Carey Mulligan's Real Name: Carey Hannah Mulligan

Quick answer: Carey Mulligan's full name is Carey Hannah Mulligan. She was born on May 28, 1985, in Westminster, London. She is a British actress who earned best actress Oscar nominations for An Education (2009), Promising Young Woman (2020), and Maestro (2023). She works under her birth name (Britannica; Library of Congress).

Real name and early life

Britannica's quick facts give her name "in full" as Carey Hannah Mulligan. The Library of Congress name authority files her as "Mulligan, Carey, 1985-." It cites "Carey Hannah Mulligan; born May 28, 1985 in Westminster, London" and notes that she has been an ambassador for the Alzheimer's Society and War Child.

Britannica says her mother was a university lecturer and her father a hotel executive. She spent part of her childhood in Germany and part in London. She was active in the drama department at Woldingham School in Surrey, a Roman Catholic girls' school. She was turned down by several drama schools and, over her parents' objections, chose acting over university.

Career highlights

Her first professional role was a narcoleptic teenager in Forty Winks at London's Royal Court Theatre (2004). Through Julian Fellowes, who had lectured at her school, she reached a casting assistant and landed the role of Kitty Bennet in Pride & Prejudice (2005). That year she also played Ada in the BBC's Bleak House. She won praise in a 2007 Royal Court revival of Chekhov's The Seagull, which moved to Broadway in 2008.

An Education (2009) won her the BAFTA for leading actress and her first Oscar nomination. She went on to Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, Never Let Me Go, Drive with Ryan Gosling, and Steve McQueen's Shame. In 2013 she played Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby and appeared in the Coens' Inside Llewyn Davis. Her Broadway run in Skylight (2015) earned a Tony nomination.

Later films include Far from the Madding Crowd, Suffragette, Mudbound, and Wildlife. Emerald Fennell's Promising Young Woman brought her second Oscar nomination. She played reporter Megan Twohey in She Said (2022), worked with Fennell again on Saltburn, and played Felicia Montealegre in Maestro, for her third nomination. Britannica also lists Spaceman (2024) and the second season of Netflix's Beef. She has been married to musician Marcus Mumford since 2012.

Name notes for searchers

Hannah is her middle name, and she has no stage name. LOC and Britannica both confirm the middle name. Search results mentioning "Mumford" refer to her husband's surname; she is still credited as Carey Mulligan.