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Catherine Élise Blanchett was born on 14th May, 1969 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia of American, English, French and Scottish descent. She is an actress recognized by critics and loved by audiences. Among her honours are three British Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards and two Academy Awards. She owns a star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Cate has been active in the entertainment industry since 1989.

Is the actress who has so many accolades and so much critical acclaim rich? Sources have reported that the net worth of Cate Blanchett stands at $45 million, as of today. During the last year she has received more than $13 million as a salary for staring in the feature films that were released in 2014. Among her luxurious assets Cate owns a mansion in Sydney’s historic Hunters Hill suburb which is valued more than $15 million.

Cate Blanchett didn’t graduate from the University of Melbourne, instead graduating from the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Melbourne. The first lead role Cate landed was on the stage of theatre in the play “Oleanna” (1992) with the Sydney Theatre Company. She won Sydney Theatre Critics’ Best Newcomer Award for her role. Later, she successfully appeared in other plays including “Electra”, “Kafka Dances”, “Oleanna” and other plays. The roles she created won various awards and received critical recognition. Afterwards, she was invited to play parts in television series as “Police Rescue” (1993), “Heartland” (1994), “Bordertown” (1995) and several television films.

The actress rose to prominence after her appearance in the war film “Paradise Road” (1997) directed by Bruce Beresford. She received a nomination from Chicago Film Critics Association as the rising future star for the role of Susan Macarthy. However, she received worldwide recognition after starring in the biographical film “Elizabeth” (1998) directed by Shekhar Kapur. She was nominated for her first Academy Award as well as winning Golden Globe and BAFTA Awards. Ratings of the actress increased even more after she created the role of Galadriel in the first part of the trilogy “The Lord of the Rings” (2001) directed by Peter Jackson, which was commercial dynamite too, as the box office grossed $871.5 million, and received positive critics’ reviews. The sequels were also very successful.

In 2005, Cate Blanchett won the Academy Award for her role in the biographical film “The Aviator” (2004) directed by Martin Scorsese. Then, she was nominated for Academy Awards for roles in the films “Notes on a Scandal” (2006) directed by Richard Eyre, “Elizabeth: The Golden Age” (2007) directed by Shekhar Kapur and “I’m Not There” (2007) directed by Todd Haynes. The same year she was listed as one of the most influential people by The Times, and named the most successful actress by Forbes magazine. In addition to this, she won prestigious awards for her roles in the romantic film drama “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (2008) directed by David Fincher and the dark comedy film drama “Blue Jasmine” (2013) directed and written by Woody Allen. In 2015, four films are going to be released “Carol”, “Manifesto”, “Weightless” and “Truth” in which Cate Blanchett appears in the main cast. Currently, she is working on the upcoming films “Voyage of Time” (2016) and voicing “Jungle Book: Origins” (2017).

More, she has been acting on the theatre stage throughout all her career. Currently, she is starring in the play “The Present”.

Finally, her personal life is as successful as her career. In 1997, she married the Australian director, playwright and screenwriter Andrew Upton. The family has four children, and reside in Sydney, Australia.

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1. Highly defined cheekbones
2. Blonde hair and blue eyes
3. Known for playing many different roles with multifarious personalities, such as the young sensible English queen Elizabeth in Elizabeth (1998), the rude, hustling wife in The Shipping News (2001), and the dangerous Russian villain in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008).

Catherine Élise Blanchett Quotes

• For me it felt less about the period and more about the gaze. If the cigarette was held in a certain way and perceived by the camera in a certain way, it was because it was viewed through the prism of someone’s desire, rather than the prism of the period.
• [on Blue Jasmine (2013)] Every day on set I’d tell myself: don’t screw up. It wasn’t born out of anxiety, it was just pragmatic. You’ve been given a really great opportunity – it’s my job to make it jump off the page. Not to make it less than Woody’s offering. But I say that to myself every time. I’m not particularly needy and I’m not particularly anxious. I don’t look for a director to tell me I’m doing a good job, or that I’m great. I don’t need to be stroked. It’s more my own yardstick.
