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"We'll always have this island... and your beautiful music." Focus Features has revealed the official trailer for a new British musical called The Ballad of Wallis Island, arriving in theaters this March. It's set to premiere at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival kicking off next week in Utah, before it hits select US theaters in just a months. "He's getting the band back together." The Ballad of Wallis Island follows Charles (Tim Key), an eccentric lottery winner who lives alone on an island and dreams of getting his favorite musicians, Mortimer-McGwyer (Carey Mulligan & Tom Basden) back together. His fantasy turns into reality when the bandmates and former lovers accept his invitation to play a private show at his home on Wallis Island. Old tensions resurface as Charles tries desperately to salvage his dream gig. The three of them star together on this beautiful island in this goofy, charming, sentimental musical comedy about getting back together. Sundance adds: "actresses Carey Mulligan and Sian Clifford to come play in their sandbox, creating a tale so humorous and lovely that you'll be humming its songs long after the credits roll." This looks sweet & funny.

Here's the first official trailer for James Griffiths' film The Ballad of Wallis Island, from YouTube:

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The Ballad of Wallis Island Film

Intro via Sundance: "Eccentric lottery winner, Charles, dreams of getting his favorite musicians, McGwyer Mortimer, back together. His fantasy turns into reality when the bandmates and former lovers accept his invitation to play a private show at his home on Wallis Island. Old tensions resurface as Charles tries desperately to salvage his dream gig. [The festival adds:] There is no more picturesque location to set a charming British comedy than this fictional remote Welsh island. It’s a romantic locale that sets the scene for the remarkable chemistry that longtime comedy partners Tom Basden and Tim Key (Two Films About Loneliness, 2015 Sundance Film Festival), who write and star here, have developed with each other." The Ballad of Wallis Island is directed by the British filmmaker James Griffiths, making his first feature film after directing mostly for TV including episodes of "Wrecked", "A Million Little Things", "Maternal", "Bad Sisters" previously. The screenplay is written by Tom Basden and Tim Key. Produced by Rupert Majendie, Carey Mulligan, Tom Basden, Tim Key, James Griffiths, Sarah Monteith, Laurence Brown, Stephen Kellier, Yana Georgieva. This is premiering at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival this month. Focus Features will then debut The Ballad of Wallis Island in theaters starting on March 28th, 2025 coming soon. Look any good?

Carey Mulligan is tapping into her offscreen rock roots with buzzy indie, “The Ballad of Wallis Island.”

Mulligan, who is married to Mumford & Sons founder Marcus Mumford, plays a musician in the Focus feature. The official synopsis reads: “‘The Ballad of Wallis Island’ follows Charles (Tim Key), an eccentric lottery winner who lives alone on a remote island and dreams of getting his favorite musicians, McGwyer Mortimer (Tom Basden and Mulligan) back together. His fantasy turns into reality when the bandmates and former lovers accept his invitation to play a private show at his home on Wallis Island. Old tensions resurface as Charles tries desperately to salvage his dream gig.”

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Sian Clifford and Akemnji Ndifornyen round out the cast.

“Here We Go” sitcom star Basden and Key co-wrote the feature and also star in the Focus Features release. James Griffiths directs the comedy, which is set on the fictional titular Welsh island.

Rupert Majendie produces the film, with Mulligan, Griffiths, Basden, and Key executive producing. Mulligan will next star in Season 2 of “Beef” alongside Oscar Isaac, Charles Melton, Cailee Spaeny, Yuh-Jung Youn, and Song Kang-Ho. She has had a series of Netflix projects recently, appearing in both “Spaceman” and “Maestro” for the platform.

“The Ballad of Wallis Island” will have its world premiere at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival on January 25 screening in the Premieres section. Additional Sundance titles in that program include “All That’s Left of You,” “April & Amanda,” “Come See Me in the Good Light,” “It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley,” “Jimpa,” “Last Days,” The Librarians,” Mary Bronstein’s “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You” (produced by Josh Safdie and starring Rose Byrne, A$AP Rocky, and Conan O’Brien), and Bill Condon’s “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” led by Jennifer Lopez.

