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Cate Blanchett
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| Cate Blanchett | |
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 Cate Blanchett |
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| Birth name | Catherine Élise Blanchett |
| Born | May 14, 1969 Melbourne, Australia |
| Years active | 1996 - present |
| Spouse(s) | Andrew Upton (1997-) |
Catherine Élise Blanchett (born May 14, 1969), better known as Cate Blanchett, is an Academy Award- and Golden Globe Award-winning Australian actress. She has won various other awards, most notably two SAGs and two BAFTAs, as well as the Volpi Cup at 64th International Venice Film Festival.
Blanchett came to international attention in the 1998 film Elizabeth, directed by Shekhar Kapur, in which she played Elizabeth I of England. She is also well known for her portrayals of the High elf queen Galadriel in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy and Katharine Hepburn in The Aviator, a role which brought her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
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Blanchett was born in Ivanhoe, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, the daughter of June, an Australian property developer and teacher, and Robert Blanchett, a Texas-born United States Navy Petty Officer who met Blanchett's mother while stationed in Melbourne and who later worked as an advertising executive.[1][2] When Blanchett was 10, she lost her father to a heart attack. She has described herself during childhood as "part extrovert, part wallflower".[3] She has two siblings; her older brother, Bob, is a computer systems engineer, and her younger sister, Genevieve, is a theatrical designer.[3]
Blanchett attended primary school in Melbourne at Ivanhoe East Primary School before completing secondary education at Methodist Ladies' College, where she explored her passion for acting. She studied economics and fine art at the University of Melbourne before leaving Australia to travel. When she was 18, Blanchett went on a vacation to Egypt. A fellow guest at a cheap hotel in Cairo asked if she wanted to be an extra in a movie, and the next day she found herself in a crowd scene cheering for an American boxer who was losing to an Egyptian. She walked off from the set. Blanchett returned to Australia and later moved to Sydney to study at the National Institute of Dramatic Art; graduating in 1992 and beginning her career in the theatre.
Her first major stage role was opposite Geoffrey Rush in the 1993 David Mamet play Oleanna. She also appeared as Ophelia in an acclaimed 1994–95 Company B production of Hamlet, directed by Neil Armfield, starring Rush and Richard Roxburgh. Blanchett appeared in the mini-series Heartland opposite Ernie Dingo, the mini-series Bordertown and in an episode of Police Rescue episode entitled "The Loaded Boy". She made her Australian telemovie debut in the 1994 film of Police Rescue as a teacher taken hostage by armed bandits.
Blanchett made her international film debut as an Australian nurse captured by the Japanese in a production of Paradise Road directed by Bruce Beresford, co-starring Glenn Close and Frances McDormand. Her first high-profile role was as Elizabeth I of England in the 1998 movie Elizabeth, which earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. Blanchett lost out to Gwyneth Paltrow for her role in Shakespeare in Love' but won a British Academy (BAFTA) Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama.
The following year, Blanchett was nominated for another BAFTA Award for her supporting role in The Talented Mr. Ripley. In 2004, she played a pregnant journalist in the Wes Anderson film The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, yet again earning a nomination for BFCA award for Best Acting Ensemble. In 2005, she won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for playing Katharine Hepburn in Martin Scorsese's The Aviator. This made Blanchett the first person ever to garner an Academy Award for playing a previous Oscar-winning actor/actress. Already an acclaimed actress, Blanchett received a host of new fans when she appeared in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings movies. She played the role of the High Elf Queen Galadriel in all three films, which hold the record as the highest grossing film trilogy of all time.[4]
In 2006 she starred in both Babel opposite Brad Pitt, and Notes on a Scandal playing Sheba Hart opposite Dame Judi Dench. Coincidentally, Dench won the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for playing Elizabeth I, the same year Blanchett lost for playing the same historical figure, albeit in a different category. Blanchett received her third Academy Award nomination for her performance in the film (Dench was also Oscar nominated). In 2007, she won the Best Actress Award at the Venice Film Festival for portraying one of six incarnations of Bob Dylan in Todd Haynes' feature film I'm Not There and also reprised her role as Elizabeth I in the sequel to Elizabeth entitled Elizabeth: the Golden Age. Blanchett has completed filming roles in Steven Spielberg's film Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, both will be released in 2008.
Blanchett was named as one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People In The World in 2007 and also one of the most successful actresses by Forbes magazine.
Blanchett and her husband will commence three-year contracts as artistic co-directors of the Sydney Theatre Company in January 2008. Their contracts include a clause that will allow either of them to take three months out of each year to pursue other activities.
Blanchett's husband is playwright and screenwriter Andrew Upton, whom she met in 1996 while she was performing in a production of The Seagull. It was not love at first sight, however. "He thought I was aloof and I thought he was arrogant," Blanchett later remarked. "It just shows you how wrong you can be, but once he kissed me that was that." The two were married on December 29, 1997. Their first child, Dashiell John, was born on December 3, 2001; their second child, Roman Robert, was born on April 23, 2004. She is now currently pregnant with her third child, which is due in April 2008.[5][6]
After making England her main family home for most of the early 2000s, she and her husband returned to their native Australia. Blanchett said in a Vogue interview of November 2006:
Andrew and I realized how much Australia meant to us. We saw the theatre community in Sydney and we felt, well, we know you all; we have worked with many of you. We have tried to live a few other places, but something really hit us in the gut. It's just a feeling about what home is. It became clear to us, particularly after the children were born, that family and the theatrical community in Australia were a large part of who we are.[7]
In 2006 a portrait of Cate Blanchett and family painted by McLean Edwards was a finalist in the Archibald Prize. The prize is awarded for the "best portrait painting preferentially of some man or woman distinguished in Art, Letters, Science or Politics".[8]
Blanchett works as the face of SK-II, the luxury skin care brand owned by Procter & Gamble.
