Carey Hannah Mulligan - English actress

Carey Hannah Mulligan (born 28 May 1985) is an English actress. She made her film debut as Kitty Bennet in Pride & Prejudice (2005). She has had roles in several British television programmes such as Doctor Who, Bleak House, and Northanger Abbey. In 2008, she made her Broadway debut in the revival of Chekhov's The Seagull to critical acclaim.

In 2009, she gained widespread recognition for her performance as Jenny in An Education, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, and for which she won a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. She was also nominated for a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She has gone on to star in The Greatest,Never Let Me Go, Drive, Shame, The Great Gatsby, and Inside Llewyn Davis.

Mulligan co-starred in the critically acclaimed 2011 neo-noir thriller Drive, directed by Danish filmmaker Nicholas Winding Refn and starring Ryan Gosling and Albert Brooks. Mulligan was nominated for her second BAFTA award—Best Supporting Actress—for the film. Drive garnered a total of 4 BAFTA award nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director. Mulligan began filming Steve McQueen's sex-addiction drama Shame alongside Michael Fassbender in New York in January 2011. Drive debuted at 2011 Cannes Film Festival and Shamedebuted at 2011 Venice Film Festival, both to good reviews. Of her performance inShame, Rolling Stone film critic Peter Travers wrote, "Mulligan is in every way sensational."

She starred as Daisy Buchanan, opposite Leonardo DiCaprio, in The Great Gatsby, which was released in May 2013.Mulligan auditioned for the role of Daisy in the fall of 2010. While attending a Vogue fashion dinner in New York City in November 2010, she received the news that she landed the part from Luhrmann’s wife, Catherine Martin. In May 2012, Mulligan was a co-chair alongside Anna Wintour for the Gatsby-themed 2012 Met Ball Gala.

Mulligan will star in the upcoming Far from the Madding Crowd of Thomas Hardy's novel Far from the Madding Crowd for director Thomas Vinterberg and Fox Searchlight. She is also set to star in The Fury for director Sarah Gravron and screenwriter Abi Morgan, who previously worked with Mulligan on Shame.

In February 2014, Mulligan was announced as star in the revival of the play Skylight with Bill Nighy and Matthew Beard to be directed by Stephen Daldry at London's West End