“The movies are emotional,” Sundance Director of Programming Kim Yutani told IndieWire, citing “The Ballad of Wallis Island” in particular as a beloved palette cleanser. “They’re intense, but then they’re also balanced by those films that are lighter, like ‘The Ballad of Wallis Island.’ So it’s always looking at what we have and creating the balance through a curated program.”

“The Ballad of Wallis Island” premieres March 28 in limited theaters. Check out the trailer below.

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A musical reunion becomes the gig from Hell in the new trailer for The Ballad of Wallis Island. Carey Mulligan stars in the new comedy from director James Griffiths. Focus Features will release the film in theaters on February 28, 2025. Griffiths is a veteran of TV, producing and directing series like Black-ish, Stumptown, and A Million Little Things. The Ballad of Wallis Island is his second feature film, after directing the Nick Frost/Rashida Jones dance comedy Cuban Fury in 2014.

In the trailer, folk musician Herb McGwyer (Tom Basden) is subjected to a number of surprises. He's been hired to play a gig on a remote island by an eccentric millionaire (Tim Key), but the island is considerably more rustic than he was expecting, and the audience of "less than a hundred" he was expecting turns out to be an audience of one, in the form of his benefactor. But worst of all, it won't be a solo gig — he'll be playing alongside his ex-bandmate and ex-lover Nell Mortimer (Mulligan), who's arrived with her new husband, Michael (Akemnji Ndifornyen). When a storm traps them all on the island, they'll all have to come to terms with their pasts. The film also stars Sian Clifford.

Who Are the Stars of 'The Ballad of Wallis Island'?
After breaking out in An Education, Mulligan has starred in a wide variety of notable films, including Drive, Inside Llewyn Davis, Promising Young Woman, and Maestro. She was most recently seen in the Adam Sandler science fiction drama Spaceman. She will lend her voice to Travis Knight's latest stop-motion animated feature, Wildwood, later this year. Key is a regular in the British comedy scene, best known for playing the sidekick of Alan Partridge, Steve Coogan's inept TV host. He recently starred in See How They Run and Wicked Little Letters, and can be seen later this year in Bong Joon-ho's Mickey 17 and in Greg Daniels' The Office follow-up, The Paper.

Basden is best-known for starring in and creating the sitcom Plebs; he recently starred on the series Here We Go and Mandy. Clifford played Claire, the long-suffering sister of the title character on Fleabag, and recently appeared in Young Woman and the Sea. She is next set to star in the musical melodrama Mother Mary alongside Anne Hathaway. The Ballad of Wallis Island is an expansion of the 2007 short film The One and Only Herb McGwyer Plays Wallis Island, which was also directed by Griffiths and written by Key and Basden. Basden, Key, Griffiths, and Mulligan all executive produced The Ballad of Wallis Island; it was produced by Rupert Majendie.

The Ballad of Wallis Island will hit theaters on March 28, 2025. Stay tuned to Collider for future updates, and watch the new trailer above.

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The Ballad of Wallis Island
Comedy
Release Date
January 25, 2025
Director
James Griffiths
Cast
Carey Mulligan , Tom Basden , Tim Key , Sian Clifford , Akemnji Ndifornyen
Runtime
99 minutes
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Focus Features
What happens when an eccentric lottery winner gets his favorite band, now broken up, to play a show on his private island? Well, it hardly goes as planned, but because of that, “The Ballad Of Wallis Island” will surely be a favorite at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.

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Carey Mulligan, Tim Key, and Tom Basden star in the upcoming comedy, which hits theaters in early Spring. Read on for an official synopsis, courtesy of Focus Features:

The Ballad of Wallis Island follows Charles (Tim Key), an eccentric lottery winner who lives alone on a remote island and dreams of getting his favorite musicians, Mortimer-McGwyer (Carey Mulligan and Tom Basden), back together. His fantasy quickly turns into reality when the bandmates and former lovers accept his invitation to play a private show at his home on Wallis Island. Old tensions resurface as Charles tries desperately to salvage his dream gig.