• [on her reaction when her father died when she was 10 years old] I was playing the piano. He walked past the window. I waved goodbye [but didn’t hug or kiss him]. He was going off to work. He had a heart attack that day. He was only forty. I developed this ritual where I couldn’t leave the house until I could actually physically say goodbye to everyone.
• I always remember something that Michelle Pfeiffer said a few years ago, which is that if you put a dollar in a jar every time you screw up with your children, then by the time they’re grown you’ll have saved enough to pay for their therapy. And I think that’s true – although with inflation it’s probably gone up to five dollars by now!
• [on why she got involved with How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014)] It’s a gift to be a part of a project like this. My children and I adored the first. And so when Dean [DeBlois, writer/director of “How to Train Your Dragon 2”] ambushed me a few years ago at an awards ceremony, I was intrigued. As an actor, you’re used to using your body, your face, everything you can to communicate stuff. And when you have to only do it through your voice, and you’re doing it in tandem with the most extraordinary, state-of-the-art animation, I found it an intriguing ride over the last three-and-a-half, four years to watch the character evolve quite separate from me, and how you can enhance and work with what the animators are doing. I didn’t actually get to work with the other actors. I acted opposite Dean most of the time. It was very interesting.
• [on if she get fed up with being asked how she handles motherhood and her career] That question is only directed toward women: “How do you have it all?” I think we live in a world where there’s still not equal pay for equal work. I still don’t understand how in 2014 why that’s not the case. I’m not necessarily talking about the industry in which we work. It’s every industry. I think the things that have been said about women not only in African countries but also the English-speaking world is absolutely appalling. I think sometimes we’re back in the Middle Ages. But I’m an actress at a film festival [Cannes 2014]. I can cope with those questions, but it’s still surprising that we’re still asking those questions.
• [on who’s the best between her and Marion Cotillard – Cannes Film Festival, 2014] There is no competition. Marion, hands down. I think she is one of the world’s greatest actresses. From the first few frames of La Vie en Rose (2007), I just thought that I’d never seen anything like it. To see her in comic roles, and I was blown away again in Rust and Bone (2012). We share the same agent at CAA, much to my chagrin. I think she’s a genius. I can’t wait to see her Lady Macbeth.
• [on winning her 2nd Oscar for Blue Jasmine (2013)] Sit down. You’re too old to be standing. Thank you, Mr. Day-Lewis, from you it exacerbates this honor to and it blows it right out of the ballpark. Thank you so much to the Academy. As random and as subjective as this award is, it means a great deal in a year of extraordinary, yet again, extraordinary performances by women. Amy Adams, everything you do, but your performance in American Hustle blew my mind. And Meryl, what can I say? Sandra [Bullock], I could watch that performance to the end of time, and I sort of felt like I had. Julia [Roberts], #suckit. You know what I mean? And Judi Dench, I mean what a career. She’s not here tonight because at the age of 79, her film was so successful that she’s in India doing a sequel. I mean what a career that is, if I could hope. And me, I’m here accepting an award in an extraordinary screenplay by Woody Allen. Thank you so much, Woody, for casting me. I truly appreciate it. I’m so very proud that Blue Jasmine stayed in the cinemas for as long as it did. And thank you to Sony Classics, to Michael and Tom for their extraordinary support. For so bravely and intelligently distributing the film and to the audiences who went to see it and perhaps those of us in the industry who are still foolishly clinging to the idea that female films with women at the center are niche experiences. They are not. Audiences want to see them and, in fact, they earn money. The world is round, people. Thank you to my mum, to my sister, to my brother, to my three glorious sons. I would not be standing here without you. To my husband, Andrew, you are a legend. Thank you to my agent, Hylda Queally, you’re behind the pillar somewhere up there. You are a goddess. To my agent in Australia, Robyn Gardiner, I love you so very much. To my publicist Lisa Kasteler. To the sublime Sally Hawkins. And to the extraordinary cast of Blue Jasmine. I don’t know how to do this without other actors and this I share with you. To the hair and makeup people who sweat-ed me up and tried to make me look attractive. Thank you for the attempt. To Carla Meyer for getting Sally and I together and for incredible support. To Helen Robin. To everyone involved in Blue Jasmine, I thank you so much. And finally, I would like to thank every single member of the Sydney Theatre Company, one of the great theater companies in the world. For me, working on Blue Jasmine, it was a real synthesis of my work in the theater and on film. And not only working with you for the last six years has been the most enormous privilege of my career but it’s made me a better actress. There is so much talent in Australia and Michael Wilkinson and C.M. and I are just tonight’s tip of the iceberg. Thank you so much. Thank you.
