Cate Blanchett

Cate Blanchett
Blanchett at the press conference for The Good German in Berlin, February 2007.
Born	Catherine Élise Blanchett (1969-05-14) 14 May 1969 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Occupation(s)	Actress Theatre director
Years active	1993–present
Spouse(s)	Andrew Upton (m. 1997-present; 3 children)

Catherine Élise "Cate" Blanchett ((/ˈblɑːntʃ.ət/, born 14 May 1969) is an Australian actress and theatre director. After appearing in theatre and several films, Blanchett came to international attention for her role as Elizabeth I of England in the 1998 film Elizabeth winning a BAFTA, Golden Globe Award and receiving her first Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. Blanchett received critical praise in several films in the late 90's and early 2000's including The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), An Ideal Husband (1999), Bandits (2001), and came to further worldwide recognition as the elf queen Galadriel in Peter Jackson's acclaimed The Lord of the Rings trilogy. In 2004, Blanchett's portrayal of Katharine Hepburn in Martin Scorsese's The Aviator, brought her numerous awards including an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Over the past decade Blanchett has appeared in several acclaimed films including Babel, The Good German both in 2006 and the commercially successful Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button both released in 2008. She is also set to reprise her role as Galadriel in the upcoming Hobbit films. Blanchett received subsequent Academy Award nominations for Notes on a Scandal (2006), her reprised role in Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007) and I'm Not There (2007) which earned her a Volpi Cup at the 64th Venice International Film Festival. She and her husband Andrew Upton are currently artistic directors of the Sydney Theatre Company. Blanchett's work has earned her multiple acting awards and accolades, most notably, a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, two BAFTAs and an Academy Award, amongst five nominations, respectively.

Life and career

1969-1996: Early life and career beginnings

Blanchett was born in Ivanhoe, a suburb of Melbourne, the daughter of June, an Australian property developer and teacher, and Robert "Bob" Blanchett, a Texas-born US Navy Petty Officer who later worked as an advertising executive. The two met while Blanchett's father's ship, USS Arneb, was in Melbourne. When Blanchett was 10, 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 received her Bachelor of Design in Architecture in April 2008. Blanchett has described herself during childhood as "part extrovert, part wallflower". 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 acting. She studied Economics and Fine Arts at the University of Melbourne before leaving Australia to travel overseas.

When she was 18, 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 film Kaboria, 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 beginning her career in the theatre. She joined the Sydney Theatre Company where she gained more attention for her performance in Caryl Churchill's Top Girls and the Timothy Daly musical Kafka Dances won Blanchett a 1993 New Comer Award from the Sydney Theatre Critics Circle. That same year she won the Rosemont Best Actress Award in her first major stage role was opposite Geoffrey Rush in the 1993 David Mamet play Oleanna, for which she won the Sydney Theatre Critics' Best Newcomer Award. 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 TV miniseries Heartland opposite Ernie Dingo, the miniseries Bordertown, with Hugo Weaving, and in an episode of Police Rescue entitled "The Loaded Boy". Her work with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation gained Blanchett popularity in Australia and helped her venture into film. She also appeared in the 1994 television movie, Police Rescue as a teacher taken hostage by armed bandits, and in the 50-minute drama Parklands (1996), which received a limited release in Australian cinemas.

1997-2003: Breakthrough and worldwide success

In 1997, Blanchett appeared in two Australian films, Gillian Armstrong's production of Oscar and Lucinda opposite Ralph Fiennes. The film was a critical success and Blanchett's performance was praised by several critics. Emanuel Levy of Variety writes, "In a role that Judy Davis was born to play (and that was in fact intended for her years back), luminous newcomer Blanchett excels as the fiery, self-reliant female industrialist who lives by her own norms". Blanchett was nominated for her first Australian Film Institute Award as Best Leading Actress for this role but lost out to Pamela Rabe respectively. Her second film as Lizzie in the romantic-comedy Thank God He Met Lizzie won Blanchett an AFI Award as Supporting Actress in the same year as well as a Film Critics Circle of Australia Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her inernational film debut came with a supporting role as an Australian nurse captured by the Japanese Army during World War II in Bruce Beresford's 1997 film Paradise Road, which co-starred Glenn Close and Frances McDormand.

