Carey Mulligan

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Carey Mulligan (2013)

Carey Hannah Mulligan (born May 28, 1985 in London ) is a British actress .

Private life

Carey Mulligan was born in Westminster to an English hotel manager and a Welsh college professor. When Carey was three years old, her family moved to Germany , where her father ran the European branch of an international hotel chain. The family stayed in Germany for five years. She and her older brother Owen were attending the International School of Düsseldorf (ISD) during the time when she had a very good knowledge of German. Carey Mulligan lived only in expensive hotels for a total of eight years and, according to her own statements, developed into a shy girl who looked rather boyish up to the age of 15. Back in England she attended the Woldingham School .

During the filming of Wall Street: Money Doesn't Sleep , Mulligan began a relationship with fellow actor Shia LaBeouf , but they both ended in October 2010. In July 2011 she got engaged to Marcus Mumford , the front man and namesake of the British folk rock band Mumford & Sons . The two married in April 2012 and had a daughter in September 2015. The second child was born in September 2017.

Career

After starring in a production of Sweet Charity in her senior year at Woldingham School , she decided to give acting a try.

She got her first film role in the 2005 film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice (Original: Pride & Prejudice ) based on Jane Austen , in which she played Kitty Bennet. She then worked as a stage actress at the Royal Court Theater in London . She has guest roles in numerous British TV productions, including Waking the Dead , Bleak House and Doctor Who .

2009 Mulligan was for her performance in Lone Scherfig's movie An Education with the National Board of Review Award. In this drama, she slipped into the role of a schoolgirl from the London suburbs who was introduced to the cultural life of the British capital in the early 1960s and who began to rethink her future plans. For this role she received the BAFTA Award as well as a Golden Globe and Oscar nomination.

In the sequel Wall Street: Money Doesn't Sleep, shot by director Oliver Stone in 2009 , Carey Mulligan plays the main actor's daughter Michael Douglas in the female lead . In the film Drive by Nicolas Winding Refn , she played the leading female role alongside Ryan Gosling , for which she was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress. In September 2011 she began filming a 3-D remake of The Great Gatsby based on the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, directed by Baz Luhrmann .

This was followed by work on Inside Llewyn Davis , directed by Ethan and Joel Coen . In 2015, she starred as Maud Watts in Suffragettes .

Filmography (selection)

Carey Mulligan at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival

Awards and nominations

year organization category Movie result
2007 Ian Charleson Awards Honorable Mention The Seagull Won
2008 Drama Desk Awards Best leading actress in one piece The Seagull Nominated
2009 BAFTA Best main actress An Education Won
2009 National Board of Review Best main actress An Education Won
2009 British Independent Film Awards Best Actress in a British Independent Film An Education Won
2009 Academy Awards Best main actress An Education Nominated
2009 Critics' Choice Movie Awards Best main actress An Education Nominated
2009 Golden Globe Awards Best Actress (Drama) An Education Nominated
2009 Screen Actors Guild Best main actress An Education Nominated
2009 Screen Actors Guild Award Best ensemble An Education Nominated
2010 British Independent Film Awards Best Actress in a British Independent Film Never Let Me Go Won
2010 Saturn Awards Best main actress Never Let Me Go Nominated
2011 BAFTA The best supporting actress Drive Nominated
2011 British Independent Film Awards The best supporting actress Shame Nominated
2011 Critics' Choice Movie Awards The best supporting actress Shame Nominated
2012 Drama Desk Awards Best leading actress in one piece Through a Glass Darkly Nominated
2015 Drama Desk Awards Best leading actress in one piece Skylight Nominated
2015 Drama League Awards Best leading actress in one piece Skylight Nominated
2015 Tony Awards Best leading actress in one piece Skylight Nominated
2015 British Independent Film Awards Best Actress in a British Independent Film Suffragette Nominated
2015 Hollywood Film Awards Best Actress of the Year Suffragette Won
2015 Satellite Awards Best main actress Suffragette Nominated
2015 Women Film Critics Circle Best main actress Suffragette Won
2018 Evening Standard Theater Awards The Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress Girls & Boys Nominated

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Elena Albers: Star portrait Carey Mulligan. What you should know - biography. In: gala.de. Retrieved on January 4, 2015 : “When she saw her big brother Owen on stage at a school performance at the age of six, she immediately knew: I want that too. [...] I went to school in the "International School of Düsseldorf". After five years, however, the family moved back to Great Britain [...]. "
  2. ^ Rachel Abramowitz: Carey Mulligan gets 'An Education'. In: Los Angeles Times . October 8, 2009, accessed on January 4, 2015 (American English): “The daughter of a hotel manager who bounced between living in Germany and England, Mulligan says she started acting at 6 in plays at her international school in Germany. 'I never played the lead part in anything. I always played the character parts and the men, 'she says. The Wicked Witch in 'The Wizard of Oz', John Proctor in 'The Crucible'. 'I tried to re-create Daniel Day-Lewis,' she says, laughing, and explains that until the age of about 14, 'I was a musical theater geek. That's all I wanted to do. ' Can she sing? 'I can carry a tune but I'm not bound for the West End stage.' "
  3. ↑ Mariam Schaghaghi: Carey Mulligan: "I can only speak German when drunk" . Online at Abendblatt.de on October 21, 2010, accessed on August 24, 2013.
  4. ↑ Eunice Oh: Who Is Shia LaBeouf's New Gal Pal Carey Mulligan? In: People . Time Warner Inc., September 4, 2009, accessed November 27, 2011 .
  5. ↑ Colin Robertson: Marcus Mumford to marry Carey Mulligan on thesun.co.uk of July 26, 2011 (English), accessed November 27, 2011
  6. ↑ Katie Nicholl: Mumford and wife: Carey Mulligan and her folk star are married among the hay bales in a barn - by groom's father on dailymail.co.uk April 21, 2012, accessed April 23, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Mulligan, Carey
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mulligan, Carey Hannah (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actress
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH London , England , UK