Cate Blanchett

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Image:CateBlanchett.png Cate Blanchett (born May 14, 1969) is an Academy Award-winning Australian actress.

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Personal life

She was born Catherine Elise Blanchett in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, the daughter of a Texan naval petty officer of distant French descent who came ashore in Melbourne and met her mother, a Melbourne schoolteacher. Her father, Robert, later worked in advertising after marrying her mother, June. He died of a heart attack when Cate was 10 years old. She has two siblings; the elder, Bob, is a computer programmer, and her younger sister, Genevieve, is a theatrical designer.

Her husband is playwright and screenwriter Andrew Upton, whom she met back in 1996 while she was performing in a production of The Seagull. It was hardly 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, son Dashiell John, was born on December 3, 2001; their second child, son Roman Robert, was born on April 23, 2004. The younger son received a minor burn injury on May 15, 2005 while the family was in Marrakech, Morocco, for the filming of the movie Babel. After treatment there, Blanchett flew with him to London for further treatment.

After making England her main family home for most of the early 2000s, she has recently returned to her native Australia.

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Career

Blanchett's secondary education was in Melbourne at the Methodist Ladies' College, where she explored her passion for acting. She later moved to Sydney to study at the National Institute of Dramatic Art; graduating in 1992 and beginning her career on the stage. 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 production of Hamlet, directed by Neil Armfield, starring Richard Roxburgh and Geoffrey Rush.

She had roles in Australian television drama mini-series. She appeared as 'Elizabeth Ashton' in the mini-series Heartland opposite Ernie Dingo ("Heartland" is known as "Burned Bridges" in the United States), and she appeared as Bianca in the mini-series Bordertown.

Her film debut was as an Australian nurse captured by the Japanese in the prisoner of war production of Paradise Road directed by Bruce Beresford, that co-starred Glenn Close and Frances McDormand.

Blanchett is perhaps best known for her role as Elizabeth I, Queen of England in the 1998 movie Elizabeth. This role earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress, which she was widely considered to be likely to win (however the award instead went to Gwyneth Paltrow for Shakespeare in Love). Blanchett later won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 2005 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.

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.

Blanchett is said to be reprising her role as Elizabeth I in the upcoming sequel tentatively entitled 'The Golden Age'.

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Filmography

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Year Film Role Award Nominations and/or Wins
2007 Benjamin Button
2006 Golden Age Elizabeth I
Babel
The Good German Lena Brandt
Notes on a Scandal Sheba Hart
2005 Little Fish Tracy Heart Won Australian Film Institute award (AFI) for Best Lead Actress
2004 The Life Aquatic 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
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 Maggie Gilkeson
Coffee and Cigarettes Cate / Shelly
Veronica Guerin Veronica Guerin Nominated for Golden Globe for Best Actress - Drama
2002 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Galadriel Nominated for SAG award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast
Heaven Philippa
2001 The Shipping News Petal Bear
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
2000 The Gift Annabelle "Annie" Wilson
The Man Who Cried Lola
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
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
1997 Oscar and Lucinda Lucinda Leplastrier Nominated for Australian Film Institute award (AFI) for Best Lead Actress
Thank God He Met Lizzie Lizzie Won Australian Film Institute award (AFI) for Best Lead Actress
Paradise Road Susan Macarthy
1996Parklands Rosie
1995
1994 Police Rescue Vivian
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Awards won

  • 1992 Sydney Theatre Critics Award: Best Actress for David Mamet's Oleanna
  • 1993 Sydney Critics Circle Award: Best Newcomer for Timothy Daly's Kafka Dances
  • 1997 AFI Award: Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Thank God He Met Lizzie
  • 1997 Sydney Film Critics Award: Best Supporting Actress for Thank God He Met Lizzie
  • 1998 BAFTA Award: Best Actress for Elizabeth
  • 1998 Golden Globe Awards: Best Actress, Drama, for Elizabeth
  • 2003 Screen Actors Guild Awards: Best Ensemble Cast for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
  • 2004 Academy Award - Best Supporting Actress for The Aviator
  • 2004 British Academy of Film and Television Arts: Best Supporting Actress for The Aviator
  • 2004 Screen Actors Guild Awards: Best Supporting Actress for The Aviator
  • 2005 AFI Award: Best Lead Actress for Little Fish
  • 2006 Mo Award: Best Female Actor in a Play for Hedda Gabler

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Awards nominated

  • 1997 AFI Award: Nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for Oscar and Lucinda
  • 1998 Academy Award: Nominated for Best Actress for Elizabeth
  • 1999 BAFTA Award: Nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role for The Talented Mr. Ripley
  • 2001 Golden Globe Awards: Nominated for Best Actress, Musical or Comedy, for Bandits
  • 2003 Golden Globe Awards: Nominated for Best Actress, Drama, for Veronica Guerin
  • 2004 Golden Globe Awards: Nominated for Best Supporting Actress for The Aviator
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Quotes

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  • "If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously."
  • On the Lord of the Rings trilogy: "I had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or anything like that. Lord of the Rings was like stepping into a videogame for me. It was another world completely. But, to be honest, I basically did it so that I could have the ears. I thought they would really work with my bare head."
  • "If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state."
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