Along with Mulligan, Basden, and Key, “The Ballad Of Wallis Island” also stars Sian Clifford and Akemnji Ndifornyen.

James Griffiths directs a script by Key and Basden for “The Ballad Of Wallis Island.” Rupert Majendie produces the film. Initially titled “One For The Money,” Griffiths’ film was retitled after Focus acquired its worldwide rights.

“The Ballad Of Wallace Island” has its world premiere at Sundance on January 25. The film then hits theaters later this year on March 28. Watch a trailer for the upcoming comedy below.
Focus Features has shared The Ballad of Wallis Island trailer for its newest comedy movie, starring Oscar nominee Carey Mulligan. It is expected to make its world premiere later this month at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. This will then be followed by its theatrical release on Friday, March 28.

“The film tells the of Charles, an eccentric lottery winner who lives alone on a remote island and dreams of getting his favorite musicians, Mortimer-McGwyer back together,” reads the official synopsis. “His fantasy quickly turns into reality when the bandmates and former lovers accept his invitation to play a private show at his home on Wallis Island. Old tensions resurface as Charles tries desperately to salvage his dream gig.”

Check out The Ballad of Wallis Island trailer below (watch more trailers):

Who is in The Ballad of Wallis Island trailer?
The video features Mulligan as a musician who gets stuck on an island with her ex after being invited by a wealthy fan. Mulligan is also joined by Tom Basden, Tim Key, Sian Clifford, and Akemnji Ndifornyen.

The Ballad of Wallis Island is directed and produced by James Griffiths from a screenplay written by Tom Basden (Plebs) and Tim Key (See How They Run). Mulligan will be starring alongside Basden, Key, Sian Clifford (Fleabag), and Akemnji Ndifornyen (The Queen’s Gambit). The film is executive produced by Mulligan, Key, Basden, Sarah Monteith, Laurence Brown, Stephen Kelliher, and Yana Georgieva, with Rupert Majendie producing.

Mulligan’s most recent performance was in 2024’s sci-fi drama Spaceman, which was led by Adam Sandler. Besides the upcoming comedy, the acclaimed actress will next be seen in the second season of Netflix’s Beef with Oscar Isaac and in Laika’s long-in-development animated movie Wildwood.
The Ballad of Wallis Island
Directed by James Griffiths
Screenplay by Tom Basden
Tim Key
Produced by Rupert Majendie
Starring
Carey Mulligan
Tom Basden
Tim Key
Cinematography G. Magni Ágústsson
Edited by Quin Williams
Music by Adem Ilhan
Production
company
Baby Cow Productions
Distributed by Focus Features (United States)
Universal Pictures (international)
Release dates
January 25, 2025 (Sundance)
March 28, 2025 (United States)
Running time 99 minutes
Country United Kingdom
Language English
The Ballad of Wallis Island is an upcoming film produced by Baby Cow Productions and starring Carey Mulligan, Tom Basden and Tim Key. Basden and Key co-wrote the script. James Griffiths is directing with Rupert Majendie producing.

The film is scheduled to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 25, 2025, followed by a limited theatrical release in the United States on March 28, 2025, by Focus Features.

Synopsis
An eccentric millionaire hires his favourite musician to perform for him on his remote desert island. He secretly also hires a former bandmate and ex-girlfriend of the musician. However tensions rise as a storm traps them on the island.[1]

Cast
Carey Mulligan as Nell Mortimer
Tim Key as Charles
Tom Basden as Herb McGwyer
Sian Clifford
Akemnji Ndifornyen as Michael
Production
The project began as a short film Key and Basden made with James Griffiths and produced by Moxie Pictures. The One and Only Herb McGwyer Plays Wallis Island won best short film at The Edinburgh International Film Festival and was nominated for the 2008 BAFTA Award for Best Short Film.[2][3][4]

The feature film, initially entitled One For the Money, had Rupert Majendie as producer with Bankside Films representing sales.[5] Focus Features subsequently acquired worldwide rights to the project, which was later retitled The Ballad of Wallis Island, with Universal Pictures handling the international release on its behalf.[6]

