Carey Mulligan is an English actress. She has received several accolades based on her style of acting including a British Academy Film Award, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and a Tony Award.
Born in Westminster, London, United Kingdom. When she turned three, she and the family migrated to Germany. As a teenager, she was educated at Woldingham School, an independent school in Surrey.
At age 16, Mulligan attended a production of Henry V starring Kenneth Branagh. His performance emboldened her and reinforced her belief that she wanted to pursue a career in acting.
In the 2004 play, Forty Winks at the Royal Court Theatre in London Mulligan made her stage debut and her film debut in Joe Wright’s 2005 film adaptation of the Jane Austen novel Pride & Prejudice.
Since then Mulligan has starred in many movies and tv shows including Promising Young Woman, The Great Gatsby, She Said, Drive, Shame, An Education, Pride & Prejudice, Far from the Madding Crowd, Never Let Me Go, The Dig, Suffragette, Mudbound, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, Wildlife, Collateral, Maestro, Brothers, The Greatest, Northanger Abbey, Public Enemies, Spaceman, My Boy Jack, Inside Llewyn Davis, and more.
Mulligan will star as Felicia Montealegre in Bradley Cooper’s directorial Maestro. The film is set to be released on Netflix in 2023.