In 1998, Blanchett came to worldwide recognition in her first high-profile international role was as Elizabeth I of England in the 1998 movie Elizabeth. Directed by Shekhar Kapur, Blanchett reunited with Geoffrey Rush, along with Joseph Fiennes and Richard Attenborough. The film received critical acclaim along with Blanchett's performance, Rolling Stone writes, "Blanchett has a passionate fire and wit that command attention. The film belongs to Blanchett — this hellcat Virgin Queen is something to see." The Washington Post adds, "Cate is perfectly cast. Hardly a flibbertigibbet, the pale and thin Blanchett nevertheless possesses a beautiful fragility you can see in her translucent skin and dewy eyes" while the The New York Times writes, "Ms. Blanchett, brings spirit, beauty and substance to what might otherwise have been turned into a vacuous role". Blanchett receieved several awards including a British Academy Award (BAFTA) for Best Actress, a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama and earned her first Screen Actors Guild Award and Academy Award nomination for Best Actress but lost both to Gwyneth Paltrow for her role in Shakespeare in Love. The following year, Blanchett appeared alongside Paltrow, Jude Law, Matt Damon and Philip Seymour Hoffman in psychological thriller The Talented Mr. Ripley. The film was a substantial success and critical acclaim earning Blanchett another BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress.

Blanchett as Galadriel in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), a role she reprised for The Lord of the Rings film trilogy earning her worldwide recognition.

In 1999 Blanchett also appeared in Pushing Tin alongside John Cusack, Billy Bob Thorton, Angelina Jolie and An Ideal Husband with Minnie Driver, Rupert Everett and Julianne Moore which was released to positive reviews. The following year she appeared opposite Christina Ricci and Johnny Depp in the Anglo-French film, The Man Who Cried, though the film was met with mixed reviews. She would reunite with her An Ideal Husband co-star Julianne Moore, two years later in The Shipping News which also starred Kevin Spacey and Judi Dench. Following the film, Charlotte Gray in which Blanchett played the title-character working with her Oscar and Lucinda director Gillian Armstrong, she began work on Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings. Already an acclaimed actress, Blanchett received a host of new fans playing the role of Galadriel in 2001's, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. The film was both a critical and commercial success, becoming one of Blanchett's most commercially successful films at the time. That same year Blanchett appeared in the crime-comedy drama film, Bandits directed by Barry Levinson. She appeared with her Pushing Tin co-star, Billy Bob Thornton and Bruce Willis which was released to positive reviews. On Blanchett's performance, USA Today writes, "Blanchett reveals herself to be as impressive a comedian as she is a dramatic actress. Her daffy but perceptive Kate is light-years away from her steely, self-possessed Queen Elizabeth. She's hilarious as a lonely young matron belting out overwrought tunes like Bonnie Tyler's 'Holding Out for a Hero'". For her performance, Blanchett received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy and a SAG Award nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role.

Blanchett reprised her role as Galadriel in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) and the final film The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) which won Best Picture and earned Blanchett three consecutive Screen Actors Guild Award nominations for Best Cast winning the award in 2003 with her fellow co-stars. The trilogy holds the record as the highest grossing film trilogy of all time. While working on Lord of the Rings, Blanchett also appeared in, The Missing (2003) opposite Tommy Lee Jones and the independent film, Coffee and Cigarettes (2003). That same year Blanchett played real-life Irish crime reporter, Veronica Guerin, whose investigation into the drug trade in Dublin led to her murder in 1996, in the film of the same name. Though the film received mixed reviews, Blanchett's performance was praised, critic Roger Ebert writes, "Cate Blanchett plays Guerin in a way that fascinated me for reasons the movie probably did not intend". Blanchett earned her third Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama at the 61st Golden Globe Awards.

