List of Carey Mulligan performances

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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.

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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).

Acting credits

Film

YearTitleRoleNotesRef.
2005 Pride & Prejudice Kitty Bennet [2]
2007Blood on BenefitsEmmaShort film [3]
And When Did You Last See Your Father? Rachel [4]
2008SlapperSusanShort 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" ThomasAlso 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 MortimerPost-production [27]
Wildwood Alexandra (voice)In production [28]
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Television

YearTitleRoleNotesRef.
2005 Bleak House Ada ClareMiniseries (15 episodes) [29]
2006 The Amazing Mrs. Pritchard Emily Pritchard6 episodes [30]
Agatha Christie's Marple Violet WillettEpisode: "The Sittaford Mystery" [31]
Trial & Retribution Emily Harrogate2 episodes [32]
2007 Waking the Dead Sister Bridgid2 episodes [33]
Northanger Abbey Isabella ThorpeTelevision film [34]
My Boy Jack Elsie Kipling Television film [35]
Doctor Who Sally SparrowEpisode: "Blink" [36]
2014 The Spoils of Babylon Lady Anne York (voice)2 episodes [37]
2015The WalkerSunny8 episodes [38]
2018 Collateral DI Kip GlaspieMiniseries (4 episodes) [39]
2019 My Grandparents' War HerselfEpisode: "Episode 4" [40]
2021 Saturday Night Live Herself (host)Episode: "Carey Mulligan/Kid Cudi" [41]

Stage

YearTitleRoleVenueRef.
2004Forty WinksHermia Royal Court Theatre, London [42]
2005–06 The Hypochondriac Angelique Almeida Theatre, London [43]
2007 The Seagull Nina Zarechnaya Royal Court Theatre, London [44]
2008 Walter Kerr Theatre, Broadway [45]
2011 Through a Glass Darkly Karin Atlantic Theatre Company, Off-Broadway [46]
2014 Skylight Kyra Hollis Wyndham's Theatre, West End [47]
2015 Golden Theatre, Broadway [48]
2018 Girls & Boys Performer Royal Court Theatre, London [49]
Minetta Lane Theatre, Off-Broadway [50]

Podcast

YearTitleRoleNotesRef.
2022I Hear FearNarrator [51]
2023The Foxes of HydesvilleLeah FoxAlso executive producer [52]

Discography

YearTitleAlbum
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" (with Michael Sheen) Far from the Madding Crowd
2023"Façade: Sir Beelzebub" (with Zachary Booth) Maestro

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