The Cate Blanchett Handbook - Everything you need to know about Cate Blanchett

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Catherine Élise 'Cate' Blanchett (born 14 May 1969) is an Australian actress. She came to international attention for her role as Elizabeth I of England in the 1998 biopic film Elizabeth, for which she won British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) and Golden Globe Awards, and earned her first Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. Blanchett appeared as the elf queen Galadriel in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy from 2001 to 2003. It is confirmed that she is to reprise her role in the upcoming Hobbit films.

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In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about her Early life, Career and Personal life right away. A quick look inside: Cate Blanchett, Police Rescue, Parklands (film), Oscar and Lucinda (film), Thank God He Met Lizzie, Paradise Road (1997 film), Elizabeth (film), The Talented Mr. Ripley (film), Pushing Tin, An Ideal Husband (1999 film), The Gift (2000 film), The Man Who Cried, The Shipping News (film), Charlotte Gray (film), The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Bandits.

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Contents

Articles Cate Blanchett Police Rescue Parklands (film) Oscar and Lucinda (film) Thank God He Met Lizzie Paradise Road (1997 film) Elizabeth (film) The Talented Mr. Ripley (film) Pushing Tin An Ideal Husband (1999 film) The Gift (2000 film) The Man Who Cried The Shipping News (film) Charlotte Gray (film) The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Bandits

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Blanchett at the 2011 Sydney Film Festival

Born

Occupation

Years active

Spouse

Parents

Catherine lise Blanchett 14 May 1969 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Actress

1993–present

Andrew Upton (m. 1997–present; 3 children)

Robert DeWitt Blanchett, Jr. (father) June Gamble (mother)

Catherine Élise "Cate" Blanchett( English pronunciation: /ˈblɑːntʃ.ət/; born 14 May 1969) is an Australian actress. She came to international attention for her role as Elizabeth I of England in the 1998 biopic filmElizabeth, for which she won British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) and Golden Globe Awards, and earned her first Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. Blanchett appeared as the elf queen Galadriel in Peter Jackson'sThe Lord of the Ringstrilogy from 2001 to 2003. It is confirmed that she is to reprise her role in the upcomingHobbit films. In 2004, Blanchett's portrayal of Katharine Hepburn in Martin Scorsese'sThe Aviatorbrought her numerous awards, including an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Blanchett's other films includeBabel(2006), Notes on a Scandal(2006),Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull(2008), andThe Curious Case of Benjamin Button(2008). Blanchett's work has earned her several accolades, including a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, two BAFTAs, and an Academy Award. Due to her success and [1] character variety, critics have often called her "the new Meryl Streep" or "the Meryl Streep of the next generation". [2] [3] [4] [5] Blanchett and her husband, Andrew Upton, are currently artistic directors of the Sydney Theatre Company.

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Early life and education Blanchett was born in the Melbourne suburb of Ivanhoe. Her mother, June (nae Gamble), was an Australian property developer and teacher, and her father, Robert DeWitt Blanchett, Jr., was a Texas native who was a US Navy Petty [6] [7] Officer and later worked as an advertising executive. The two met while Blanchett's father's ship, USSArneb, [8] was in Melbourne. When Blanchett was ten, she lost her father to a heart attack. She has two siblings; her older brother, Bob, is a computer systems engineer, and her younger sister, Genevieve, worked as a theatrical designer and [9] received her Bachelor of Design in Architecture in April 2008. [9] Blanchett has described herself as being "part extrovert, part wallflower" during childhood. She attended a primary school in Melbourne at Ivanhoe East Primary School. For her secondary education, she attended Ivanhoe Girls' Grammar School and then Methodist Ladies' College, from which she graduated, where she explored her passion for [10] acting. She studied Economics and Fine Arts at the University of Melbourne before leaving Australia to travel overseas. When she was eighteen, Blanchett went on a vacation to Egypt. A fellow guest at a 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 losing to an Egyptian in the filmKaboria, starring the Egyptian actor Ahmad Zaki. Blanchett returned to Australia and later moved to Sydney to study at the National Institute of Dramatic Art, graduating in 1992 and [8] beginning her career in the theatre.

