Beef Season 2: 11 Carey Mulligan Roles You'd Probably Forgotten She Once Played

Carey Mulligan had a varied career on the big and small screen long before she was beefing with Oscar Isaac in the addictive Netflix series.

Carey Mulligan has returned to the small screen in season two of the Netflix drama Beef.

In the new episodes of Beef, Carey plays a middle-class woman whose life begins to unravel when she and her husband, played by Oscar Isaac, become embroiled in a bitter feud with a young couple who work for them at a country club.

Perhaps best known for her period drama roles, the British star has racked up a varied list of credits over the last two decades, landing Oscar nominations for her work in An Education, Promising Young Woman and Maestro.

However, there are plenty of roles from her CV that might have completely slipped your mind, too.

As rave reviews continue to roll in for Carey’s performance in Beef, here are 11 roles you may have forgotten she played long before landing her part in the hit Netflix show…

In the same year that Carey made her film debut opposite Keira Knightley in Pride & Prejudice, she starred in another classic literary adaptation.

For her first TV role, Carey played Ada Clare in the 2005 BBC adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Bleak House, which also featured acting legends like Charles Dance, Timothy West and Gillian Anderson.

It’s generally considered one of the best adaptations of the book and was nominated for numerous awards, including a Bafta, Golden Globe and 10 Emmys.

The Amazing Mrs Pritchard

In 2006, Carey Mulligan landed the role of Emily Pritchard in The Amazing Mrs Pritchard, alongside Jane Horrocks and Steven Mackintosh.

She portrayed the grown-up daughter of Jane’s character, fictitious prime minister Rosamund “Ros” Jane Pritchard, a woman who found herself the new leader of the UK despite having no previous........

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