Carey Mulligan
Biography: Carey Hannah Mulligan (born 28 May 1985) is an English actress. She has received various accolades, including a British Academy Film Award, in addition to nominations for three Academy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, and a Tony Award. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2024. Mulligan made her professional acting debut on stage in Kevin Elyot's play Forty Winks (2004) at the Royal Court Theatre. She made her film debut with a supporting role in Joe Wright's romantic drama Pride & Prejudice (2005), followed by diverse roles in television, including the drama series Bleak House (2005), the television film Northanger Abbey (2007), and guest starring in the Doctor Who episode "Blink" (2007). She made her Broadway debut in the revival of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull (2008). Mulligan's breakthrough role came as a 1960s schoolgirl in the coming-of-age film An Education (2009), for which she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress and received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Her career progressed with roles in 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), and she had her highest-grossing release in the period drama The Great Gatsby (2013). For her performance in the Broadway revival of David Hare's Skylight (2015), she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. She received further Academy Award nominations for her portrayals of a vigilante in the black comedy Promising Young Woman (2020) and Felicia Montealegre in the biopic Maestro (2023).
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Birthday: May 28, 1985
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The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007-02-03
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
Overview: Boasting an amazing selection of the most watched, most influential and most highly acclaimed programmes ever made, The 50 Greatest Television Dramas presents a long overdue assessment of the rich heritage television drama has to offer. Channel 4 invited over 200 of Britain's top television drama professionals – writers, directors, producers and commissioners – to take part in an exclusive poll to discover what they consider the finest dramas ever produced.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-02-03
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Pride & Prejudice
2005-09-16
Pride & Prejudice
Overview: A story of love and life among the landed English gentry during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is a gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters, but if he dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met, so the family's future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters making good marriages.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-16
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Public Enemies
2009-07-01
Public Enemies
Overview: Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downtrodden public, but he's also a thorn in the side of J. Edgar Hoover and the fledgling FBI. Desperate to capture the elusive outlaw, Hoover makes Dillinger his first Public Enemy Number One and assigns his top agent, Melvin Purvis, the task of bringing him in dead or alive.
Genres: Crime History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-07-01
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An Education
2009-10-29
An Education
Overview: Despite her sheltered upbringing, Jenny is a teen with a bright future; she's smart, pretty, and has aspirations of attending Oxford University. When David, a charming but much older suitor, motors into her life in a shiny automobile, Jenny gets a taste of adult life that she won't soon forget.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-29
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My Boy Jack
2007-11-11
My Boy Jack
Overview: Author Rudyard Kipling and his wife search for their 17-year-old son after he goes missing during WWI.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-11-11
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The Greatest
2009-02-07
The Greatest
Overview: Teenagers Rose and Bennett were in love, and then a car crash claimed Bennett's life. He left behind a grieving mother, father and younger brother, and Rose was left all alone. She has no family to turn to for support, so when she finds out she's pregnant, she winds up at the Brewer's door. She needs their help, and although they can't quite admit it, they each need her so they can begin to heal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-02-07
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Slapper
2008-06-21
Slapper
Overview: A young boy watches a fight in a crowded bar: a masked man versus the people’s champ. But rather than boxing, this is an adult, brutal version of ‘Slaps’ – slaps that can break a man’s hand. Three years ago, James’ alcoholic father Michael left him and his mother, but promised he’d be back to make them proud – now, James believes the man in the mask is his father, returning as a hero, but things are not what they seem...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-06-21
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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
2010-09-20
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Overview: As the global economy teeters on the brink of disaster, a young Wall Street trader partners with disgraced former Wall Street corporate raider Gordon Gekko on a two tiered mission: To alert the financial community to the coming doom, and to find out who was responsible for the death of the young trader's mentor.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-09-20
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Never Let Me Go
2010-03-18
Never Let Me Go
Overview: As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy spend their childhood at an idyllic and secluded English boarding school. As they grow into adults, they must come to terms with the complexity and strength of their love for one another while also preparing for the haunting reality awaiting them.
Genres: Drama Romance Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-03-18
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When Did You Last See Your Father?