Career Her first major stage role was opposite Geoffrey Rush in the 1993 David Mamet playOleanna, for which she won [11] theSydney Theatre Critics' Best Newcomer Awardalso appeared as Ophelia in an acclaimed 1994. She –95 Company B production ofHamlet, directed by Neil Armfield, starring Rush and Richard Roxburgh. Blanchett appeared in the TV miniseriesHeartlandopposite Ernie Dingo, the miniseriesBordertown, with Hugo Weaving, and in an episode ofPolice Rescueentitled "The Loaded Boy". She also appeared in the 1994 telemovie of Police Rescueas a teacher taken hostage by armed bandits, and in the 50-minute dramaParklands(1996), which received a limited release in Australian cinemas. Also in 1994, she played a non-reoccurring role in an episode of the long-running Australian TV series GP, as Janie Morris, a woman living with her brother (Daniel Lapaine as Sean Morris) in a consensual incestuous relationship. Their relationship is torn apart when their mother comes to visit, and [12] notices that only one bed appears to be slept in regularly. Blanchett made her international film debut with a supporting role as an Australian nurse captured by the Japanese Army during World War II, in Bruce Beresford's 1997 filmParadise Road, which co-starred Glenn Close and [8] Frances McDormand. Her first leading role, also in 1997, was as Lucinda Leplastrier, in Gillian Armstrong's [8] production ofOscar and Lucinda, opposite Ralph Fiennes. Blanchett was nominated for her first Australian Film Institute Award as Best Leading Actress for this role, and lost out to Pamela Rabe inThe Well. She did, however, win an AFI Award as Supporting Actress in the same year for her role as Lizzie in the romantic-comedyThank God He Met Lizzie, co-starring Richard Roxburgh and Frances O'Connor. Her first high-profile international role was as Elizabeth I of England in the 1998 movieElizabeth, which earned her [8] 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 Award (BAFTA) 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 [8] role inThe Talented Mr. Ripley. Already an acclaimed actress, Blanchett received a host of new fans when she appeared in Peter Jackson'sThe Lord [8] of the Rings. She played the role of Galadriel in all three films. The trilogy holds the record as the highest grossing [13] film trilogy of all time. In 2005, she won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for playing Katharine Hepburn in Martin Scorsese'sThe Aviator. This made Blanchett the first person to garner an Academy Award for

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playing a previous Oscar-winning actor/actress. In 2006, she starred inBabelopposite Brad Pitt,The Good German with George Clooney andNotes on a Scandalopposite Dame Judi Dench. Blanchett received her third Academy Award nomination for her performance in the film (Dench was also Oscar nominated).

In 2007, Blanchett was named as one ofTime magazine's100 Most Influential People In The World and also one of the most successful actresses by Forbes magazine.

In 2007, she won the Volpi Cup Best Actress Award at the Venice Film Festival and the Best Supporting Actress Golden Globe Award for portraying one of six incarnations of Bob Dylan in Todd Haynes' feature filmI'm Not Thereand reprised her role as Elizabeth I in the [14] sequel,Elizabeth: The Golden Age . At the 80th Academy Awards Blanchett received two Academy Award nominations; Best Actress for Elizabeth: the Golden Ageand Best Supporting Actress forI'm Not There, becoming the eleventh actor to receive two acting nominations in the same year and the first female actor to receive another [15] nomination for the reprisal of a role.

Blanchett at the Berlin International Film Festival, 2007.

She next starred in Steven Spielberg'sIndiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skullas the villainous KGB agent Col. Dr. Irina Spalko, and in David Fincher'sThe Curious Case of Benjamin Button, appearing on screen with Brad Pitt for a second time. On 5 December 2008, Blanchett was honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6712 Hollywood [16] Boulevard in front of Grauman's Egyptian Theatre. As of 2010, Blanchett has been featured in seven films that were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture:Elizabeth(1998),The Lord of the Rings trilogy(2001, 2002 and 2003),The Aviator(2004),Babel(2006), andThe Curious Case of Benjamin Button(2008). [17] Blanchett provided a voice for the filmPonyo, and appeared opposite Russell Crowe in Ridley Scott'sRobin Hood, released on 14 May 2010. It was announced that Blanchett will reprise her role as Galadriel in Jackson's upcoming films ofThe Hobbitin 2012 [18] and 2013, filmed in New Zealand. She is set to appear in two films directed by Terrence Malick,LawlessandKnight of Cups. Both are scheduled to be [19] filmed in 2012.