• Working with Woody [Allen] is like an emotional strip club without the cash.
• You don’t ever really get to know Woody Allen. He’s not the sort of person where you can knock on his door and say: “I’ve got this really interesting idea.” You just have to hope that he’s written your name on a little scrap of paper somewhere and that one day he will call and say: “I’ve got a script I want you to read.”
• I’ve done a lot of talking over the past six years. My husband and I have been running the Sydney Theatre Company and it’s been magic – my kids have been able to see so many of those transient moments between acting and real life behind the scenes. But now that I’ve given it up I’m looking forward to being a bit quieter. I’m very conscious of that. There have been times when I’ve heard myself in the past and thought: “Aw, just shut up.”
• I can be a real pessimist. You know that when you win an Oscar and you walk offstage and your first thought is: “Oh God, I’ve peaked.”
• I don’t know if I ever really wanted to be an actor. I’m an active person – the thought of waiting for the phone to ring wasn’t something that sat happily with me. But I kept doing it, trying not to do it, and then doing it. There’s such a blessed unrest that you feel all the time, but maybe that’s what keeps you going.
• No one is ever who they purport to be. And I suppose I’m most interested in the gap between who we project socially and who we really are.
• I love Brighton. We lived in Lewes Crescent and it was the genesis of the rabbit hole in Alice in Wonderland; so magical.
• [on being directed by Woody Allen in Blue Jasmine (2013)] I found him forthcoming, generous and refreshingly honest. It can be brutal when people are honest, but I much prefer to know if it’s not working, because you can do something with it – rather than people who go, ‘Oh, we’ll fix it up in post [-production].’ There is no post in a Woody Allen movie. If it doesn’t happen then, it doesn’t happen at all.
• [I have] this strange, probably unachievable fantasy about performing in German in Berlin. [But] I don’t speak German.
• [In 2012, on collaborating with husband Andrew Upton]: We’ve had some doozies and we’ve had some stinkers. No one sets out to have a stinker.
• Don’t you think like most things, like comedy, like sex, like anything, it’s about timing? I think [my husband and I] collided with each other at what turned out to be the perfect time. We knew each other socially and we didn’t get on and we played poker one night and I don’t know how we ended up kissing but we did and he asked me to marry him about three weeks later and we got together in the same spirit. . . . Maybe I’ve got a lack of consequence, a healthy lack of consequence.
• Of course one worries about getting older–we’re all fearful of death, let’s not kid ourselves. I’m simply not panicking as my laugh lines grow deeper. Who wants a face with no history, no sense of humor?
• [on her first Oscar loss, in 1999] Sometimes I think it’s so good not to win those things. And, anyway, who wants to peak when they’re 28?
• There’s this sense that of course you want to be famous. When you’re a performer, of course you want an audience, but it’s very, very different from courting fame.
• You know, when you see yourself on a big screen, I tend to watch from behind my hands. There is absolutely the regret. You always get that at the end of every project. That’s what’s great about theater: at least every night you get the chance to go out and re-offend. I’m endlessly disappointed, which is what propels me into the next project, probably, not to repair the damage but to kind of hopefully keep developing. Otherwise there’s no reason to keep doing it, is there?
• I’m one of those strange beasts who really likes a corset.