2007-10-05
When Did You Last See Your Father?
Overview: The story of a son's conflicting memories of his dying father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-10-05
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The Great Gatsby
2013-05-09
The Great Gatsby
Overview: An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Long Island-set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche existence, where obsession, madness, and tragedy await.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-05-09
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Drive
2011-09-15
Drive
Overview: Driver is a skilled Hollywood stuntman who moonlights as a getaway driver for criminals. Though he projects an icy exterior, lately he's been warming up to a pretty neighbor named Irene and her young son, Benicio. When Irene's husband gets out of jail, he enlists Driver's help in a million-dollar heist. The job goes horribly wrong, and Driver must risk his life to protect Irene and Benicio from the vengeful masterminds behind the robbery.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-15
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Northanger Abbey
2007-10-24
Northanger Abbey
Overview: A young woman's penchant for sensational Gothic novels leads to misunderstandings in the matters of the heart.
Genres: Romance Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-10-24
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The Ballad of Wallis Island
2025-03-28
The Ballad of Wallis Island
Overview: Eccentric lottery winner Charles lives alone on a remote island but dreams of hiring his favourite musician, Herb McGwyer, to play an exclusive, private gig. Unbeknownst to Herb, Charles has also hired Herb’s ex-bandmate and ex-girlfriend, Nell, with her new husband in tow, to perform the old favourites. As tempers flare and old tensions resurface, the stormy weather traps them all on the island and Charles desperately looks for a way to salvage his dream gig.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-03-28
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Shame
2011-10-02
Shame
Overview: Brandon, a thirty-something man living in New York, eludes intimacy with women but feeds his deepest desires with a compulsive addiction to sex. When his younger sister temporarily moves into his apartment, stirring up bitter memories of their shared painful past, Brandon's life, like his fragile mind, gets out of control.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-10-02
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Inside Llewyn Davis
2013-10-18
Inside Llewyn Davis
Overview: In Greenwich Village in the early 1960s, gifted but volatile folk musician Llewyn Davis struggles with money, relationships, and his uncertain future.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-18
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Mamma Mia! Here We Go Yet Again
2019-08-09
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Yet Again
Overview: Jennifer Saunders and a host of famous faces star in this hilarious Comic Relief reimagining of the hit movie featuring some of ABBA's biggest hits as well as a peek behind the scenes.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-08-09
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Far from the Madding Crowd
2015-04-23
Far from the Madding Crowd
Overview: Based on the literary classic by Thomas Hardy. Bathsheba Everdene, attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a sheep farmer, captivated by her fetching willfulness; Frank Troy, a handsome and reckless Sergeant; and William Boldwood, a prosperous and mature bachelor. This timeless story of Bathsheba's choices and passions explores the nature of relationships and love – as well as the human ability to overcome hardships through resilience and perseverance.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-04-23
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Suffragette
2015-10-16
Suffragette
Overview: Based on true events about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-16
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Brothers
2009-12-02
Brothers
Overview: When his helicopter goes down during his fourth tour of duty in Afghanistan, Marine Sam Cahill is presumed dead. Back home, brother Tommy steps in to look over Sam’s wife, Grace, and two children. Sam’s surprise homecoming triggers domestic mayhem.
Genres: Drama Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-12-02
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Maestro
2023-11-22
Maestro
Overview: A towering and fearless love story chronicling the lifelong relationship between Leonard Bernstein and Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein. A love letter to life and art, Maestro at its core is an emotionally epic portrayal of family and love.
