Carey Mulligan Biography

British actress and one of the most prominent British actresses of her generation. Let’s read about Carey Mulligan family, education, career and relationships…

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Name	Carey Hannah Mulligan
Parents	Nano Booth and Stephen Mulligan
Movies	The Great Gatsby, Promising Young Woman...
Spouses	Marcus Mumford (d. 2012)
Children	3
Height	5' 6'' feet

Age of Carey Mulligan:

Carey Mulligan age is 39 years old as she was born on May 28, 1985 in Westminster , London, United Kingdom.

Carey Mulligan in early age

Family of Carey Mulligan:

She was a daughter of Nano Booth and Stephen Mulligan. Her mother was a university lecturer and her father was a hotel manager. She claims Irish ancestry. Carey Mulligan is a younger sister of Owain who served in the British Army in Iraq and Afghanistan.

At three years of age, her family migrated to West Germany for her father's work, and both she and her brother studied at an international school in Düsseldorf. After five years, they returned to the UK.

She got her initial taste of acting at six years old when she watched her brother in a school play of The King and I. This excitement caused her to beseech the teachers to let her take part in the play, and as a result, she was put in the choir.

Education of Carey:

She attended Woldingham School in Surrey, a private school, and began working in the drama department. She even stepped up to become a student director for quite a number of plays and musicals, as well as running workshops for younger children.

In opposition to her parents’ desire that she should go through the normal university education, by age seventeen she had nevertheless applied for three drama schools. Although at first she didn’t succeed, A Talk, however, did want to end her determination. After a talk at her school by actor Julian Fellowes, Mulligan approached him requesting advice on becoming an actor. In response to very unsupportive advice, she eventually wrote to Mr. Fellowes expressing her desire to act in an effort to earn an invitation to dinner with Mr. Fellowes and his wife and, in the words of Ms. Fellowes, actress Molly Shannon met casting assistant Mary Colquhoun, who helped her land an audition for Pride and Prejudice, where she eventually played Kitty Bennet.

Actress:

Her stage debut was the 2004 play Forty Winks at London’s Royal Court Theatre, and her film debut occurred a year later in Pride and Prejudice during which she played a supporting character. She has also acted in a number of television programmes, including Bleak House (2005) and Northanger Abbey (2007). In 2007, she appeared in Doctor Whose episode titled, Blink.

Movies of Carey Mulligan:

In 2008, she made her Broadway debut as part of the cast of the production of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull. Her turning point was in the film

Carey Mulligan in film an education

where she starred as a student named Jenny Mellor set in the 1960s (2009), a role that earned her the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award for Best Leading Actress and an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.

She went on to feature in a number of successful films including; Never Let Me Go (2010), Drive (2011), Shame (2011), Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), Far from the Madding Crowd (2015), Suffragette (2015), Mudbound (2017), Wildlife (2018) and She Said (2022). She starred in The Great Gatsby which is her most successful film commercially to date.

She starred on Broadway in the play Skylight by David Hare, for which she was nominated for a Tony Award in 2015. In 2020, she starred in Promising Young Woman and the Bradley Cooper directed film Maestro in 2023, in which she featured as Felicia Montealegre. She received nominations for Academy Awards for each performance. The film is a biography that focuses on the relationship between Montealegre and her husband, musician Leonard Bernstein (Cooper played the role of her husband).

Couples and children of Carey:

She was in a relationship with Shia LaBeouf, who worked with her in the film Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.

The lead singer of Mumford & Sons, Marcus Mumford, became her husband on April 21, 2012. Three children have been born to them.

Carey Mulligan with husband

Carey Mulligan with family

"It has been very difficult for me to get rid of the guilt of not always being with my children."

Carey Mulligan

Summary:

She is an English actress who has gained notice for many of her performances, particularly for her portrayal in An Education (2009), which earned her multiple awards including an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. Along with Some Voices (2004), In The Loop (2009), Drive (2011), Shame (2011), Promising Young Woman (2020), and The Great Gatsby (2013), all received critical acclaim, earning her a third nomination for an Oscar award.