Principal photography was scheduled for Wales in 2023.[7][8][9]

Release
The Ballad of Wallis Island is set to premiere at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival on January 25, 2025, followed by a limited theatrical release in the United States on March 28, 2025.[10][11]

References
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Wiseman, Andreas (May 4, 2023). "Carey Mulligan, Tom Basden & Tim Key To Star In Comedy 'One For The Money' For Steve Coogan's Baby Cow & Bankside Films — Cannes Market". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on May 4, 2023. Retrieved May 16, 2023.
2008 Bafta Short Films Awards
Edinburgh International Film Festival Awards History Archived 1 October 2009 at the Portuguese Web Archive
Booth, Ned (May 4, 2023). "One For The Money': Carey Mulligan, Tom Basden & Tim Key To Star In Upcoming Comedy Based on Basden & Key's BAFTA-Nominated Short". The Playlist. Retrieved May 16, 2023.
Yossman, K.J. (April 2, 2024). "Carey Mulligan Comedy 'The Ballad of Wallis Island' Acquired by Focus Features (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved April 2, 2024.
Singer, Maya (October 10, 2023). "Carey Mulligan on Going "All In" With Bradley Cooper for Maestro". Vogue. Retrieved January 11, 2024.
Kundu, Tamal (July 15, 2023). "Carey Mulligan's 'One for the Money' to Shoot in Wales This Year". The Cinemaholic. Retrieved January 11, 2024.
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Carey Mulligan
CBE

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Born Carey Hannah Mulligan
28 May 1985 (age 39)
London, England
Occupation Actress
Years active 2004–present
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Carey Hannah Mulligan CBE (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 the 2025 New Year Honours for services to drama.

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).

Mulligan has been an ambassador for the Alzheimer's Society since 2012, and an ambassador for War Child since 2014. She has been married to singer-songwriter Marcus Mumford since 2012, with whom she has three children.

Early life and background
Carey Hannah Mulligan[1] was born on 28 May 1985 in London,[2] to Nano (née Booth) and Stephen Mulligan. Her father, a hotel manager, is of Irish descent and is originally from Liverpool.[3] Her mother, a university lecturer, is from Llandeilo, Wales.[4][3][5][6] Her parents met while they were both working in a hotel in their twenties. In the television series My Grandparents' War (2019), Mulligan explored her maternal grandfather Denzil Booth's role as naval radar artillery officer on HMS Indefatigable at the Battle of Okinawa and then sailing into Tokyo Bay at the end of World War II.[7] When Mulligan was three, her father's work as a hotel manager took the family to West Germany. While living there, she and her brother attended the International School of Düsseldorf.[8] When she was eight, she and her family moved back to the UK. As a teenager, she was educated at Woldingham School, an independent school in Surrey.[9]

Her interest in acting sparked from watching her brother perform in a school production of The King and I when she was six. During rehearsals, she pleaded with his teachers to let her be in the play. They let her join the chorus.[10] While enrolled in Woldingham School as a teen, she was heavily involved in theatre. She was the student head of the drama department there, performing in plays and musicals, conducting workshops with younger students, and helping put on productions.[11][12] When she was 16, she attended a production starring Kenneth Branagh. His performance emboldened her and reinforced her belief that she wanted to pursue a career in acting. She wrote a letter to Branagh asking him for advice. "I explained that my parents didn't want me to act, but that I felt it was my vocation in life," she said. Branagh's sister replied: "Kenneth says that if you feel such a strong need to be an actress, you must be an actress."[10] Mulligan's parents disapproved of her acting ambitions and wished for her to attend a university like her brother. At age 17, she applied to three London drama schools instead of the universities she was expected to apply to, but was not invited to attend them.[10]

