Carey Hannah Mulligan was born on 28 May 1985 and is an English actress.
37 Facts About Carey Mulligan
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Carey Mulligan has received various accolades, including a British Academy Film Award, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and a Tony Award.
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Carey Mulligan made her Broadway debut in the revival of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, which earned her a Drama Desk Award nomination.
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Carey Mulligan gained further acclaim for her performances in Never Let Me Go, Drive, Shame, The Great Gatsby, Inside Llewyn Davis, Far from the Madding Crowd, Suffragette, Mudbound, Wildlife, and Carey Mulligan Said.
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Carey Mulligan has been an ambassador for the Alzheimer's Society since 2012, and an ambassador for War Child since 2014.
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Carey Mulligan has been married to singer-songwriter Marcus Mumford since 2012.
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Carey Hannah Mulligan was born on 28 May 1985 in London, to Nano and Stephen Mulligan.
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Carey Mulligan's parents met while they were both working in a hotel in their twenties.
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When Carey Mulligan was three, her father's hotel manager work took the family to Germany.
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Carey Mulligan was the student head of the drama department there, performing in plays and musicals, conducting workshops with younger students, and helping put on productions.
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Carey Mulligan's performance emboldened her and reinforced her belief that she wanted to pursue a career in acting.
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Carey Mulligan wrote a letter to Branagh asking him for advice.
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Carey Mulligan's parents disapproved of her acting ambitions and wished for her to attend a university like her brother.
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Carey Mulligan briefly talked to him after the lecture and asked him for advice on an acting career.
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Carey Mulligan auditioned three times, and was eventually given the role of Kitty Bennet.
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In 2004 Carey Mulligan made her stage debut in the play Forty Winks at the Royal Court Theatre in London.
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Carey Mulligan rounded out 2007 by appearing in an acclaimed stage revival of The Seagull, in which she played Nina alongside Kristin Scott Thomas and Chiwetel Ejiofor.
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Over a hundred actresses auditioned for the part, but Carey Mulligan's audition impressed Scherfig the most.
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Carey Mulligan won a British Independent Award for her performance.
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Carey Mulligan played the central character, a mentally unstable woman, and received glowing praise from reviewers.
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Carey Mulligan auditioned for the role of Daisy in late 2010.
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Carey Mulligan followed the production when it transferred to Broadway at the John Golden Theatre in April 2015.
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Carey Mulligan has continued to earn acclaim for her portrayal of a wide range of complex characters.
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In 2015, Carey Mulligan was praised for her roles in two acclaimed films released that year.
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Carey Mulligan starred in Thomas Vinterberg's film adaptation of Thomas Hardy's novel Far from the Madding Crowd with Matthias Schoenaerts, Tom Sturridge, and Michael Sheen, as well as Sarah Gavron's Suffragette with Helena Bonham Carter, Ben Whishaw, Brendan Gleeson and Meryl Streep.
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Carey Mulligan stepped back into television as a Detective Inspector in Collateral, a BBC Two limited series, receiving plaudits from American and British critics.
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Carey Mulligan praised creator Sir David Hare for seamlessly accommodating her pregnancy into the script.
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Carey Mulligan appeared off Broadway in the solo show, Girls and Boys at the Minetta Lane Theatre.
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Carey Mulligan's performance was praised, with The New York Times calling it "perfection".
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In 2020, Carey Mulligan starred in Emerald Fennell's black comedy thriller film Promising Young Woman, alongside Bo Burnham and Alison Brie.
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Carey Mulligan served as an executive producer on the film, which debuted at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival to great acclaim.
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In 2021, Carey Mulligan replaced Nicole Kidman in The Dig, a film about the events of the 1939 excavation of Sutton Hoo, co-starring Ralph Fiennes and Lily James.
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Carey Mulligan donated the Vionnet gown she wore at the 2010 BAFTAs to the Curiosity Shop, which sells its donations to raise money for charity.
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Carey Mulligan became the ambassador of the Alzheimer's Society in 2012, with the goal of raising awareness and research funding for Alzheimers and dementia.
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Carey Mulligan's grandmother lived with Alzheimer's disease for the final 17 years of her life, during which she no longer recognised Mulligan.
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Carey Mulligan helped host and participated in the 2012 Alzheimer's Society Memory Walk and was one of the sponsored Alzheimer's Society runners in the 2013 Nike Run to the Beat half-marathon in London.
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In 2014, Carey Mulligan became an ambassador for the charity War Child and visited the Democratic Republic of Congo in this role.