10 Actors Who Ruin Any Film They're In

7. Carey Mulligan

Starting her film career in the woeful 2005 adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, Carey Mulligan has become the woman Hollywood turns to when someone is looking to ruin a perfectly good book or existing film. She must hold the record for the most amount of films ruined in a calendar year, with the The Greatest, Brothers, An Education, and Public Enemies all taking an nosedive whenever she appeared on screen to sob or grimace unconvincingly.

She was at the heart of all that was wrong with Never Let Me Go, phoned in an entire performance in the Wall Street Sequel, and played one of the most inexplicably irritating and pointless female leads of recent years in the otherwise excellent Drive. She retained a semblance of critical acclaim in Shame, but that was largely down to the fact her character was so insipid and humdrum that it might as well have been autobiographical.

Naturally, when Baz Lurhamnn's inevitable Gatsby disaster got into the casting phase, she was the only choice to take the delicate, whimsical, and duplicitous Daisy and put in the sort of barely-even-there performance it deserved. By and large, Mulligan's probably a really, really nice person, but her appearance on screen simply tells audiences there's going to be lots of scenes where actors stare wistfully at things for no discernible reason.