During her final year at Woldingham School, screenwriter Julian Fellowes delivered a lecture at the school on the production of the film Gosford Park. Mulligan briefly talked to him after the lecture and asked him for advice on an acting career. Fellowes tried to dissuade her from the profession and suggested she "marry a lawyer" instead. Undeterred, she later sent Fellowes a letter in which she stated she was serious about acting and that it was her purpose in life. Several weeks later, Fellowes's wife Emma invited Mulligan to a dinner she and her husband were hosting for young aspiring actors. It facilitated an introduction between Mulligan and a casting assistant that led to an audition for a role in Pride & Prejudice. She auditioned three times, and was eventually given the role of Kitty Bennet.[10][6][13][14] During her late teens and early twenties, she worked as a pub barmaid and an errand-runner for Ealing Studios between acting jobs.[13][15]

Career
2004–2008: Early work
In 2004, Mulligan made her stage debut in the play Forty Winks at the Royal Court Theatre in London.[16][17] She made her film debut the following year in Joe Wright's 2005 film adaptation of the Jane Austen novel Pride & Prejudice, portraying Kitty Bennet alongside Keira Knightley. Later that year, she won the role of orphan Ada Clare in the BAFTA award-winning BBC adaption of Charles Dickens' Bleak House, her television debut.[18]

Among her 2007 projects were My Boy Jack, starring Daniel Radcliffe, another Jane Austen adaptation, Northanger Abbey, starring Felicity Jones, and the Doctor Who episode "Blink", which won her the Constellation Award for Best Female Performance in a 2007 Science Fiction Television Episode.[19] She rounded out 2007 by appearing in an acclaimed stage revival of The Seagull, in which she played Nina alongside Kristin Scott Thomas and Chiwetel Ejiofor. The Guardian called her performance "quite extraordinarily radiant and frank."[20] While in the middle of the production, she had to have an appendectomy, preventing her from being able to perform for a week.[21] For her debut Broadway performance in the 2008 American transfer of The Seagull, she was nominated for a Drama Desk Award, but lost to Angela Lansbury for Blithe Spirit.[22]

2009–2014: Breakthrough and rise to prominence

Mulligan at a Q&A for her film An Education (2009)
Her breakthrough came when, at 24, she was cast in her first leading role as Jenny, a teenage school girl seduced by an older man in the 2009 independent coming of age film An Education. The film was directed by Danish filmmaker Lone Scherfig and written by Nick Hornby. Over a hundred actresses auditioned for the part, but Mulligan's audition impressed Scherfig the most.[23][24] The film and her performance received rave reviews, and she was nominated for an Academy Award, Screen Actors Guild, Golden Globe, Critics Choice and won a BAFTA Award. Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly and Todd McCarthy of Variety both compared her performance to that of Audrey Hepburn.[25][26] Rolling Stone's Peter Travers described her as having given a "sensational, starmaking performance,"[27] Mulligan received a nomination for the BAFTA Rising Star Award, which is voted on by the British public.[28]

In 2010, she was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences,[29] That same year she starred in the film adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's acclaimed novel Never Let Me Go with Keira Knightley, and Andrew Garfield. She won a British Independent Award for her performance. That same year she starred in the Oliver Stone-directed film Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.[28] Screened out of competition at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival,[30] it was her first major studio project.[31] Later that year she also provided vocals for the song "Write About Love" by Belle & Sebastian.[32]

She returned to the stage in the Atlantic Theater Company's off-Broadway play adaptation of Ingmar Bergman's Through a Glass, Darkly, from 13 May – 3 July 2011.[33] Mulligan played the central character, a mentally unstable woman, and received glowing praise from reviewers.[34] Ben Brantley, theater critic for The New York Times, wrote that Mulligan's performance was "acting of the highest order"; he also described her as "extraordinary" and "one of the finest actresses of her generation."[35] For her performance she was nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play.[36]

Mulligan at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival
Mulligan co-starred in two critically acclaimed films in 2011. The first being Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive, with Ryan Gosling. The second film was Steve McQueen's sex-addiction drama Shame alongside Michael Fassbender.[37] Both films were major film festival hits. Drive debuted at 2011 Cannes Film Festival and Shame debuted at 2011 Venice Film Festival, both to rave reviews. She received her second nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role—for the film Drive which also garnered a total of 4 BAFTA award nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director.[38]

