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Faye Bradley

Contributing Online Editor, Style by SCMP


To say that Carey Mulligan and her brother Owain Mulligan went down totally different career paths would be an understatement.
While the Oscar-nominated actress was busy flying around in her Great Gatsby co-star Leonardo DiCaprio’s private jets, and enjoying the glitz and glamour of Hollywood, her older sibling was pursuing a career in the military, as revealed in his new memoir, The Accidental Soldier: Dispatches from (Quite Near) the Front Line.

“I remember on one of my tours I flew to Afghanistan on a trooping flight with 150 other soldiers, and all they give you is a bottle of water on board, but apart from that they sit you in your helmet and body armour for 10 hours,” he writes in the book, per the Daily Mail. “So, I was on that flight at the exact same time that Carey was crossing the Atlantic on Leonardo DiCaprio’s private jet, which always struck me as a particularly galling juxtaposition,” he added.
Owain, 42, describes Carey as his “best friend”, and attended her 2012 wedding to Mumford & Sons frontman Marcus Mumford.
Here’s what we know about him.
What is Owain Mulligan’s background?

Owain Mulligan was born in London in 1982. He grew up living between the UK and Germany, and went on to study modern history at the University of Oxford, per his LinkedIn.
He was in the British Army

Owain was deployed to both Iraq and Afghanistan and was a linguist for the army, according to the Daily Mail. His sister often speaks very fondly of him – and has shared stories of his experience. “When my brother was a soldier in Afghanistan, he was at a base around the corner from a girls’ school that had to be shut down because of the Taliban,” she told Harper’s Bazaar in 2014. “They had poisoned the water source. The only way it could reopen was if a new well was built. So my brother took up the initiative, amazingly, and started raising money for this school.”
He’s written a memoir

Owain’s new book was released on April 10. It’s said to be a “searingly honest and darkly funny account of what it was really like being in the British Army in Iraq”, per its Amazon description, and he already has ringing endorsements from the likes of John Oliver, actor Richard E. Grant and writer Marina Hyde.
Owain is reportedly donating 100 per cent of royalty earnings from sales of the book to the charity War Child, “to help protect, educate and stand up for the rights of children living through conflict”, according to Greyhound Literary.
He has a wife and kids
There isn’t much information about Owain’s personal life, but author agency Greyhound Literary reports that he is married and has two children. He’s been working as a partner at Bain & Company since 2014.


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