Cate Blanchett

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Cate Blanchett
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Born	May 14 1969 (age 39) Melbourne, Australia

Cate Blanchett (born Catherine Élise Blanchett on May 14, 1969 in Melbourne, Australia) is an Academy Award(The Aviator)- and Golden Globe Award-winning Australian actress.

1 Personal life
2 Career
3 Filmography
4 Awards won
5 Awards nominated
6 Quotes
7 External links

[edit] Personal life

Blanchett was born the daughter of a Texan naval petty officer of 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, Geneviève, is a theatrical designer.

Her 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, 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 and her husband returned to their native Australia In 2006. Blanchett said in a Vogue magazine 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."

[edit] Career

Blanchett's secondary education was in Melbourne at the 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. 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 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 Company B production of Hamlet, directed by Neil Armfield, starring Richard Roxburgh and Geoffrey Rush.

She has also appeared in roles in Australian television. She appeared in the mini-series Heartland opposite Ernie Dingo, the mini-series Bordertown and in the Police Rescue episode, The Loaded Boy.

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, losing to Gwyneth Paltrow for Shakespeare in Love but did win the British Academy Award and a golden globe award for best actress in a motion picture drama .

The following year, Blanchett was nominated at BAFTA award for her supporting role in The Talented Mr. Ripley.

She 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/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.

Blanchett is currently reprising her role as Elizabeth I in the upcoming sequel tentatively entitled Golden Age, and is set to star as a young Bob Dylan in the upcoming biopic I'm Not There.

As of 2008, she and her husband will commence three-year contracts as co-artistic 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.

[edit] Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Award Nominations and/or Wins
2007	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button	Daisy
2006	Golden Age	Elizabeth I
	Babel	Susan
	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 with Steve Zissou	Jane Winslett-Richardson	Nominated for BFCA award for Best Acting Ensemble
2004	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
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
2002	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	Galadriel	Nominated for SAG award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast
2002	Heaven	Philippa
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
2000	The Gift	Annabelle "Annie" Wilson
2000	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 Supporting Actress
	Paradise Road	Susan Macarthy
1996	Parklands	Rosie
1994	Police Rescue	Vivian

[edit] 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
2005 Academy Award - Best Supporting Actress for The Aviator
2005 British Academy of Film and Television Arts: 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

Preceded by: Renée Zellweger for Cold Mountain	Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress 2005 for The Aviator	Succeeded by: Rachel Weisz for The Constant Gardener

[edit] 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
2004 Golden Globe Awards: Nominated for Best Actress, Drama for Veronica Guerin
2005 Golden Globe Awards: Nominated for Best Supporting Actress for The Aviator

[edit] 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."