Carey Mulligan

At 38 years old, Carey Mulligan has this physical status:

Carey Hannah Mulligan (born 28 May 1985) is a British actress.

In 2004, she made her professional acting debut on stage in the Kevin Elyot play Forty Winks at the Royal Court Theatre.

Kitty Bennet appeared in Pride & Prejudice (2005), followed by supporting roles in television, including Bleak House (2005) and "Blink" (2007), a Doctor Who episode.

In 2008, she made her Broadway debut in The Seagull, earning her an Ian Charleson Commendation Award. Jenny Mellor was the best actor in a Leading Role on BAFTA in 2009, and she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress.

She was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a British Independent Film for her role in the action film Drive (2011) and the drama Shame (2011), and she was nominated for the Best Actress in a Supporting Role. In 2015, she was nominated for the Best Lead Actress in a Play for her appearance in David Hare's Skylight revival alongside Bill Nighy.

In 2018, she appeared in the crime miniseries Collateral.

In 2018, she appeared in Paul Dano's debut directorial film Wildlife. Mulligan has been an ambassador for Alzheimer's Society since 2012 and a War Child ambassador since 2014.

Marcus Mumford has been married to her since 2012, and the two children are now married.

Early life and education

Carey Mulligan was born in London on May 28, 1985, to Nano (née Booth) and Stephen Mulligan. Her father, a hotel manager, is of Irish descent and hails from Liverpool. Her mother, a university lecturer, hails from Llandeilo, Wales. When they were both working in a hotel in their twenties, her parents met. Denzil Booth, the grandmother of her maternal grandfather, was on HMS Indefatigable during the Battle of Okinawa and then sailing into Tokyo Bay at the end of World War II.

Mulligan's mother's hotelier job brought the family to Germany when she was three years old. She and her brother attended the International School of Düsseldorf while living there. When she was eight years old, she and her family returned to the United Kingdom. She attended Woldingham School, Surrey's independent school, as an adolescent.

When she was six years old, her sister was a student in a school production of The King and I. She begged for participation in the role during rehearsals and begged for his teachers to let her participate. They welcomed her to the chorus. She was heavily involved in theatre as an adolescent at Woldingham School. She was the student head of the drama department, appeared in plays and musicals, led workshops with younger students, and assisted with the productions.

She appeared in Henry V, which starred Kenneth Branagh, when she was 16 years old. His appearance emboldened her and reinsed her that she wanted to pursue a career in acting. She wrote a letter to Branagh requesting his assistance. "I explained that my parents didn't want me to act, but that I felt it was my calling in life." "Kenneth says that if you feel such a strong desire to be an actress, you must be an actor," Branagh's sister said.

Mulligan's parents disapproved of her acting ambitions and wished for her to attend a university like her brother. She applied to three London drama schools rather than the universities she had intended to attend at, but she was not allowed to attend them at age 17. Actor/screenwriter Julian Fellowes gave a lecture at the school about the film Gosford Park during her final year at Woldingham College. Mulligan briefly spoke with him after the lecture and asked for guidance on an acting career. Fellowes attempted to dissuade her from the work, but instead, she suggested she "marry a lawyer." Undeterred, she sent Fellowes a letter in which she said she was serious about acting and that it was their calling in life.

Emma Mulligan, a fellow's wife, welcomed Mulligan to a dinner she and her husband were hosting for young aspiring actors a few weeks later. It enabled Mulligan's introduction and a casting assistant that culminated in an audition for a part of Pride and Prejudice. She appeared three times and was eventually given the role of Kitty Bennet. She served as a pub barmaid and an errand-runner for Ealing Studios in between acting roles in her late teens and early twenties.

Personal life

Mulligan is married to Marcus Mumford, the lead singer of Mumford & Sons. They were pen pals growing up and reconnected as adults. They married on April 21, 2012, just a few weeks after finishing film Inside Llewyn Davis, which was in which they were both involved. They have two children.

