Carey Hannah Mulligan is a British film, television, and theatre actress and singer. Active since 2004, she has been nominated for Academy, Golden Globe, and Tony Awards, and has won a BAFTA. Mulligan is a London native and spent the early years of her life in Germany before returning to England when she was eight years old. She developed an interest in acting after watching her brother in a school play. Subsequently, she became involved in school theatre and held the position of the head of the drama department. In 2005, she made her screen debut as Kitty Bennet in the romance drama ‘Pride & Prejudice’. That year, she was also cast in the BBC miniseries ‘Bleak House’. In 2008, she appeared in her first Broadway production, ‘The Seagull’. Her breakthrough role came about in the coming-of-age drama ‘An Education’. Mulligan has since appeared in ‘Never Let Me Go’, ‘Drive’, ‘Shame’, ‘The Great Gatsby’, ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’, ‘Far from the Madding Crowd’, ‘Suffragette’, and ‘Mudbound’. As a singer, she has contributed to the soundtracks of three of her films, ‘Shame, ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’, and ‘Far from the Madding Crowd’. Mulligan is involved with multiple charities, including War Child and Alzheimer’s Society.