1. Carey Hannah Mulligan was born on 28 May 1985 and is a British actress.
47 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 three Academy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, and a Tony Award.
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Carey Mulligan was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2025 for services to drama.
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Carey Mulligan made her Broadway debut in the revival of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull.
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Carey Mulligan's career progressed with roles in Never Let Me Go, Drive, Shame, Inside Llewyn Davis, Far from the Madding Crowd, Suffragette, Mudbound, Wildlife, and She Said, and she had her highest-grossing release in the period drama The Great Gatsby.
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Carey Mulligan received further Academy Award nominations for her portrayals of a vigilante in the black comedy Promising Young Woman and Felicia Montealegre in the biopic Maestro.
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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, with whom she has three children.
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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 work as a hotel manager took the family to West 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 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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Carey Mulligan's breakthrough came when, at 24, she was cast in her first leading role as Jenny, a teenage school girl seduced by an older man in the 2009 independent coming of age film An Education.
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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 continued to earn acclaim for her portrayal of a wide range of complex characters.
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In 2015, 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, Anne Thompson of IndieWire wrote that her performance "proves that she can carry a movie" adding, "Carey Mulligan is excellent: her face has a pinched girlish prettiness combined with a shrewd, slightly schoolmistressy intelligence".
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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 starred 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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Carey Mulligan was nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance.
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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 portrayed Megan Twohey, one of the real life New York Times reporters who broke the Harvey Weinstein scandal.
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Carey Mulligan then starred as Felicia Montealegre in Bradley Cooper's directorial Maestro, a biopic about the relationship between Montealegre and her husband Leonard Bernstein.
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Carey Mulligan played a small part in Fennell's second feature Saltburn, for which she was deemed a "scene-stealer" by Variety.
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Carey Mulligan's next release was an adaptation of the science fiction novel Spaceman of Bohemia for Netflix, co-starring Adam Sandler.
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Carey Mulligan will have a voice role in Laika's stop motion animated feature Wildwood, based on the fantasy novel of the same name.
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Carey Mulligan dated Shia LaBeouf, with whom she co-starred in the film Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, from 2009 to 2010.
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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.
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Carey Mulligan has received numerous accolades, including a British Academy Film Award and a Critics' Choice Movie Award, in addition to nominations for three Academy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, five Screen Actors Guild Awards and a Tony Award.
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Carey Mulligan was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2025 New Year Honours for services to drama.