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Catherine Élise Blanchett (born on May
14, 1969) is an Academy Award and Golden Globe
Award-winning Australian actress.
Early life: Blanchett was born in Melbourne,
Australia to Robert Blanchett, a Texas-born United
States Navy Petty Officer who later worked in
advertising, and June, an Australian schoolteacher. When
Blanchett was 10, she lost her father to a heart attack.
She has two siblings; the elder, Bob, is a computer
systems engineer, and her younger sister, Geneviève, is
a theatrical designer. She is of French ancestry.
Career: 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. She 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 the
Police Rescue episode, "The Loaded Boy".
She made her 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.
Blanchett's first high-profile role was as Elizabeth I
of England in the 1998 movie Elizabeth. This role earned
her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress, losing
to Gwyneth Paltrow for Shakespeare in Love. However,
Blanchett's performance won her 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. She won an Academy Award 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/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 holds
the record for the highest grossing trilogies of all
time.
In 2006 she starred in both Babel opposite Brad Pitt,
and Notes on a Scandal playing Sheba Hart opposite Dame
Judi Dench. 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. She received her third
Academy Award nomination for her performance in the film
(Dench was also Oscar nominated).
Blanchett will reprise her role as Elizabeth I in the
upcoming sequel tentatively entitled Golden Age. She is
set to star as a young Bob Dylan in the feature film I'm
Not There.
As of 2008, she and her husband will commence three-year
contracts as artistic co-directors of the Sydney Theatre
Company. The contracts include a clause that will allow
either of them to take three months out each year to
pursue other activities. Also in 2008, Blanchett will
play as of yet an unspecified role in the forthcoming
Indiana Jones IV, tentatively scheduled for a May 22,
2008 release.
Blanchett also works as the face of SK-II, the luxury
skin care brand owned by Procter & Gamble. In 2007,
Blanchett was listed among Time Magazine's 100 Most
Influential People in The World.
Personal life: Cate Blanchett grew up in Ivanhoe,
a suburb of Melbourne. Blanchett's husband is playwright
and screenwriter Andrew Upton, whom she met in 1996
while she was performing in a production of The Seagull.
They were married the following year 1997. 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. 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 initial
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 and her husband returned to their
native Australia. In 2006, 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." |
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