Carey Mulligan
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| Carey Mulligan | |
| Born | May 28, 1985 (age 21) |
Carey Hannah Mulligan[1] (born 28 May 1985) is a British actress. Her credits include the recent film Pride & Prejudice and the 2005 BBC adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel Bleak House.
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[edit] Background
Mulligan has said that her passion and love for acting was first kindled at her old school Woldingham School, where she took part in a school production of Sweet Charity in her final year, and where she was also a student head of drama.
| “ | I had wanted to act for a really long time, but other schools I had been to did not have such good drama departments. Everyone was so encouraging. You could do anything you wanted to, although you had to take it seriously. If you missed rehearsals, you were out.[2] | ” |
[edit] Career
Mulligan's career started with a number of theatre productions, including a production of Forty Winks at the Royal Court Theatre. She got her first major appearance in Joe Wright's 2005 adaptation of Pride and Prejudice playing Kitty Bennet alongside Keira Knightley, Brenda Blethyn and Donald Sutherland. Mulligan then went on to play orphan Ada Clare in the BBC's big-budget adaptation of Bleak House.
In 2006 she appeared in BBC series The Amazing Mrs Pritchard, as well as appearing in episodes of ITV's Marple and Trial & Retribution.
In 2007 she returned to the theatre to appear in a Royal Court production of The Seagull, which ran from January to March. During the show's run she developed acute appendicitis which prevented her from performing in several shows.[citation needed] She also appeared in an ITV adaptation of Northanger Abbey and an episode of Waking the Dead.
Mulligan has roles in two as yet unreleased productions: a film adaptation of Blake Morrison's memoir And When Did You Last See Your Father? and an episode in the third series of the BBC's Doctor Who to be shown on 2 June 2007.
Mulligan has also narrated a number of programmes for the CBeebies channel.[citation needed]
[edit] Credits
Television
- Doctor Who, Blink (2007): Unknown
- Northanger Abbey (2007): Isabella Thorpe
- Waking the Dead (2007): Sister Brigid
- The Amazing Mrs Pritchard (2006): Emily Pritchard
- Trial & Retribution X: Sins of the Father (2006): Emily Harrogate
- Marple: The Sittaford Mystery (2006): Violet Willett
- Bleak House (2005): Ada Clare
Theatre
- The Seagull, Royal Court Theatre, (2007): Nina
- The Hypochondraic, Almeida Theatre (2005): Angélique
- Forty Winks, Royal Court Theatre (2004): Hermia
- Towerblock Dreams, Riverside Studios (2004): Fran
Films
- And When Did You Last See Your Father? (2007): Rachel (in production) [3]
- Pride and Prejudice (2005): Kitty Bennett
[edit] References
- ^ Births, Marriages & Deaths Index of England & Wales, 1984-2004. Gives name at birth as "Carey Hannah Mulligan".
- ^ Actress Carey's pride and joy
- ^ Yahoo! Movies: And When Did You Last See Your Father?
