Meet Hollywood's New 'It Girl'

Carey Mulligan's role in An Education reminiscent of Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman
By Evann Gastaldo,  Newser Staff
Posted Oct 28, 2009 1:09 PM CDT
Meet Hollywood's New 'It Girl'
In this film publicity image released by Sony Pictures Classics, Carey Mulligan is shown in a scene from, "An Education."   (AP Photo/Sony Pictures Classics, Kerry Brown)

Thanks to her lauded role in An Education, Carey Mulligan is Hollywood's latest "It Girl," poised to join the ranks of Julia Roberts and Audrey Hepburn. "She has fragility, she has humor, she can be very moving, she's bright, and she's great to look at," says a director. Her star should continue to rise (she is set to appear in several high-profile movies, CNN notes)—as long as she doesn't follow the trajectories of short-term "It Girls" like Molly Ringwald.

How to avoid that fate? One publicist recommends taking up humanitarian causes, hiring a great management team, and dating a fellow star—the last of which Mulligan, currently attached to Wall Street 2 costar Shia LaBeouf, can check off. And Mulligan's blushing embarrassment when asked about her new status ("'It Girl' is such a weird term," she says, trailing off) only adds to her charm. (More Carey Mulligan stories.)

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