Genres: Drama Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-11-22
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Blood on Benefits
2007-05-15
Blood on Benefits
Overview: A man named Gabriel wakes up in an unfamiliar white room and finds himself bleeding and chained to the wall. His gaze stops on the dark figure opposite him.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-15
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National Theatre Live: Skylight
2014-07-24
National Theatre Live: Skylight
Overview: On a bitterly cold London evening, schoolteacher Kyra Hollis receives an unexpected visit from her former lover, Tom Sergeant, a successful and charismatic restaurateur whose wife has recently died. As the evening progresses, the two attempt to rekindle their once passionate relationship only to find themselves locked in a dangerous battle of opposing ideologies and mutual desires.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-07-24
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Inside 'Inside Llewyn Davis'
2014-03-11
Inside 'Inside Llewyn Davis'
Overview: A 42-minute making-of documentary, "Inside 'Inside Llewyn Davis,'" produced and directed by David Prior. A number of cast and key crew people are interviewed, but, not surprisingly, the Coens, music supervisor T-Bone Burnett, and lead Oscar Isaac dominate the proceedings.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-03-11
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Wildwood
Wildwood
Overview: Set beyond Portland’s city limits, in Wildwood. You’re not supposed to go there. You’re not even supposed to know it exists. But Prue McKeel is about to enter this enchanted wonderland. Her baby brother Mac has been taken by a murder of crows into the forest’s depths, and she – along with her hapless classmate, Curtis – is going to get him back. Prue might think she’s too old for fairytales, but she’s just found herself at the center of one. One filled with strange talking animals, roguish bandits, and powerful figures with the darkest intentions.
Genres: Animation Family Fantasy Horror Adventure
Original Language: en
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Saltburn
2023-11-16
Saltburn
Overview: Struggling to find his place at Oxford University, student Oliver Quick finds himself drawn into the world of the charming and aristocratic Felix Catton, who invites him to Saltburn, his eccentric family's sprawling estate, for a summer never to be forgotten.
Genres: Drama Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-11-16
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Mudbound
2017-11-16
Mudbound
Overview: In the post–World War II South, two families are pitted against a barbaric social hierarchy and an unrelenting landscape as they simultaneously fight the battle at home and the battle abroad.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-11-16
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Wildlife
2018-09-23
Wildlife
Overview: 14-year-old Joe is the only child of Jeanette and Jerry — a housewife and a golf pro — in a small town in 1960s Montana. Nearby, an uncontrolled forest fire rages close to the Canadian border, and when Jerry loses his job (and his sense of purpose) he decides to join the cause of fighting the fire, leaving his wife and son to fend for themselves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-09-23
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An Uncivil War
An Uncivil War
Overview: A drama about the fight to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
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A Christmas Carol
2020-12-04
A Christmas Carol
Overview: The radical new take on Dickens’ classic seeks both to exhume the original story’s gritty commentary on social inequality and the corrupting influence of greed, and to breathe new life into the lyricism of the original text by setting its scenes to extraordinary tableaux of modern dance.
Genres: Drama Animation Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-12-04
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Promising Young Woman
2020-12-13
Promising Young Woman
Overview: A young woman, traumatized by a tragic event in her past, seeks out vengeance against those who crossed her path.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-12-13
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The Dig
2021-01-14
The Dig
Overview: As WWII looms, a wealthy widow hires an amateur archaeologist to excavate the burial mounds on her estate. When they make a historic discovery, the echoes of Britain's past resonate in the face of its uncertain future.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-01-14
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Miranda: My Such Fun Celebration
2020-01-01
Miranda: My Such Fun Celebration
Overview: Miranda Hart and the cast of her sitcom come together to celebrate the show's tenth anniversary with a music-filled, star-studded spectacular from the London Palladium.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-01-01
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Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall
2021-03-15
Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall
Overview: Inspired by "Letters of Note", the bestselling anthology compiled by Shaun Usher, and "To the Letter" by Simon Garfield, Letters Live is a series of curated, live events that celebrate the enduring power of literary correspondence. Performed by a remarkable and surprise cast each night, Letters Live is a unique event that is heartbreaking, euphoric, hilarious and inspiring in equal measure. Those who have previously attended Letters Live will know how memorable these evenings are. In addition, a portion of the proceeds from each show are channeled towards a number of carefully selected literacy charities to support the important work they do.
Genres: TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-03-15
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Spaceman
2024-02-23
Spaceman
Overview: Six months into a solo mission, a lonely astronaut confronts the cracks in his marriage with help from a mysterious creature he discovers on his ship.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-02-23
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She Said
2022-11-17
She Said
Overview: New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a generation — a story that helped launch the #MeToo movement and shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-11-17
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