English actress Carey Mulligan made her stage debut in the Kevin Elyot play Forty Winks (2004) at the Royal Court Theatre. The following year she made her television debut in the BBC One series Bleak House (2005), an adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel of the same name. She expanded to films with a supporting role in the Joe Wright-directed period romance Pride and Prejudice (2005), an adaptation of Jane Austen's novel of the same name. She then came to prominence playing an English schoolgirl in the coming of age film An Education (2009), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress.
Mulligan continued to garner praise for such films as the dystopian drama Never Let Me Go (2010), the action film Drive (2011), the psychological drama Shame (2011), the dark musical Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), the romantic drama Far from the Madding Crowd (2015), the historical drama Mudbound (2017), the coming of age film Wildlife (2018), and the biographical drama She Said (2021). She also played Daisy Buchanan in Baz Luhrman's The Great Gatsby (2013), an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel of the same name, which ranks as her highest-grossing release. [1] She received further Academy Award nominations for Best Actress for playing a vengeful woman in the dark comedy Promising Young Woman (2020) and Felicia Montealegre in the biographical drama Maestro (2023).
On stage, she played Nina in the revival of Anton Chekov's The Seagull both on the West End in 2007 and on Broadway in 2008. For her role in the revival of the David Hare play Skylight she received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. She has also acted off Broadway in the Ingmar Bergman adaptation Through a Glass Darkly (2011) and the solo show Girls & Boys (2018).
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
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2005 | Pride & Prejudice | Kitty Bennet | [2] | |
2007 | Blood on Benefits | Emma | Short film | [3] |
And When Did You Last See Your Father? | Rachel | [4] | ||
2008 | Slapper | Susan | Short film | [5] |
2009 | The Greatest | Rose | [6] | |
Brothers | Cassie Willis | [7] | ||
Public Enemies | Carol Slayman | [8] | ||
An Education | Jenny Mellor | [9] | ||
2010 | Never Let Me Go | Kathy H | [10] | |
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps | Winnie Gekko | [11] | ||
2011 | Drive | Irene | [12] | |
Shame | Sissy Sullivan | [13] | ||
2013 | The Great Gatsby | Daisy Buchanan | [14] | |
Inside Llewyn Davis | Jean Berkey | [15] | ||
2015 | Far from the Madding Crowd | Bathsheba Everdene | [16] | |
Suffragette | Maud Watts | [17] | ||
2017 | Mudbound | Laura McAllan | [18] | |
2018 | Wildlife | Jeanette Brinson | [19] | |
2020 | Promising Young Woman | Cassandra "Cassie" Thomas | Also executive producer | [20] |
A Christmas Carol | Belle (voice) | [21] | ||
2021 | The Dig | Edith Pretty | [22] | |
2022 | She Said | Megan Twohey | [23] | |
2023 | Saltburn | Poor Dear Pamela | [24] | |
Maestro | Felicia Montealegre | [25] | ||
2024 | Spaceman | Lenka | [26] | |
2025 | The Ballad of Wallis Island | Nell Mortimer | Also executive producer | [27] |
2026 | Wildwood † | TBA (voice) | In production | [28] |
Narnia: The Magician's Nephew † | Mabel Kirke | Filming | [29] |
† | Denotes productions that have not yet been released |
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
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2005 | Bleak House | Ada Clare | Miniseries (15 episodes) | [30] |
2006 | The Amazing Mrs. Pritchard | Emily Pritchard | 6 episodes | [31] |
Agatha Christie's Marple | Violet Willett | Episode: "The Sittaford Mystery" | [32] | |
Trial & Retribution | Emily Harrogate | 2 episodes | [33] | |
2007 | Waking the Dead | Sister Bridgid | [34] | |
Northanger Abbey | Isabella Thorpe | Television film | [35] | |
My Boy Jack | Elsie Kipling | [36] | ||
Doctor Who | Sally Sparrow | Episode: "Blink" | [37] | |
2014 | The Spoils of Babylon | Lady Anne York (voice) | 2 episodes | [38] |
2015 | The Walker | Sunny | 8 episodes | [39] |
2018 | Collateral | DI Kip Glaspie | Miniseries (4 episodes) | [40] |
2019 | My Grandparents' War | Herself | Episode: "Episode 4" | [41] |
2021 | Saturday Night Live | Herself (host) | Episode: "Carey Mulligan/Kid Cudi" | [42] |
TBA | Beef † | TBA | Filming | [43] |
Year | Title | Role | Venue | Ref. |
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2004 | Forty Winks | Hermia | Royal Court Theatre, London | [44] |
2005–06 | The Hypochondriac | Angelique | Almeida Theatre, London | [45] |
2007 | The Seagull | Nina Zarechnaya | Royal Court Theatre, London | [46] |
2008 | Walter Kerr Theatre, Broadway | [47] | ||
2011 | Through a Glass Darkly | Karin | Atlantic Theatre Company, Off-Broadway | [48] |
2014 | Skylight | Kyra Hollis | Wyndham's Theatre, West End | [49] |
2015 | Golden Theatre, Broadway | [50] | ||
2018 | Girls & Boys | Performer | Royal Court Theatre, London | [51] |
Minetta Lane Theatre, Off-Broadway | [52] |
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
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2022 | I Hear Fear | Narrator | [53] | |
2023 | The Foxes of Hydesville | Leah Fox | Also executive producer | [54] |
Year | Title | Album |
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2010 | "Write About Love" (Belle and Sebastian featuring Carey Mulligan) | Write About Love |
2011 | "Theme from New York, New York" | Shame |
2013 | "Five Hundred Miles" (with Justin Timberlake and Stark Sands) | Inside Llewyn Davis |
2014 | "Didn't Leave Nobody but the Baby" (with Gillian Welch and Rhiannon Giddens) | Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of Inside Llewyn Davis |
2015 | "Let No Man Steal Your Thyme" (solo or with Michael Sheen) | Far from the Madding Crowd |
2023 | "Façade: Sir Beelzebub" (with Zachary Booth) | Maestro |
2025 | "Morning Evening" | The Ballad of Wallis Island (with Tom Basden as McGwyer Mortimer) |
"Lover, Please Stay" | ||
"Angels" | ||
"Give Your Love" | ||
"Slip Away" | ||
"Raspberry Fair" | ||
"Summer's Here" | ||
"Sweetheart" | ||
"Awake" | ||
"Inside a Whale" | ||
"Our Love" | ||
"Sky Child" | ||
"The Sea Silver" | ||
"Into the Night" | ||
"The Ballad of Wallis Island" | ||