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Career

Mulligan appeared on stage for the first time at the Royal Court Theatre in London in 2004. In Joe Wright's 2005 film adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice starring Kitty Bennet and Keira Knightley, she made her film debut the following year. She debuted in BAFTA's award-winning BBC adaptation of Charles Dickens' Bleak House later this year, winning the role of orphanage Ada Clare in her BAFTA award-winning BBC adaptation of Bleak House.

My Boy Jack, starring Daniel Radcliffe, another Jane Austen adaptation, Northanger Abbey starring Felicity Jones, and the Doctor Who episode "Blink," which earned her the Constellation Award for Best Female Performance in a 2007 Science Fiction Television Episode, were among her 2007 projects. She closed out 2007 by appearing in an acclaimed stage revival of The Seagull in which she appeared alongside Kristin Scott Thomas and Chiwetel Ejiofor. According to the Daily Telegraph, her appearance was "quite radially radiating" and The Observer called her "most affecting." She had to have an appendectomy, preventing her from performing for a week while in the middle of the production. She was nominated for a Drama Desk Award in 2008, but she lost to Angela Lansbury for Blithe Spirit.

Jenny was the protagonist of her first leading role in the 2009 independent film An Education, directed by Danish filmmaker Lone Scherfig and written by Nick Hornby, when she was 16 years old. More than a hundred actresses applied for the role, but Mulligan's audition impressed Scherfig the most. The film and her performance received rave reviews, and she was nominated for an Academy Award, Screen Actors Guild, Golden Globe, Critics Choice, and the BAFTA Award. Both Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly and Todd McCarthy of Variety compared her appearance to Audrey Hepburn's. Peter Travers of Rolling Stone described her as having given a "sensational, starmaking appearance" in BAFTA Rising Star Award nomination, which is voted on by the British public.

She was accepted into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2010. In the same year she appeared in Kazuo Ishiguro's acclaimed book Never Let Me Go with Keira Knightley and Andrew Garfield, she was invited to participate in the film adaptation. She received a British Independent Award for her work. Money Never Sleeps starred in the Oliver Stone-directed film Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps in the same year. It was her first major studio project, and it was priced out of contention at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. Belle & Sebastian's "Write About Love" album later this year, she also performed.

She appeared in Ingmar Bergman's Through a Glass, Darkly, from 13 May to July 2011, the Atlantic Theater Company's off-Broadway play adaptation of Ingmar Bergman's Through a Glass, Darkly, returned to the stage. Mulligan played the central role, a mentally fragile woman, and was lauded by reviewers. Mulligan's performance, according to Ben Brantley, a theater critic for The New York Times, was "acting of the highest order"; he also described her as "extraordinary" and "one of the finest actresses of her generation."

In 2011, Mulligan co-starred in two critically acclaimed films. With Ryan Gosling, there will be two phases in Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive. The second film in Steve McQueen's sex-addiction drama Shame starring Michael Fassbender Both films were big film festival hits. Drive debuted at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival and Shame debuted at the 2011 Venice Film Festival, drawing rave reviews. She was nominated for her second BAFTA award, Best Supporting Actress, for the film Drive, which also received a total of 4 BAFTA award nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director. She was given critical acclaim for her role in Shame, as well as a British Independent Film Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

Daisy Buchanan appeared in Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby in 2013, opposite Leonardo DiCaprio, which was released in May 2013. In late 2010, Mulligan auditioned for the role of Daisy. Catherine Martin, Baz Luhrmann's wife, told her she had the opportunity while attending a Vogue fashion dinner in New York City in November. She served as a co-chair for the 2012 Met Ball Gala themed Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations in May 2012. She appeared in Inside Llewyn Davis' black comedy alongside Oscar Isaac and Ethan Coen's black comedy. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival to rave reviews.

She appeared in the London revival of the play Skylight with Bill Nighy and Matthew Beard, directed by Stephen Daldry at Wyndham's Theatre in London's West End in 2014. It received the 2014 Evening Standard Theatre Award for Revival of the Year, and was nominated for the 2014 Olivier Award for Best Revival. She followed the production from the John Golden Theatre in April 2015, when it was transferred to Broadway. The transfer was a huge success. The play received a Tony Award for Best Revival, and she received her first Tony Award nomination for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play.

