Carey Mulligan Says She FilmedThe Ballad of Wallis Islandwith Her Newborn Daughter on Set: 'It Was Kind of Lovely' (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Carey Mulligan at ‘The Ballad Of Wallace Island’ premiere during the 2025 Sundance Film Festival at Eccles Center Theatre on January 25, 2025.Photo:Cindy Ord/Getty

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Carey Mulliganmade filming her new movie a family affair.

Speaking exclusively to PEOPLE at the Sundance Film Festival on Saturday, Jan. 25, the actress, 39, who shares three children with her musician husband Marcus Mumford, spoke about how she balances parenting with work.

Mulligan, who has not revealed the name of her daughter, adds, “She came with us. She was upstairs in every house that we filmed in and I would just do the scene, go up, see her, feed her, and then come back down.”

“So they made it incredibly easy and it was kind of lovely,” thePromising Young Womanstar says.

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Carey Mulligan at the premiere of ‘Spaceman’ at The Egyptian Theatre Hollywood on February 26, 2024 in Los Angeles.Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty Images

Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty Images

Confirming the news in an interview withVogue, the journalist mentioned that Mulligan was six weeks postpartum at the time of the interview and she made a “bemused gesture at the yellow diaper-leak stain streaked across her blouse.”

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Marcus Mumford and Carey Mulligan at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024.Jenny Anderson/Disney via Getty

Jenny Anderson/Disney via Getty

Mulligan and Mumford, whomarried in 2012, are also parents to daughter Evelyn Grace, 9, and son Wilfred, 7.

source: people.com