• [on the pressures women face regarding plastic surgery] It’s not just women on film, 18-year-old girls feel pressure to do preventative injecting. I see someone’s face, someone’s body who’d had children and I think they’re the song lines of your experience, and why would you want to eradicate that? I look at people sort of entombing themselves and all you see is their little pin holes of terror… and you think, just live your life, death is not going to be any easier just because your face can’t move.
• [SAG acceptance speech Feb. 5, 2005] Thank you. I so didn’t expected this. I wore a really tight dress that’s very ungracious walking up those stairs. Thank you very much, I sort of don’t know where to begin. Playing Katharine Hepburn, I absolutely did not expect to be standing here in front of you all. But Hepburn aside, I actually would like to say, as an actor coming from another country to this country, I am so astounded and amazed, and grateful, at the power of the SAG union and what it does for its members. And I hope that other countries, mine own included, you know, is inspired by that – I think it’s incredible.
• The more you do it, the more you learn to concentrate, as a child does, incredibly intensively and then you sort of have to relax. I remember the first film I did, the lead actor would in between scenes be reading a newspaper or sleeping and I’d think, “How can you do that?”
• [on working with Ron Howard in The Missing (2003)] I loved making it, I had a ball – cowboys and Indians. This is the thing, I love doing things which I’d never envisaged before. And so getting me on the back of a horse, with Tommy Lee Jones and shooting guns and chasing Indians, it’s just not something that I would have expected myself to be doing.
• It’s part of my job. You can’t play Veronica Guerin puts on heavy Strine] sounding like this. It just wouldn’t wash. But what I find fascinating about doing an accent – unless it’s a farce – is that it’s not slapped on. [on doing many accents]
• 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.
• [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.
• When asked if she has ever appeared in Neighbours (1985): “Absolutely not. I’m an actress.”
• When asked what colour her hair is: “Look, it’s one of the great mysteries of the world, I cannot answer that question. I think I’m vaguely blonde. To be perfectly frank, I don’t know.”
• If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously!

Catherine Élise Blanchett Important Facts

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• She has worked with 9 directors who have won a Best Director Oscar: Anthony Minghella, Barry Levinson, Peter Jackson, Ron Howard, Martin Scorsese, Steven Soderbergh, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Steven Spielberg, and Woody Allen.
• Shared the cover of Vanity Fair magazine’s 2016 Hollywood issue with, Jane Fonda, Viola Davis, Jennifer Lawrence, Charlotte Rampling, Rachel Weisz, Lupita Nyong’o, Brie Larson, Alicia Vikander, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Helen Mirren, Diane Keaton and Saoirse Ronan. Photographed by Annie Leibovitz.
• Blanchett and her The Aviator (2004) co-star, Leonardo DiCaprio, have been nominated for Oscars in the same year four times: in 2005 both of them were nominated for The Aviator; in 2007 for Blood Diamond (2006) (DiCaprio) and Notes on a Scandal (2006) (Blanchett); in 2014 for The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) (DiCaprio) and Blue Jasmine (2013) (Blanchett), and in 2016 for The Revenant (2015) (DiCaprio) and Carol (2015) (Blanchett).
• Has American citizenship due to her father being American.
• Blanchett and Kate Winslet have both received their seventh Academy Award nomination in 2016. Winslet for Best Supporting Actress for Steve Jobs (2015), and Blanchett for Best Actress for Carol (2015).
• Is the 4th youngest actress (at age 46) to have received 7 Academy Award nominations; those younger are Bette Davis (at age 36), Meryl Streep (at age 38) and Kate Winslet (at age 40).
• In 2009, she was among four Oscar-winning Australian actors to be immortalized onto postage stamps in their home country. Each of the actors has two stamps, showing them both in and out of character.
• Is one of 9 actresses who have received an Academy Award nomination for portraying a real-life queen. The others in chronological order are Norma Shearer for Marie Antoinette (1938), Katharine Hepburn for The Lion in Winter (1968), Geneviève Bujold for Anne of the Thousand Days (1969), Vanessa Redgrave for Mary, Queen of Scots (1971), Janet Suzman for Nicholas and Alexandra (1971), Helen Mirren for The Madness of King George (1994) and The Queen (2006), Judi Dench for Mrs Brown (1997) and Shakespeare in Love (1998), and Helena Bonham Carter for The King’s Speech (2010).