In Shame she played the neurotic and unstable Sissy, the sister of the sex addict played by Michael Fassbender. For her performance in Shame, she received critical praise as well as a nomination for the BIFA for Best Supporting Actress. Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter wrote of her performance, "Exposing herself emotionally and physically as she never has before, Mulligan is terrific in this unexpected role of a deeply wounded and troubled soul."[39]

In 2013, she starred as Daisy Buchanan in Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby opposite Leonardo DiCaprio, which was released in May 2013.[40] Mulligan auditioned for the role of Daisy in late 2010. While attending a Vogue fashion dinner in New York City in November, Baz Luhrmann’s wife, Catherine Martin, told her she had the part. In May 2012, she was a co-chair, alongside Anna Wintour, for the 2012 Met Ball Gala themed Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations.[41][42] In 2013, she also starred in Joel and Ethan Coen's black comedy Inside Llewyn Davis alongside Oscar Isaac, and Justin Timberlake. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival to rave reviews.[43] In the film she plays a folk singer opposite Timberlake. Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian described their performance as "outstanding".[44]

In 2014, she returned to the stage, starring in the London revival of the David Hare play Skylight with Bill Nighy and Matthew Beard, directed by Stephen Daldry, at Wyndham's Theatre in London's West End.[45] It won the 2014 Evening Standard Theatre Award for Revival of the Year and was nominated for the 2014 Olivier Award for Best Revival.[46] She followed the production when it transferred to Broadway at the John Golden Theatre in April 2015. The transfer was a massive success with Marilyn Stasio of Variety declaring that the two central performances left the audience "breathless — and wondering how they can sustain this level of emotional intensity throughout the show’s 13-week Broadway run."[47] The play won the Tony Award for Best Revival and she earned her first Tony Award nomination for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play.[48][49]

2015–2019: Critical acclaim

Mulligan attending the premiere of Wildlife at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival
Mulligan continued to earn acclaim for her portrayal of a wide range of complex characters.[50][51] In 2015, Mulligan starred in Thomas Vinterberg's film adaptation of Thomas Hardy's novel Far from the Madding Crowd with Matthias Schoenaerts, Tom Sturridge, and Michael Sheen,[52][53] Anne Thompson of IndieWire wrote that her performance "proves that she can carry a movie" adding, "Carey Mulligan is excellent: her face has a pinched girlish prettiness combined with a shrewd, slightly schoolmistressy intelligence".[54] In the fall of that year she starred in Sarah Gavron's Suffragette (2015) with Helena Bonham Carter, Ben Whishaw, Brendan Gleeson and Meryl Streep.[55] Justin Chang of Variety praised her as "a standout" adding that she gave "an affecting, skillfully modulated performance".[56]

In 2017, she starred in Netflix's Mudbound, directed by Dee Rees. The film was met with critical acclaim. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 97% with the consensus reading, "Mudbound offers a well-acted, finely detailed snapshot of American history whose scenes of rural class struggle resonate far beyond their period setting."[57] The film earned four Academy Award nominations including Best Adapted Screenplay for Rees.

In 2018, she starred in Paul Dano's directorial debut film Wildlife with Jake Gyllenhaal. The film was written by Dano and Zoe Kazan, and is an adaptation of Richard Ford’s novel of the same name. The film debuted at the 71st Cannes Film Festival and received rave reviews from critics. The film has earned a 94% on Rotten Tomatoes with the consensus reading, "Wildlife's portrait of a family in crisis is beautifully composed by director Paul Dano – and brought brilliantly to life by a career-best performance from Carey Mulligan."[58] For her performance, Mulligan received a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead.

