Carey Mulligan is standing out from the madding crowd

Carey Mulligan’s role in a Hardy adaptation marks the latest step up the ladder for the talented actress, writes Susan Griffin

CAREY Mulligan’s latest role is one of novelist Thomas Hardy’s great heroines, Bathsheba Everdene, the fiercely independent young woman in Far From the Madding Crowd who inherits her uncle’s farm.

Mulligan wasn’t afraid to get her hands dirty for the role.