• An avid fan of the horror genre, her particular favorites were the Sherlock Holmes movies with Basil Rathbone, The Scarlet Claw (1944) being especially memorable. Also includes among her favorites Burnt Offerings (1976) and the “Halloween” series of films.
• Eddie Redmayne starred with Blanchett in Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007). In 2015, Blanchett presented him the Oscar for Best Actor for The Theory of Everything (2014), having won the Best Actress Oscar one year before for Blue Jasmine (2013).
• Was the original choice for the role of Marianne in A Bigger Splash (2015). The part eventually went to Tilda Swinton.
• Was Ridley Scott’s original choice for the role of Commander Lewis in The Martian (2015), but turned it down due to a scheduling conflict.
• (December 29, 1997) Married her boyfriend of a year Andrew Upton. They met in 1996 on the set of a TV show. The wedding took place in the National Park “Blue Mountains” in New South Wales. Soon after the wedding she started filming Elizabeth (1998).
• (March 6, 2015) Adopted her 4th child, a daughter named Edith Vivian Patricia Upton, with her husband Andrew Upton.
• Gave birth to her 1st child at age 32, a son named Dashiell John Upton on December 3, 2001. He was named after her husband’s favourite author Dashiell Hammett. Child’s father is her husband, Andrew Upton.
• Was unknowingly pregnant with her son Roman while portraying the pregnant journalist in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004).
• Returned to work 7 months after giving birth to her son Dashiell in order to begin filming Veronica Guerin (2003).
• Gave birth to her 3rd child at age 38, a son named Ignatius Martin Upton on April 13, 2008. Child’s father is her husband, Andrew Upton.
• Was 3 months pregnant with her son Ignatius when she completed filming Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008).
• Gave birth to her 2nd child at age 34, a son named Roman Robert Upton on April 23, 2004. Child’s father is her husband, Andrew Upton.
• Returned to work 6 months after giving birth to her son Roman in order to begin filming Little Fish (2005).
• In 2014, during the Press Conference of How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) at the Cannes Film Festival, a journalist asked Blanchett who’s better between her and Marion Cotillard, she answered saying that Cotillard is better and praised her performances in La Vie en Rose (2007) and Rust and Bone (2012) and also said that she couldn’t wait to see Cotillard as Lady Macbeth [in Macbeth (2015)].
• She has made seven films with Peter Jackson: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002), The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), Hot Fuzz (2007), The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012), The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013) and The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014). Hot Fuzz (2007) is the only one that Jackson did not direct.
• Along with Ian McKellen, she is one of only two actors to appear in all six of Peter Jackson’s Middle-earth films: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002), The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012), The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013) and The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014).
• Her first Oscar nomination was for playing Queen Elizabeth I in Elizabeth (1998), the same year that Judi Dench won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for playing that same role in Shakespeare in Love (1998). She went on to win her first Oscar for playing another Oscar winner: Katharine Hepburn in The Aviator (2004).
• Holds the record for largest “Best Actress” award sweep (42 wins) for her performance as Jasmine French in Blue Jasmine (2013), followed by Helen Mirren (40 wins) for her performance as Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen (2006) and Natalie Portman (38 wins) for her performance as Nina Sayers in Black Swan (2010).
• Is one of 13 actresses to have won the Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Critics’ Choice Award, Golden Globe Award and SAG Award for the same performance. The others in chronological order are Julia Roberts for Erin Brockovich (2000), Renée Zellweger for Cold Mountain (2003), Reese Witherspoon for Walk the Line (2005), Helen Mirren for The Queen (2006), Jennifer Hudson for Dreamgirls (2006), Kate Winslet for The Reader (2008), Mo’Nique for Precious (2009), Natalie Portman for Black Swan (2010), Octavia Spencer for The Help (2011), Anne Hathaway for Les Misérables (2012), Patricia Arquette for Boyhood (2014) and Julianne Moore for Still Alice (2014).
