She has sad looks, shy smile and innocent facial features: Who is Carey Mulligan?

Carey Mulligan, a beautiful and talented actress, was born on May 28, 1985, in Westminster, London, as the daughter of a middle-class family. Her father, of Irish origin and from Liverpool, was a hotel manager, and her mother, from Llandeilo, was a university lecturer.

His parents met when they were both working at a hotel in their 20s. The family moved to Germany when Mulligan was 3 years old due to her father's work and returned to England when she was eight. The beautiful actress's interest in acting emerged when she was 6 years old, watching her older brother star in the play The King and I performed at school.

In the following years, she began to feel a great passion for theater. While she was studying at Woldingham School, she became student president of the drama department. While taking part in plays and musicals, she also organized workshops for younger students. At the age of 16, she took part in the production of the play Henry V, starring Kenneth Branagh, and after watching Branagh's performance, she decided to continue her acting career. She wrote a letter to Branagh in which she explained her dreams of becoming an actor.

His family was not in favor of her becoming an actor, they wanted her to study at university like her older brother. When Mulligan was 17, she applied to three different drama schools in London but did not receive a positive response from any of them. In her last year of high school, she met Julian Fellowes, who came to teach at her school. This was the move that launched her professional acting career. After dinner at Fellowes' house, she auditioned for Pride and Prejudice and won the role of Kitty Bennett.

Following this role, the actress, whom we will watch in various supporting roles in cinema and television, made her breakthrough with her first leading role, the character of Jenny in the movie An Education. She was nominated for an Oscar and won a BAFTA Award for her performance in the film.

This film was followed by works such as The Greatest, Never Let Me Go, and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. At the same time, she continued to appear actively on the theater stage. She started to take part in films that became bigger hits on the big screen.

This period of rise, which started with Drive directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, included the films Shame, in which she starred with Michael Fassbender, and The Great Gatsby, in which she shared the leading roles with Leonardo DiCaprio. Another notable production was Thomas Vinterberg's new film, Far from the Madding Crowd.