Carey Mulligan has already cemented her status as one of the most consistently brilliant actors in the industry today. Over the past two decades, the 38-year-old Londoner has worked with quiet precision, bringing depth, complexity, and intelligence to every part she takes on, from a messy lounge singer in Shame to the barnstorming lead of Promising Young Woman. Ahead of the 2024 Oscars, where she’s nominated for best actress for her masterful performance in Maestro, we look back at Mulligan’s formidable career through her 16 best films to date.
Pride & Prejudice (2005)
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In her first big-screen turn as the overeager and impressionable Kitty Bennet, the younger sister of Jane (Rosamund Pike) and Elizabeth (Keira Knightley) in Joe Wright’s rhapsodic adaptation of Jane Austen, Mulligan shines. Beyond her dimples, ringlets, and fits of giggles is a conflicted teenager.
An Education (2009)
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