• Dedicated her 2014 BAFTA Award to Philip Seymour Hoffman who had recently passed away.
• Shaved her head at 15 and as a result was almost fired from her job at a nursing home.
• Was the 126th actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for The Aviator (2004) at The 77th Annual Academy Awards (2005) on February 27, 2005.
• The only actor to be nominated and win Oscars for both of the iconoclast New York directors Martin Scorsese and Woody Allen.
• Is only the sixth actress to win both leading and supporting actress Oscars. The other five are Maggie Smith, Meryl Streep, Jessica Lange, Helen Hayes and Ingrid Bergman.
• The longest she has gone without an Oscar nomination is the 6 years between both Elizabeth (1998) and The Aviator (2004) and Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007), I’m Not There. (2007) and Blue Jasmine (2013).
• Holds the record as the only Australian actress to win two Academy Awards.
• She said the pronunciation of her last name accustomed to is BLAN-chett, as opposed to Blan-CHETT.
• In 2008, although she was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar for her performance in Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007), she publicly declared that she had voted for Marion Cotillard in La Vie en Rose (2007), and described her performance as Édith Piaf as “astonishing and inspiring”. When Cotillard was announced as the winner, Blanchett was visibly happy for her win. In 2012, Blanchett wrote an op-ed for Variety praising Cotillard’s performance in Rust and Bone (2012).
• Her older brother Bob is smart but has a mild form of cerebral palsy. When they were growing up, Cate always stuck up for him when the other children made fun of him. Later, when she gave birth to her second child Roman, she gave him the middle name of Bob, named after Cate’s brother. (Bob is also her father and her grandfather’s names.) And when she won the Academy Award as Best Actress for Blue Jasmine (2013), she thanked him in her acceptance speech.
• Five directors cast her more than once in their films: Gillian Armstrong, Shekhar Kapur, Steven Soderbergh, Todd Haynes, and Peter Jackson.
• Grew up in the suburb of Eaglemont, part of the Greater Melbourne area.
• Washington, D.C: Performing in Anton Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya” at The Kennedy Center with her and husband Andrew Upton’s group, the Sydney Theatre Company. [August 2011]
• (France) Promoting Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) at the Cannes Film Festival. [May 2008]
• Sydney Theatre Company announced that husband and wife Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton would become artistic directors, beginning in 2008. [November 2006]
• New York, NY: It was announced that she, as well as Ralph Fiennes, will be honored by gala tributes (separately) in October by the Film Society of Lincoln Center during its annual film festival. [August 2013]
• Performing in “The War Of The Roses” in Sydney, Australia. [January 2009]
• She was on set for only 8 days to shoot her scenes for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) and the two follow-ups.
• Was originally cast as Izzi Creo in The Fountain (2006), but was forced to drop out of the film due to scheduling conflicts with Little Fish (2005). Rachel Weisz was then cast instead.
• Her portrayal of Irina Spalko in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) is director Steven Spielberg’s favorite villain in the Indiana Jones series.
• Was originally cast as Mrs. Fox in Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), but was later replaced by Meryl Streep.
• She was awarded the Australian Centenary Medal in the 2001 Queen’s New Years Honours List for her services to acting and Australian society.
• She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Motion Picture at 6712 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on December 5, 2008.
• Did not return to work until six months after giving birth to her son Ignatius in order to take to the stage for a Broadway revival of “A Streetcar Named Desire”, where she portrayed Blanche DuBois.
• Lives in Hunters Hill, Sydney, Australia.
• Got the role in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) after Rachel Weisz backed out, because of scheduling problems.
• Good friends with actress Nicole Kidman.
• Was listed as a potential nominee for the 2008 Razzies (but did not make the final ballot) for her performance as “Queen Elizabeth I” in Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007), a performance that earned her another Oscar nomination. Had she earned a Razzie nod, she would have been one of the few actors to have a Razzie and Oscar nomination for the same performance.
