Carey Hannah Mulligan is an English actress. Known for her repertoire of complex female characters, she has received various accolades, including a British Academy Film Award and a Critics’ Choice Movie Award, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards and a Tony Award.
In 2004, at the age of 19, Carey Mulligan began her acting on stage in the play Forty Winks at the Royal Court Theatre in London
Her first major appearance was playing Kitty Bennet in Pride & Prejudice (2005) alongside Keira Knightley, Judi Dench, and Donald Sutherland
About her Pride & Prejudice (2005) co-stars: We were like one big family. We took over the house. It was so much fun. Brenda Blethyn (Mrs Bennett) mummied us all – when we had days off she took us on day trips to a llama farm.
Making her Broadway debut, Mulligan starred in a revival of the Anton Chekhov classic The Seagull with Peter Sarsgaard and Kristin Scott Thomas in 2008
Carey Mulligan’s breakthrough role came as a 1960s schoolgirl in the coming-of-age drama film An Education (2009), for which she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