Personal life

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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 on 29 December 1997 and have three sons: Dashiell John (born 3 December 2001), Roman Robert (born 23 April 2004), and Ignatius Martin (born 13 April 2008).

After making Brighton, England, their main family home for much of the early 2000s, she and her husband returned to their native Australia. In November 2006, Blanchett stated that this was due to a desire to Blanchett at the Berlin International Film decide on a permanent home for her children, and to be closer to her Festival, 2005 family as well as a sense of belonging to the Australian (theatrical) [20] community. She and her family live in "Bulwarra", an 1877 sandstone mansion in the harbourside Sydney suburb of Hunters Hill. It was purchased for A$10.2bmillion in 2004 and underwent extensive renovations in 2007 in order [21] [22] to be made more "eco-friendly". [23] In 2006, a portrait of Cate Blanchett and family painted by McLean Edwards was a finalist in the Archibald Prize. Blanchett is a Patron of the Sydney Film Festival. She works as the face of SK-II, the luxury skin care brand owned by Procter & Gamble. In 2007, Blanchett became the ambassador for the Australian Conservation Foundation's online campaign b–trying to persuade Australians to express their concerns about climate change. She is also the Patron of the development charity SolarAid. Opening the 2008 9th World Congress of Metropolis in Sydney, [24] Blanchett said: "The one thing that all great cities have in common is that they are all different." In early 2009, Blanchett appeared in a series of special edition postage stamps called "Australian Legends of the Screen", featuring Australian actors acknowledged for the "outstanding contribution they have made to Australian [25] entertainment and culture". She, Geoffrey Rush, Russell Crowe, and Nicole Kidman each appear twice in the series: once as themselves and once in character; Blanchett is depicted in character fromElizabeth: The Golden [25] Age. [26] At the beginning of 2011, Blanchett lent her support for a Carbon Tax. She received some criticism for this, [27] especially from conservatives.

Filmography

Year

1994

1996

1997

1997

1997

Title

Police Rescue: The Movie

Parklands

Oscar and Lucinda

Thank God He Met Lizzie

Paradise Road

Vivian

Rosie

Role

Lucinda Leplastrier

Lizzie

Susan Macarthy

Notes

Nominated—Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role Nominated—Film Critics Circle of Australia Award for Best Actorb– Female

Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role Film Critics Circle of Australia Award for Best Supporting Actorb–Female

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Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

Nominated—Chlotrudis Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress–Motion Picture

Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated—Chlotrudis Award for Best Supporting Actress

Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress

Kate Wheeler

2001

Bandits

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2001

The Shipping News

2001

Meredith Logue

Lady Gertrude Chiltern

1999

The Talented Mr. Ripley

An Ideal Husband

Pushing Tin

1999

The Man Who Cried

2001

Charlotte Gray

1999

Nominated—Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Actress

Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role Nominated—Chlotrudis Award for Best Supporting Actress

1999

2000

The Gift

Connie Falzone

Bangers

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Philippa

Galadriel

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

2002

Petal Quoyle

Galadriel

Annabelle "Annie" Wilson

Queen Elizabeth I

Julie-Anne

1998

Elizabeth

2002

Nominated—Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Actress–Motion Picture Drama

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Heaven

Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated—American Film Institute Award for Best Actress Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actressb–Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

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BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Chlotrudis Award for Best Actress Empire Award for Best Actress Golden Globe Award for Best Actressb–Motion Picture Drama Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Most Promising Actor London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress Satellite Award for Best Actress–Motion Picture Drama Southeastern Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actress Nominated—MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance– Female Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role