2004-2008: Oscar win and critical acclaim

In 2004, Blanchett appeared in the comedy-drama, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and began working in the Martin Scorcese drama film, The Aviator. Blanchett played screen legend, Katharine Hepburn opposite Leonardo DiCaprio who as aviation pioneer, Howard Hughes. Blanchett was persuaded to take the role when she was personally asked by Scorsese. Scorcese worked with Blanchett in perfecting the actress' body language and accent adding, "She just had it. She had the gesture, she had the lines to be, the body lines, the look of Katharine Hepburn. The attitude, really, Hepburn." The film was both a critical and commercial success and earned Blanchett universal praised for her portrayal, a review states, "She doesn't impersonate Katharine Hepburn; she channels her. She crystallizes something never quite realized: that Hepburn was at once jaunty—WASPily nonchalant—and at the same time monstrously high-strung." The Chicago Sun-Times states that Blanchett, "succeeds in a performance that is delightful and yet touching; mannered and tomboyish, delighting in saying exactly what she means, she shrewdly sizes up Hughes." Blanchett won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, her second SAG Award for Female Actor in a Supporting Role and a second BAFTA Award for Supporting Actress. This made Blanchett the first person to garner an Academy Award for playing a previous Oscar-winning actor/actress.

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Blanchett at the 2007 Berlin International Film Festival promoting her films, Notes on a Scandal and The Good German.

Following her Oscar win, Blanchett returned back to Australia after a short hiatus and appeared in the Australian film, Little Fish (2006) with Hugo Weaving and Sam Neill winning several Australian film awards. Blanchett then appeared opposite George Clooney in the film, The Good German (2006) directed by Steven Soderbergh. Shot in black-and-white and in film noir-style from the 1940s, the film was released to negative reviews and was a commercial failure. That same year, Blanchett appeared in the critically acclaimed film, Babel opposite Brad Pitt and directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu. Blanchett also appeared in another successful film as Sheba Hart in, Notes on a Scandal (2006) opposite Dame Judi Dench who had worked with her previously in The Shipping News. Both Dench and Blanchett earned critical praise for their performances earning numerous award nominations. Rolling Stone writes, "If you want to see explosive acting, just watch Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett ignite in this film version of Zoe Heller's 2003 novel". For this role Blanchett received a fifth Golden Globe, ninth Screen Actors Guild and third Academy Award nominations.

In 2007, Blanchett was named as one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People in the World. That year she also appeared in two films which further earned her positive reviews, the first was her reprisal as Queen Elizabeth in the sequel, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, which chronicled events during the latter part of the Queen's reign. Like the previous film Blanchett's performance was praised by critics though the film itself was released to mixed reviews. A critic writes, "Every time the camera finally settles on Blanchett's regal cheekbones, it's a relief". Her second role that year playing musician Bob Dylan earned Blanchett rave reviews, the independent Todd Haynes' film, I'm Not There was one of six incarnations of different eras in Dylan's life. Blanchett's portrayal of Dylan in 1965-1966, was considered the standout performance of the film which also featured actors, Christian Bale, Richard Gere and Heath Ledger. The New York Daily News writes, "with her hair curled and her bosom flattened against her tiny frame, she looks and sounds more like Dylan than any of the others". Newsweek magazine described her performance as "so convincing and intense that you shrink back in your seat when she fixes you with her gaze." The Charlotte Observer called Blanchett "miraculously close to the 1966 Dylan." For her performance Blanchett won the Volpi Cup Best Actress Award at the Venice Film Festival, Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Actress and won her second Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress.

At the 80th Academy Awards, Blanchett received two Academy Award nominations; Best Actress for Elizabeth: the Golden Age and Best Supporting Actress for I'm Not There, becoming the eleventh actor to receive two acting nominations in the same year and the first female actor to receive another nomination for the reprisal of a role. She lost both awards to Marion Cotillard in La Vie en rose and Tilda Swinton in Michael Clayton respectively. Additionally, Blanchett earned two BAFTA, two Screen Actors Guild and overall seventh Golden Globe nomination.

Blanchett and her husband started three-year contracts as artistic co-directors of the Sydney Theatre Company in January 2008. Blanchett and her husband will remain artistic directors of the theatre until 2013, chair Ian Darling says, "In their first two years they've transformed the company and the way many people feel about it". In 2008 Blanchett appeared in two commercially successful films, the first was Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull as the villainous KGB agent Col. Dr. Irina Spalko. The film grossed $786,636,033 worldwide. Blachett revealed she had been wanting to play a villain for years before being approached by Spielberg. On Blanchett's performance, Spielberg says, "Of all the villains I've been able to work with in the Indiana Jones movies, I can say she's my favorite. And I think Cate made her that way". Her other film was David Fincher's fantasy-drama film, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button alongside her Babel co-star Brad Pitt, Taraji P. Henson and Tilda Swinton. Grossing over $300,000,000 worldwide, the film was also released to critical acclaim. Blanchett was honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2008 at 6712 Hollywood Boulevard in front of Grauman's Egyptian Theatre.