In 2007, Blanchett supported the web-based campaign www.whoonearthcares.com - urging people to express their concerns about climate change in Australia.
| Year | Film | Role | Notes and Awards |
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| 1996 | Parklands | Rosie | |
| 1997 | Oscar and Lucinda | Lucinda Leplastrier | Nominated for Australian Film Institute award for Best Lead Actress |
| Thank God He Met Lizzie | Lizzie | Won Australian Film Institute award for Best Supporting Actress | |
| Paradise Road | Susan Macarthy | ||
| 1998 | Elizabeth | Elizabeth I of England | Nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress Won Golden Globe for Best Actress - Drama Won BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role Nominated for SAG award for Best Actress in a Leading Role Won BFCA Critics' Choice Award for Best Actress |
| 1999 | Bangers | Julie-Anne | |
| The Talented Mr. Ripley | Meredith Logue | Nominated for BAFTA for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role | |
| Pushing Tin | Connie Falzone | ||
| An Ideal Husband | Lady Gertrude Chiltern | ||
| 2000 | The Gift | Annabelle "Annie" Wilson | |
| The Man Who Cried | Lola | ||
| 2001 | The Shipping News | Petal Quoyle | |
| Charlotte Gray | Charlotte Gray | ||
| The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Galadriel | Nominated for SAG award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast | |
| Bandits | Kate Wheeler | Nominated for Golden Globe for Best Actress - Comedy or Musical Nominated for SAG award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role |
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| 2002 | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | Galadriel | Nominated for SAG award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast |
| Heaven | Philippa | ||
| 2003 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Galadriel | Won SAG award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast Won BFCA award for Best Acting Ensemble |
| The Missing | Magdalena 'Maggie' Gilkeson | ||
| Coffee and Cigarettes | Herself & Shelly | ||
| Veronica Guerin | Veronica Guerin | Nominated for Golden Globe for Best Actress - Drama | |
| 2004 | The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou | Jane Winslett-Richardson | Nominated for BFCA award for Best Acting Ensemble |
| The Aviator | Katharine Hepburn | Won Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Won BAFTA award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role Won SAG award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated for BFCA award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated for Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress |
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| 2005 | Little Fish | Tracy Heart | Won Australian Film Institute award for Best Lead Actress |
| 2006 | Babel | Susan Jones | Won Gotham Award for Best Ensemble Nominated for SAG award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Nominated for BFCA award for Best Acting Ensemble |
| The Good German | Lena Brandt | ||
| Notes on a Scandal | Sheba Hart | Nominated for BFCA award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated for Golden Globe award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated for SAG award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress |
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| 2007 | Hot Fuzz | Janine | Uncredited Cameo |
| Elizabeth: The Golden Age | Elizabeth I | Nominated for BFCA award for Best Actress[9][10] Nominated for Golden Globe for Best Actress - Drama Nominated for SAG award for Best Actress in a Leading Role[11] |
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| I'm Not There | Jude Quinn (Bob Dylan) | Won Volpi Cup for Best Actress Nominated for BFCA award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated for Golden Globe award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated for SAG award for Best Supporting Actress |
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| 2008 | Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull | Agent Irina Spalko | Post-Production |
| The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | Daisy | Post-Production | |
| 2009 | Fantastic Mr. Fox | Mrs. Fox | Voice |
| Awards | ||
|---|---|---|
| Academy Award | ||
| Preceded by Renée Zellweger for Cold Mountain |
Best Supporting Actress for The Aviator 2004 |
Succeeded by Rachel Weisz for The Constant Gardener |
| BAFTA Award | ||
| Preceded by Judi Dench for Mrs. Brown |
Best Actress for Elizabeth 1998 |
Succeeded by Annette Bening for American Beauty |
| Preceded by Renée Zellweger for Cold Mountain |
Best Supporting Actress for The Aviator 2004 |
Succeeded by Thandie Newton for Crash |
| Golden Globe Award | ||
| Preceded by Judi Dench for Mrs. Brown |
Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama for Elizabeth 1998 |
Succeeded by Hilary Swank for Boys Don't Cry |
| Screen Actors Guild Award | ||
| Preceded by Renée Zellweger for Cold Mountain |
Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture 2004 for The Aviator |
Succeeded by Rachel Weisz for The Constant Gardener |
| Venice Film Festival | ||
| Preceded by Helen Mirren for The Queen |
Best Actress for I'm Not There 2007 |
Succeeded by TBD |
- ^ Cate Blanchett's biography_ Elle December 2003. Elle. Retrieved on 2007-10-17.
- ^ Cate Blanchett's biography. filmreference.com. Retrieved on 2007-10-17.
- ^ a b Cate Blanchett's biography. The biography channel. Retrieved on 2007-10-17.
- ^ Top Trilogies worldwide. Box Office Mojo (September 21, 2004). Retrieved on 2007-10-17.
- ^ http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20155866,00.html
- ^ http://www.reuters.com/article/peopleNews/idUSSYD14588820071104
- ^ Michael Specter (November 2006). Head First. Vogue. Retrieved on 2007-10-17.
- ^ Archibald Prize 07. Art Gallery NSW. Retrieved on 2007-07-19.
- ^ http://www.awardsdaily.com/2007/12/critics-choice-announcement-tb.html#more
- ^ http://www.bfca.org/NomineesWinners.asp
- ^ http://www.sagawards.org/PR_071220
- CateBlanchett.net
- Cate Blanchett - Australian Film Commission
- Cate Blanchett at the Internet Movie Database
- Photo of Cate Blanchett in costume and article about the Montreal shoot of I'm Not There (in French)
- Interview: Recent article about Cate's environmental renovation to her Australian home