage roles
Year Title Role Notes
2005 The Hypochondriac Daisy
2007 The Seagull Nina Royal Court Theatre
2008 The Seagull Nina Broadway
2011 Through a Glass Darkly Atlantic Theater Company

References

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  2. ^ McMullen, Randy (2010-05-27). "People: Crystal Bowersox split with boyfriend day before 'Idol' finale". The Oakland Tribune. Bay Area News Group. Retrieved 2010-05-29.
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  5. ^ Anna Carey (2009-10-28). "Life lessons captured on film". The Irish Times. Irish Times Trust. Retrieved 2009-12-21.
  6. ^ Late Show With David Letterman. October 7, 2009. CBS.
  7. ^ a b c d Eunice Oh (2009-09-04). "Who Is Shia LaBeouf's New Gal Pal Carey Mulligan?". Time Warner Inc. Retrieved 2009-12-20.
  8. ^ Rob Carnevale (2009-11-03). "An Education - Carey Mulligan interview". Orange.co.uk. Retrieved 2009-12-21.
  9. ^ a b Mary Murphy (2009-11-11). "Carey Mulligan on her acting journey". The Hollywood Reporter. {{cite news}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)
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  36. ^ "Carey Mulligan set to play Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady remake". The Daily Telegraph. Telegraph Media Group Limited. 2010-03-25. Retrieved 2010-08-14.
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  40. ^ Marcus Mumford Gets Engaged to Carey Mulligan

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