2009-present

To date 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), and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) with Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King being the sole Best Picture winner. She was named one of the most successful actresses in Hollywood by Forbes magazine in 2009. Blanchett provided her voice in the English version of the Japanese animated fantasy film, Ponyo (2009). The following year she appeared in Ridley Scott's Robin Hood (2010) as Lady Marian opposite Russell Crowe as the film's title character. The film premiered at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival and was a substantial success worldwide.

Recently, Blanchett appeared in the action thriller, Hanna (2011) with Saoirse Ronan and Eric Bana. It was announced that Blanchett will reprise her role as Galadriel in Jackson's upcoming films of The Hobbit in 2012 and 2013, set in New Zealand.

Personal life

Blanchett at the Berlin International Film Festival, 2005

Blanchett's 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." 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 decide on a permanent home for her children, and to be closer to her family as well as a sense of belonging to the Australian (theatrical) community. She and her family live in "Bulwarra", an 1877 sandstone mansion in the harbourside Sydney suburb of Hunters Hill. It was purchased for $10.2 million Australian dollars in 2004 and underwent extensive renovations in 2007 in order to be made more "eco-friendly".

In 2006, a portrait of Cate Blanchett and family painted by McLean Edwards was a finalist in the Archibald Prize, which is awarded the "best portrait painting preferentially of some man or woman distinguished in Art, Letters, Science or Politics".

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 www.whoonearthcares.com – 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, 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 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 from Elizabeth: The Golden Age.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1994	Police Rescue: The Movie	Vivian
1996	Parklands	Rosie
1997	Oscar and Lucinda	Lucinda Leplastrier	Nominated—Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role Nominated—Film Critics Circle of Australia Award for Best Actor – Female
1997	Thank God He Met Lizzie	Lizzie	Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role Film Critics Circle of Australia Award for Best Supporting Actor – Female
1997	Paradise Road	Susan Macarthy
1998	Elizabeth	Queen Elizabeth I	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 Actress – 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
1999	Bangers	Julie-Anne
1999	The Talented Mr. Ripley	Meredith Logue	Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role Nominated—Chlotrudis Award for Best Supporting Actress (also for An Ideal Husband)
1999	Pushing Tin	Connie Falzone
1999	An Ideal Husband	Lady Gertrude Chiltern	Nominated—Chlotrudis Award for Best Supporting Actress (also for The Talented Mr. Ripley) Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture
2000	The Gift	Annabelle "Annie" Wilson	Nominated—Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Actress
2000	The Man Who Cried	Lola	Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress (also for Bandits, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and The Shipping News) National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress (also for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and The Shipping News) Nominated—Chlotrudis Award for Best Supporting Actress
2001	The Shipping News	Petal Quoyle	Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress (also for Bandits, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and The Man Who Cried) National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress (also for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and The Man Who Cried)
2001	Charlotte Gray	Charlotte Gray	Nominated—Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
2001	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	Galadriel	Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress (also for Bandits, The Shipping News and The Man Who Cried) National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress (also for The Shipping News' and The Man Who Cried) Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
2001	Bandits	Kate Wheeler	Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress (also for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Shipping News and The Man Who Cried) Nominated—American Film Institute Award for Best Actress Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
2002	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	Galadriel	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
2002	Heaven	Philippa
2003	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	Galadriel	Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast National Board of Review Award for Best Cast Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Nominated—Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast
2003	The Missing	Magdalena 'Maggie' Gilkeson	Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Actress
2003	Coffee and Cigarettes	Herself & Shelly	Central Ohio Film Critics Association Award for Actor of the Year (also for The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and The Aviator) Nominated—Chlotrudis Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated—Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female Nominated—Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress (also for The Aviator)
2003	Veronica Guerin	Veronica Guerin	Nominated—Empire Award for Best Actress Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama Nominated—Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress
2004	The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou	Jane Winslett-Richardson	Central Ohio Film Critics Association Award for Actor of the Year (also for Coffee and Cigarettes and The Aviator) Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress (also for The Aviator) Nominated—Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast
2004	The Aviator	Katharine Hepburn	Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role Central Ohio Film Critics Association Award for Actor of the Year (also for Coffee and Cigarettes and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou) Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress (also for The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou) Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated—Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated—Empire Award for Best Actress Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Nominated—Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress (also for Coffee and Cigarettes)
2005	Little Fish	Tracy Heart	Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role Film Critics Circle of Australia Award for Best Actress in a Lead Role
2006	Babel	Susan Jones	Palm Springs International Film Festival Award for Best Cast Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
2006	The Good German	Lena Brandt
2006	Notes on a Scandal	Sheba Hart	Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated—Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated—British Independent Film Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated—Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated—Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Nominated—Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
2007	Hot Fuzz	Janine	Uncredited Cameo
2007	Elizabeth: The Golden Age	Queen Elizabeth I	Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actress Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role Nominated—Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Nominated—Empire Award for Best Actress Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
2007	I'm Not There	Jude Quinn (Bob Dylan)	Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress Central Ohio Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress Volpi Cup Chlotrudis Award for Best Supporting Actress Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated—Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role Nominated—Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated—Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
2008	Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull	Colonel-Doctor Irina Spalko
2008	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button	Daisy Fuller	Nominated—Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Nominated—Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Actress Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
2009	Ponyo	Granmamare	voice – English version
2010	Robin Hood	Lady Marian
2011	Hanna	Marissa Wiegler	post-production
2012	The Hobbit: Part 1	Galadriel	in development
2013	The Hobbit: Part 2	Galadriel	in development