Mulligan has earned accolades for her portrayal of a variety of complex characters. Mulligan was praised in 2015 for her appearances in two critically acclaimed films that year. She appeared in Thomas Vinterberg's film adaptation of Thomas Hardy's book Far From the Madding Crowd, Tom Sturridge, and Michael Sheen, as well as Sarah Gavron's Suffragette with Helena Bonham Carter, Ben Whishaw, Brendan Gleeson, and Meryl Stony.

Dee Rees directed Netflix's Mudbound, a film that debuted in 2017. Critical praise was given to the film. "Mudbound presents a well-acted, finely detailed snapshot of American history, whose scenes of rural class conflict resonate far beyond their period setting." Rotten Tomatoes has a 97% approval rating with the consensus reading. Rees received four Academy Award nominations, including Best Adapted Screenplay.

She appeared in Paul Dano's directorial debut film Wildlife in 2018. Dano and Zoe Kazan's script was written, and it is an adaptation of Richard Ford's book of the same name. Critics lauded the film's debut at the 71st Cannes Film Festival, and critics raved it. According to a 94% vote on Rotten Tomatoes, "Wildlife's portrayal of a family in crisis is beautifully directed by director Paul Dano" and brought the film's career-best performance to life by Carey Mulligan." Mulligan received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Actress for her appearance.

Mulligan's performance as a Detective Inspector in Collateral, a BBC Two limited series, brought her recognition from American and British commentators. Mulligan lauded showrunner Sir David Hare for seamlessly adapting her pregnancy to the script.

In the solo performance, Girls and Boys at the Minetta Lane Theatre, Mulligan appeared off Broadway. Dennis Kelly wrote the script and directed Lyndsey Turner. Her results were lauded, with The New York Times calling her "perfection." Mulligan, who was promoting Stephen Colbert's Late Show with Stephen Colbert, talked about being wounded when the curtain was going down. Bradley Cooper, who was in the audience, visited her backstage and escorted her to urgent care.

Mulligan appeared in Emerald Fennell's black comedy thriller film Promising Young Women in 2020, alongside Bo Burnham and Alison Brie. She has also appeared as an executive producer on the film, which premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival to acclaim. "The film's score is a 90 percent," Rotten Tomatoes says, with a critic consensus reading "Promising Young Women" is Emerald Fennell's debut as a boldly provocative, timely drama, as well as a career highlight for Carey Mulligan. The film's release was postponed to December 25, 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. She was nominated for Best Actress by the Academy Award for Best Actress and several other accolades, as well as the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress. Mulligan devoted her award to Helen McCrory after winning Best Female Lead at the 36th Independent Spirit Awards.

Mulligan replaced Nicole Kidman in The Dig, a film about the 1939 excavation of Sutton Hoo, starring Ralph Fiennes and Lily James. On January 20, 2021, it was limited to the United Kingdom and followed by a Netflix exclusive on January 29 2021.

Mulligan will appear in Bradley Cooper's second directorial effort Maestro, a biopic based on Leonard Bernstein's life, alongside Cooper and Jeremy Strong in November 2020. "I was struck by Carey ever since I saw her onstage many years ago, and I haven't missed a performance of hers since," Cooper wrote in a tweet. I am humbled to serve alongside such a diverse team as well as such a compassionate person in Carey. In 2023, Netflix is expected to begin with the film.

Mulligan appeared in Netflix's adaptation of Jaroslav Kalfa's science fiction book Spaceman of Bohemia, directed by Johan Renck, in April 2021. In Maria Schrader's She Said, Mulligan is also expected to portray Megan Twohey, one of the original New York Times journalists who broke the Harvey Weinstein scandal, as well as Shen Twohey, one of the book of the same name. The film is scheduled to be released on November 18th, 2022.

Laika's voice cast of their new stop motion animated feature Wildwood, led by Mulligan, announced on August 25th, 2022. Travis Knight is directing the film, which is based on the 2011 children's fantasy book of the same name.

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