List of Carey Mulligan performances

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).