Carey Mulligan

Carey Hannah Mulligan (born 28 May 1985) is a British actress. Known for her performances on stage and screen, she has received numerous accolades, including a BAFTA Award, in addition to nominations for three Academy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards and a Tony Award. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2025 for services to drama.

Mulligan made her film debut with a supporting role in Joe Wright's romantic drama Pride & Prejudice (2005) and has since received three Academy Award for Best Actress nominations for her roles as a 1960s schoolgirl in the coming-of-age film An Education (2009), a rebellious woman in the black comedy Promising Young Woman (2020) and Felicia Montealegre in the biopic Maestro (2023). She is also known for her roles in Never Let Me Go (2010), Drive (2011), Shame (2011), Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), Far from the Madding Crowd (2015), Suffragette (2015), Mudbound (2017), Wildlife (2018), and She Said (2022). Her highest-grossing release to date is the period drama The Great Gatsby (2013).

On television she has taken roles in the drama series Bleak House (2005), the television film Northanger Abbey (2007), and the Netflix / BBC series Collateral (2018). She starred in and served as a producer for the second season of the Netflix anthology series Beef (2026), for which she received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Limited Series and Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie.

On stage, Mulligan made her debut in Kevin Elyot's play Forty Winks (2004) at the Royal Court Theatre. She made her Broadway debut playing Nina in the 2008 revival of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull. She returned to Broadway playing a teacher confronted by a former lover in the revival of David Hare's Skylight (2015) for which she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play.

Mulligan has been an ambassador for the Alzheimer's Society since 2012, and an ambassador for War Child since 2014. Since 2012 she has been married to singer-songwriter Marcus Mumford, with whom she has three children.