Carey Mulligan is an English actress. After playing minor roles in several films and television shows, Mulligan starred in her first major role in Lone Scherfig's coming-of-age drama film An Education (2009), which earned her the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, and she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama. The following year, Mulligan won the BIFA Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a British Independent Film for playing in the dystopian romantic Never Let Me Go, based on the 2005 novel of the same name by Kazuo Ishiguro. In 2011, she earned further acclaim for her supporting performances in Nicolas Winding Refn's action drama Drive and Steve McQueen's erotic drama Shame, the for