Carey Mulligan To Be Honored by Hollywood Film Festival

British actress Carey Mulligan, who most recently played Nina in the recent Broadway revival of THE SEAGULL will be honored by the Hollywood Film Festival on October 26th at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, Variety is reporting.

Additional honorees include actors Gabourey Sibirde and Jeremy Renner, director Lee Daniels and writers Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber.

Mulligan made her Broadway debut in the 2008 US transfer of The Seagull, for which she was nominated for a Drama Desk Award.  She launched her professional acting career in the 2005 movie version of the Jane Austen novel "Pride & Prejudice." That same year she appeared in the BAFTA award-winning BBC adaption of Charles Dickens "Bleak House." Since then, her extensive credits include: the TV series "The Amazing Mrs Pritchard" opposite Jane Horrocks, "The Sittaford Mystery", and "ITV's Marple.  She appeared in the acclaimed 2007 revival of "The Seagull," the film adaptation of Blake Morrison's memoirs "And When Did You Last See Your Father?" and "My Boy Jack" with Kim Catrall and Daniel Radcliff.  She will next appear in Lone Scherfig's new movie "An Education," alongside Peter Sarsgaard and Dominic Cooper, which opens on October 9. The actress also recently filmed "Wall Street 2" and "Never Let Me Go."