Mulligan stepped back into television as a Detective Inspector in Collateral, a BBC Two limited series, receiving plaudits from American and British critics.[59][60] Mulligan praised creator Sir David Hare for seamlessly accommodating her pregnancy into the script.[61] Mulligan starred off Broadway in the solo show, Girls and Boys at the Minetta Lane Theatre. The show was written by Dennis Kelly and directed by Lyndsey Turner. Her performance was praised, with The New York Times calling it "perfection". She was nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance.[62]

2020–present: Established actress

Mulligan at an event for Maestro in 2023
In 2020, Mulligan starred in Emerald Fennell's black comedy thriller film Promising Young Woman, alongside Bo Burnham and Alison Brie. She also served as an executive producer on the film, which debuted at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival to great acclaim. The website Rotten Tomatoes lists the film's rating as 90%, with a critics consensus reading, "A boldly provocative, timely thriller, Promising Young Woman is an auspicious feature debut for writer-director Emerald Fennell — and a career highlight for Carey Mulligan."[63] Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the film's release was delayed to 25 December 2020.[64] For her performance, she received her second nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress and won the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress, among many other accolades. After winning Best Female Lead at the 36th Independent Spirit Awards, Mulligan dedicated her award to the late Helen McCrory.[65][66]

In 2021, Mulligan replaced Nicole Kidman in The Dig, a film about the events of the 1939 excavation of Sutton Hoo, co-starring Ralph Fiennes and Lily James. It received a limited release in the United Kingdom, followed by a streaming release via Netflix.[67] Mulligan's sole release of 2022 was She Said, based on the non-fiction book of the same name. She portrayed Megan Twohey, one of the real life New York Times reporters who broke the Harvey Weinstein scandal.[68] For her performance, Mulligan received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress.[69]

Mulligan then starred as Felicia Montealegre in Bradley Cooper's directorial Maestro (2023), a biopic about the relationship between Montealegre and her husband Leonard Bernstein (played by Cooper).[70] David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter particularly applauded Mulligan's "heartbreaking" performance, adding that she "has never been better.[71] For her portrayal of Montealegre, she received her third nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress, among other honours. She also played a small part in Fennell's second feature Saltburn, for which she was deemed a "scene-stealer" by Variety.[72][73]

Her next release was an adaptation of the science fiction novel Spaceman of Bohemia for Netflix, co-starring Adam Sandler.[74] The film had its world premiere at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival, and received mostly mixed reviews.[75]

She will have a voice role in Laika's stop motion animated feature Wildwood, based on the fantasy novel of the same name.[76] Mulligan will also star in The Ballad of Wallis Island, a British comedy based on the short film The One and Only Herb McGwyer Plays Wallis Island,[77] and on the second season of Netflix's anthology series Beef, alongside Oscar Isaac, Cailee Spaeny, Charles Melton.[78]

Personal life
Mulligan dated Shia LaBeouf, with whom she co-starred in the film Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, from 2009 to 2010.[79]

In 2012, she married Marcus Mumford, the lead singer of Mumford & Sons. They were childhood pen pals who lost touch and reconnected as adults.[80][81] A few weeks after completing production on the film Inside Llewyn Davis, in which they were both involved, they married on 21 April 2012.[82] They have three children.[83]

Philanthropy
Aside from acting, Mulligan was among the actresses who took part in the Safe Project—each was photographed in the place she feels safest—for a 2010 series to raise awareness of sex trafficking.[84] She donated the Vionnet gown she wore at the 2010 BAFTAs to the Curiosity Shop, which sells its donations to raise money for charity.[85]

Mulligan became the ambassador of the Alzheimer's Society in 2012, with the goal of raising awareness and research funding for Alzheimers and dementia. Her grandmother lived with Alzheimer's disease for the final 17 years of her life, during which she no longer recognised Mulligan.[86][87] She helped host and participated in the 2012 Alzheimer's Society Memory Walk and was one of the sponsored Alzheimer's Society runners in the 2013 Nike Run to the Beat half-marathon in London.[88][89]

In 2014, Mulligan became an ambassador for the charity War Child and visited the Democratic Republic of Congo in this role.[90][91]

Acting credits and accolades
Main articles: List of Carey Mulligan performances and List of awards and nominations received by Carey Mulligan
Mulligan has received numerous accolades, including a British Academy Film Award and a Critics' Choice Movie Award, in addition to nominations for three Academy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, five Screen Actors Guild Awards and a Tony Award. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2025 New Year Honours for services to drama.[92][93]

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