• She is only one of six performers (and the only female) to be nominated for an Oscar twice for playing the same role in two separate films. She was nominated as Elizabeth I in Elizabeth (1998) and Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007). The other five are Bing Crosby as Father O’Malley in Going My Way (1944) and The Bells of St. Mary’s (1945), Peter O’Toole as Henry II in Becket (1964) and The Lion in Winter (1968), Al Pacino as Michael Corleone in The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather: Part II (1974), Paul Newman as Fast Eddie Felson in The Hustler (1961) and The Color of Money (1986), and Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa in Rocky (1976) and Creed (2015).
• She, Linda Hunt and Felicity Huffman are the only performers to be nominated for an Oscar for playing a member of the opposite sex.
• Along with Fay Bainter, Teresa Wright, Barry Fitzgerald, Jessica Lange, Sigourney Weaver, Al Pacino, Holly Hunter, Emma Thompson, Julianne Moore and Jamie Foxx, she is one of only eleven actors to receive Academy Award nominations in two acting categories in the same year. She was nominated for Best Actress for Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007) and Best Supporting Actress for I’m Not There. (2007) at the 80th Academy Awards in 2008.
• In 2007, Forbes Magazine estimated her earnings for the year at $13 million.
• Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#31). [2007].
• Dec. 2007 – Ranked #45 on EW’s The 50 Smartest People in Hollywood.
• Was Steven Spielberg’s first choice for the role or Agatha in Minority Report (2002). After the death of Stanley Kubrick, he made A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) his first priority, and she moved on to other projects. She was later able to work with Spielberg in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008).
• She and her The Shipping News (2001) and Notes on a Scandal (2006) co-star Judi Dench both received Oscar-nominations for playing Queen Elizabeth I in 1999. Dench won for her supporting role in Shakespeare in Love (1998) while Blanchett was nominated for Elizabeth (1998).
• Was officially in the BAFTA longlist (Equivalently, the semi-finals) for Best Actress in a Leading Role, for her role in Notes on a Scandal (2006) (unlike the Oscars, where she was competing for Supporting Role), which consisted of 15 finalists for each category (except Animated Film). However, she was eliminated in the next round, which the five official nominees were selected. [2007]
• Her Texan father, Robert Blanchett, met her mother, June, in Melbourne, Australia. He decided to marry her and relocate to Australia and raise a family.
• 15th February 2005: Attended the 2005 Elle Style Awards held at London’s trendy Spitalfields Market. Posed for photos with fellow Australian Kylie Minogue, who was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
• Was considered for the role of Jane Smith in Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005).
• In Bandits (2001), she works with Troy Garity. In The Aviator (2004), she plays Katharine Hepburn, who appeared with Garity’s mother, Jane Fonda and grandfather, Henry Fonda, in On Golden Pond (1981).
• She appeared in 7 films nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award, four of them in a row: Elizabeth (1998), The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002), The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), The Aviator (2004), Babel (2006), and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008).
• In “The Lord of the Rings”, she worked with Elijah Wood and Sean Astin, who played “Frodo” and “Sam”, respectively. Also appearing with her in those films, as well as in The Aviator (2004), was Ian Holm, who played “Frodo” in the BBC radio series. In Notes on a Scandal (2006), she worked with Bill Nighy, who played “Sam” in the BBC radio series. In Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007), she worked with Samantha Morton, who is engaged to Ian Holm’s son, Harry Holm.
• Her father, Robert DeWitt Blanchett, Jr., was born in Texas, to a family that had been based in the American South for many generations. Her grandfather, Robert DeWitt Blanchett, Sr., was born in 1905 in Arkansas, where he was also buried in 1989. Her paternal grandmother, Merle Jenevieve (King), was born in Oklahoma. Her father was of distant French descent; much of Cate’s other ancestry from both of her parents is British Isles: English, Scottish, and some Northern Irish.
• Appeared next to Hugo Weaving in 9 different projects: Bordertown (1995), Drama School (2000), Little Fish (2005), The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age (2004), The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002), The Making of ‘The Lord of the Rings’ (2002), Quest for the Ring (2001).
