Just seven years after leaving Woldingham School, Carey Mulligan has been nominated for an Oscar and two BAFTAS for her debut-lead film role in Nick Hornby's An Education. Carey has some stiff competition for the Best Actress award as she is up against Hollywood mega-star Meryl Streep and our own British star Dame Helen Mirren.
She is a top contender for a BAFTA award in February, being nominated for both the Rising Star award, voted on by the public, and for the Best Actress award. Carey has already scooped Best Actress prize at the British Independent Film Awards in December 2009 for the same role.
Carey believes that her love of acting was first kindled at Woldingham School . She is grateful for the strong, professional guidance and encouragement she received whilst at school which has underpinned her unstinting focus on an acting career.
Her rise to stardom means she follows in the footsteps of previous Sacred Heart alumnae which have included Maureen O'Hara and Vivien Leigh.
Huge congratulations to Carey for being nominated for these prestigious awards for her first starring role.
Needless to say all at Woldingham will be hoping for her to win.
Described as a "hugely impressive school", Woldingham is one of the leading girls' independent boarding and day schools in the country. The beautiful 700 acre site is set in a hidden valley in the Surrey Downs in a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. It is also near to London being only 30 minutes by train to Victoria Station with a station in the school grounds, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are within easy reach, and the M25 & M23 motorways are within a 5 minute drive.
A Level and GCSE results are well above average. A Level pass rate is 100%. The school bucks the trend in uptake of Science, Economics and Mathematics. Girls also achieve outstanding results in Humanities and Languages. Leavers go on to top Russell Group Universities or the equivalent.
Students benefit from outstanding extracurricular and study facilities. An intensive yet sympathetic buildings programme has now furnished the school with some of the most impressive facilities of any school or university in the country.
Our Catholic ethos has enabled us to provide a caring and supportive Christian community in which girls are happy, confident and inspired to meet challenges and to achieve excellence in whatever they choose to do. A recent Sixth Form leaver wrote, "I owe Woldingham and its staff a vast amount. It was her e I was given the support and guidance necessary to end up at a university and on a career path my family and I still find hard to believe. What I am most proud of about my school is that the staff puts every energy toward students succeeding as a whole, not purely academically, but also in character. I believe that whether you are academic, sporty, musical or artistic - Woldingham will ensure you excel, but most notably, allow you to thrive in character, becoming the individual you want to be, in both work and play."
Woldingham School is committed to continued development in all areas of school life offering exceptional breadth and balance of life and education. As one visitor wrote " Can I define a 'Woldingham Girl'? Indeed I can! She is rightly ambitious, confident, self-disciplined, a leader, a decision maker, one who can make moral decisions with peace of mind: one on whom future generations will rely. Excellence and Woldingham, the words will continue to be synonymous".
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