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Catherine Élise Blanchett (born on May 14, 1969) is
an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award-winning Australian actress.
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Birth name Catherine Élise Blanchett
Born May 14, 1969 (age 37)
Melbourne, Australia
Spouse(s) Andrew Upton (1997-)
Notable roles Elizabeth I in Elizabeth (1998)
Galadriel in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy
(2001-2003)
Katharine Hepburn in The Aviator (2004)
Susan Jones in Babel (2006)
Sheba Hart in Notes on a Scandal(2006)
Academy
Awards
Best Supporting Actress
2005 The Aviator
Nominated: Best Actress
1998 Elizabeth
Nominated: Best Supporting Actress
2007 Notes on a Scandal
Golden Globe Awards
Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama
1999 Elizabeth
BAFTA Awards
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
1998 Elizabeth
2004 The Aviator
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Biography
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.
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.
In 2006, Blanchett played Sheba Hart in Notes on a
Scandal opposite Dame Judi Dench, who 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 an
as yet unspecified role in the next installment of the "Indiana Jones" series,
tentatively scheduled for a May 22, 2008 release. [1]
Personal life
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 got 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 theater 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."
Filmography
Year Film Role Award Nominations and/or Wins
1996 Parklands Rosie
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 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
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
2005 Little Fish Tracy Heart Won Australian Film
Institute award (AFI) for Best Lead Actress
2006 Babel Susan 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
2007 The Golden Age Elizabeth I
Hot Fuzz Uncredited Cameo
I'm Not There Bob Dylan
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Daisy
2008 Indiana Jones 4
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
2002 Goldene Kamera (a German award): Best Actress
2003 Screen Actors Guild Awards: Best Ensemble Cast
for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2005 Academy Award - Best Supporting Actress for
The Aviator
2005 BAFTA Award: Best Supporting Actress for The
Aviator
2005 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
Awards
Preceded by
Renée Zellweger
for Cold Mountain Academy Award for Best Supporting
Actress
2004
for The Aviator Succeeded by
Rachel Weisz
for The Constant Gardener
Preceded by
Judi Dench
for Mrs. Brown Golden Globe - Best Performance by
an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
for Elizabeth
1999 Succeeded by
Hilary Swank
for Boys Don't Cry
Awards
nominated
1997 AFI Award: Best Performance by an Actress in a
Leading Role for Oscar and Lucinda
1998 Academy Award: Best Actress for Elizabeth
1999 BAFTA Award: Best Performance by an Actress in
a Supporting Role for The Talented Mr. Ripley
2001 Golden Globe Awards: Best Actress, Musical or
Comedy, for Bandits
2004 Golden Globe Awards: Best Actress, Drama for
Veronica Guerin
2005 Golden Globe Awards: Best Supporting Actress
for The Aviator
2007 Golden Globe Awards: Best Supporting Actress
for Notes on a Scandal
2007 Screen Actors Guild Awards: Best Supporting
Actress for Notes on a Scandal
2007 Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actress for
Notes on a Scandal
Quotes
Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related
to:
Cate Blanchett"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 pointy
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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