• Won Best Female Actor, Helpmann Award for her performance in “Hedda Gabler”. [2005]
• Four of her six Oscar nominations are for playing real people (Queen Elizabeth I, Katharine Hepburn and Bob Dylan). The latter two are both Oscar winners themselves.
• 1992: Graduated from Australia’s NIDA (National Institute of Dramatic Art).
• Won the Rosemont Best Actress Award for her performance in “Oleanna”.
• 1995: Nominated for Best Female Performance by the Melbourne Green Room Awards, for the Belvoir St Theatre Company’s production of “Hamlet”.
• In The Aviator (2004), she works opposite Leonardo DiCaprio, who plays Howard Hughes. The year before, she appeared in The Missing (2003) with Tommy Lee Jones. Jones played Hughes years earlier in The Amazing Howard Hughes (1977).
• In The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), she appears with Anjelica Huston, and in The Aviator (2004), she works with Danny Huston, the daughter and son, respectively, of director John Huston. In addition to having played Katharine Hepburn, who appeared in The African Queen (1951), directed by John Huston, she also appeared in a remake of a film that John Huston appeared in: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003).
• By winning the Oscar for her portrayal of Katharine Hepburn, she became the first person to give an Oscar-winning portrayal of a previous Oscar winner.
• Was set to play “Portia” in Michael Radford’s adaptation of William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice (2004), thus reuniting with actor Joseph Fiennes, her co-star from the blockbuster Elizabeth (1998), but had to drop out after discovering her pregnancy. This also would have reunited her with Ian McKellen, with whom she appeared in “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy, who would have played “Shylock”. He too ultimately left the project.
• September 2004: Flew back home to Melbourne, Australia to launch the skincare range from SK-II at Australia’s leading department store Myer. As of September 2011, she was still featured in full-page print ads for the same cosmetic.
• Was the original ‘Tim-Tam’ girl in the series of commercials promoting the product.
• Was originally going to play the role of Anna in Mike Nichols’s latest film Closer (2004), but due to her second pregnancy she had to drop out, so it was recast with Julia Roberts instead.
• As os 2015, has been in 8 movies where the title contains the name of the character she plays: Veronica Guerin (2003), Charlotte Gray (2001), Elizabeth (1998), Thank God He Met Lizzie (1997), Oscar and Lucinda (1997), Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007), Blue Jasmine (2013) and Carol (2015).
• Chosen as one of People Magazine’s 50 Most Beautiful People in the World. [1999]
• Enjoys making lists and crossing items off as she accomplishes them.
• In an interview she gave to Fox Television Network, she admitted blushingly that she had accepted the role of Galadriel, the Elf Queen, in the Lord of the Rings trilogy because she always wanted to appear in a movie wearing pointed ears.
• Was considered for the role of Clarice Starling in Hannibal (2001). The part eventually went to Julianne Moore.
• After completing work on the Lord of the Rings trilogy in the role of Galadriel, she kept and bronzed her elf ear prosthetics.
• Her father, (Robert Blanchett) a Texan advertising executive, died of a heart attack when she was ten years old.
• Attended Methodist Ladies College (MLC) in Melbourne, Australia and was the School Drama Captain.
• When she was 18, Cate was on vacation in Egypt. A fellow guest at a cheap hotel in Cairo asked if she wanted to be an extra in a movie, the Egyptian boxing movie Kaboria [Crabs (1990)], directed by Khairy Beshara. She appeared in 3 scenes in that movie, in one of them she was dancing to the main song of the movie.
• Has an older brother named Bob who works in the computer field, and a younger sister, Genevieve who is a theater designer.
• 1993: She was the first person to win the Sydney Theatre Critic’s Circle Theatre award for Best Newcomer (for her role in “Kafka Dances”), and Best Lead Actress (for her role in David Mamet’s “Oleanna”, with the Sydney Theatre Company, opposite Shine (1996) star Geoffrey Rush in the same year.

Catherine Élise Blanchett Filmography

Catherine Élise Blanchett Awards