Carey Mulligan

Carey Mulligan plays Rose The Greatest

Tragedy opens the wounds a family has long struggled to ignore in this powerful emotional drama. Bennett Brewster (Aaron Johnson) was a bright, handsome and talented young man who was suddenly killed in an auto accident late one night while driving home with Rose (Carey Mulligan), a girl who has been a close friend for years but had only recently become romantically involved with him. Bennett’s death devastates his family; his mother Grace (Susan Sarandon) is overcome with grief and can’t stop wondering what his final minutes must have been like, father Allan (Pierce Brosnan) is forced to turn away from his mistress (Jennifer Ehle) and try to comfort a woman he no longer certain he loves, and brother Ryan (Johnny Simmons) mourns Bennett while becoming painfully aware that he will never live up to his late brother’s example in the eyes of his parents. As grief slowly brings the family’s emotional troubles to the surface, two unwelcome characters come into the picture — Rose, who has discovered she’s pregnant with Bennett’s child, and the truck driver (Michael Shannon) who unwittingly took Bennett’s life. The first feature film from writer and director Shana Feste, The Greatest received its world premiere at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival

Carey Mulligan plays Elsie Kipling in My Boy Jack

Jack, at home again, talks with Elsie, his sister. He explains that he wants to leave in order to get away from “this house and everything”, and Elsie becomes angry with Jack — not because he wants to leave her, but because he could be killed at war. Kipling comes into the room, and Elsie hides behind a chair. Kipling then tells Jack that he will get Jack into the army, somehow. After Kipling leaves, Elsie emerges, furious.

Elsie reveals that Jack went to war, not out of patriotism, but to get away from his family, particularly to escape the shadow of Kipling’s fame.

Elsie is marries George Bambridge. Her parents, though still missing Jack, are beginning to move on; they are happy for Elsie.

It has been twenty years since My Boy Jack first began, in 1913. There are rumours of war, again, and Kipling wonders why the Great War was even fought. What was the point of his son’s death, if there will just be another war?

My Boy Jack ends with Kipling reciting his poem, My Boy Jack

Carey Mulligan plays Rachel in And When Did You Last See Your Father?

Adapted from poet Blake Morrison’s best-selling memoir by screenwriter David Nicholls and directed for the screen by Anand Tucker, And When Did You Last See Your Father? explores — like its source material — the complex, manifold emotional layers of a father-and-son relationship as it shifts and evolves over the passing decades.

At the film’s center is Blake Morrison himself, who for as long as he can remember has lived in the overarching shadow of his physician father, Arthur (Jim Broadbent) — falling prey to feelings of embarrassment from the old man, as well as occasional awe. In the 1950s, when Blake (Bradley Johnson) was a child, the boy watched as Arthur partook in socially uncouth behavior such as wheedling his way into clubs to which he didn’t belong, and carrying on an extramarital affair with the full knowledge of his wife, Kim (Juliet Stevenson). As the years passed, teenage Blake’s (Matthew Beard) discomfort around his father hardened into resentment — particularly when the adolescent boy expressed interest in a girl, Rachel (Carey Mulligan), who clearly preferred his father; compounding the situation, Blake then had to suffer through Arthur’s decision to publicly humiliate his son in front of everyone. The central dynamic has changed for the two, however, by the late ’80s, when Blake — now married to Kathy (Gina McKee) and freshly established as a successful novelist and poet — learns that Arthur has contracted terminal cancer.

Now, the junior Morrison takes a headfirst plunge into the memories and recollections of his youth — and grapples with the dynamic of his relationship with Arthur for the first time in his life as he comes face to face with the need to provide loving care for the old man. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide

Carey Mulligan plays Sally Sparrow in Doctor Who “Blink”

Carey Mulligan plays Isabella Thorpe in Northanger Abbey

Carey Mulligan plays Sister Bridgid in Waking the Dead

Having identified the dead boy as Davy McDonagh, the police try to determine why he and his brother Joe fought all those years ago and what exactly happened to Davy afterward. Having established a link between the McDonagh clan and the fight organizers, the solution to the case revolves around jealousy and the love of the same woman.

Carey Mulligan plays Emily Pritchard in The Amazing Mrs Pritchard

Emily Pritchard is Ros’s older daughter. Emily finds her mother’s new fame hard to deal with. Initially a student at the University of Sussex, she soon drops out. A magazine deal sees naked pictures of her projected onto the Houses of Parliament. And when her father admits his money laundering to Emily, it is a secret she finds hard to keep.

Carey Mulligan plays Emily Harrogate in Trial & Retribution

Lynda La Plante presents Trial & Retribution – Sins of the Father, a highly-charged and psychologically complex story which reveals tragic flaws and failures hidden beneath the familiar veneer of family relationships.

Young Emily Harrogate, the clever daughter of an apparently happily married middle class couple, is found dead in the family home by her parents.

Carey Mulligan plays Violet Willett in Agatha Christie Marple: The Sittaford Mystery

‘Violet Willett and her mother come to the hotel for a week, under the guise that mother is going birdwatching. Mother is quite a domineering character, so Violet has turned into quite a mousey, ‘hide-behind-the-glasses’ type of girl.

I wanted to do a Marple because it’s something I’ve never really done before. Also there is the obvious benefit of getting to wear these beautiful clothes and the way the final product looks. The script is just stunning because there are so many back stories. Everyone has their own agenda so there are a million and one things going on in every scene. My favorite is when everything is revealed. Everyone has their own secret – and it’s always fun when you get to expose all of that!

Working with this cast has been brilliant, really brilliant. Whenever I tell friends about it the reaction is always, “Wow!” The cast is all perfect for their parts — they are exactly as they should be. I worked with Matthew Kelly on Bleak House, so I knew him already. Patricia Hodge, who plays my mother, is amazing — she’s really helped me because this is a different style of acting than what I’m used to. It’s not always totally realistic and she’s helped me to get into that.

I’m not sure what the lasting appeal of Agatha Christie’s stories is, really. I just know that when I got this part I had so many friends who said. “Brilliant, I’ll definitely be watching!” and then equally I have elderly relatives who will be watching. I think it just appeals to everyone.’

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