Conversations with Carey Mulligan

Career Q&A with Carey Mulligan in honor of her performance in SUFFRAGETTE. Moderated by Jenelle Riley, Variety.

Carey Mulligan currently stars in SUFFRAGETTE. The stirring film is inspired by the early-20th-century campaign of the Suffragettes, who were activists for Women's Suffrage - the right of women to vote. The cast includes also includes Helena Bonham Carter, Golden Globe Award nominee Brendan Gleeson, British Independent Film Award winner Anne-Marie Duff, BAFTA Award winner Ben Whishaw, and three-time Academy Award winner Meryl Streep.

Carey was nominated for an Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, Critics' Choice Movie Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award for her starring role as Jenny Mellor in Lone Scherfig's Best Picture Academy Award nominee An Education. The portrayal earned her the National Board of Review Award, the BAFTA Award, and the BIFA (British Independent Film Award) for Best Actress, among other honors.

She made her film debut in Joe Wright's Pride & Prejudice, also released by Focus Features. Among her other early films were Anand Tucker's When Did You Last See Your Father?; Shana Feste's The Greatest; Michael Mann's Public Enemies; and Jim Sheridan's Brothers.

She starred in Mark Romanek's Never Let Me Go, for which she won the Best Actress BIFA and was an Evening Standard British Film Award nominee; Oliver Stone's Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps; Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive, for which she was a BAFTA Award nominee; and Steve McQueen's Shame. The latter was her first film with Suffragette screenwriter Abi Morgan, bringing Ms. Mulligan Critics' Choice Movie Award, Evening Standard British Film Award, and BIFA nominations, among other honors.

Moviegoers have also seen her in Joel and Ethan Coen's Inside Llewyn Davis; Thomas Vinterberg's Far from the Madding Crowd; and Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby, which won two Academy Awards and for which she received an Australian Film Institute Award nomination as Best Actress.

Ms. Mulligan's telefilm credits include Brian Kirk's My Boy Jack and Jon Jones' Northanger Abbey. She costarred in the BBC miniseries Bleak House, directed respectively by Justin Chadwick and Susanna White, in which Natalie Press of Suffragette also starred.

In 2014, she made her West End stage debut starring with Bill Nighy and Matthew Beard in a revival of David Hare's Olivier Award-winning play Skylight, directed by Stephen Daldry. In 2015, the same creative team reconvened to stage the production on Broadway, and it won the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play; Ms. Mulligan received Drama Desk and Tony Award nominations for her performance. She was previously a Drama Desk Award nominee for her starring role in the Atlantic Theater Company's 2011 production of Through a Glass Darkly, at the New York Theatre Workshop; the off-Broadway adaptation of Ingmar Bergman's screenplay was adapted by Jenny Worton and directed by David Leveaux. She was also a Drama Desk Award nominee for her 2008 Broadway debut in Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, directed by Ian Rickson at the Walter Kerr Theatre, after having originated the role in the production's 2007 Royal Court Theatre staging.

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