Theatre credits

Year	Production	Location	Role	Notes
pre-1992	The Odyssey of Runyon Jones	Methodist Ladies' College, Melbourne	Unknown	Adaption of play by Norman Corwin
pre-1992	They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?	Methodist Ladies' College, Melbourne	Director	Directed fellow students in a production of an adaptation of the novel by Horace McCoy
1992	Electra	National Institute of Dramatic Art, Sydney	Electra	Lead
1992/1993	Top Girls	Sydney Theatre Company	Unknown	This play by Caryl Churchill was her first starring role there
1993	Oleanna	Sydney Theatre Company	Carol	Lead opposite Geoffrey Rush in David Mamet's play about a university professor who is accused of sexual harassment by a student. Won Rosemont Best Actress Award.
1994	Hamlet	Belvoir Street Theatre Company	Ophelia	Played opposite Geoffrey Rush. It was a Company B Production, directed by Neil Armfield.
1995	Sweet Phoebe	Sydney Theatre Company and Warehouse Theatre, Croydon	Helen	Played lead in the Belvoir Street Theatre/Playbox Theatre co-production, written and directed by Michael Gow. The Sydney production was the first ever, then transferred to the West End
1995	The Tempest	Belvoir Street Theatre Company	Miranda	A Company B Production, directed by Neil Armfield. Played alongside Duxton Chevalier.
1995	The Blind Giant is Dancing	Belvoir Street Theatre Company	Rose Draper	Played alongside Hugo Weaving. A Stephen Sewell play. It opened on 15 August 1995, and closed on 10 September 1995. It was a Company B production, directed by Neil Armfield, with music composed by Paul Charlier.
1997	The Seagull a.k.a. The Seagull in Harry Hills	Belvoir Street Theatre Company	Nina	Lead in the Anton Checkov play. It opened on 4 March 1997, and closed on 13 April. It was a Company B Production, directed by Neil Armfield, music composed by Paul Charlier.
1999	Plenty	The Alemida Season at the Albery Theatre, London	Susan Traherne	Lead in play by David Hare, directed by Jonathan Kent. It opened on 27 April 1999, and closed on 27 July.
1999	The Vagina Monologues	Old Vic Theatre, London	Unknown	Ensemble; Took part in the show in February 1999, alongside other actors including Melanie Griffith.
2004	Hedda Gabler	Sydney Theatre Company	Hedda Gabler	Opened on 22 July 2004, and closed on 26 September 2004. She reprised her performance as Hedda in New York in March 2006, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Harvey Theatre.
2009	The War of the Roses Cycle	Sydney Theatre Company	Richard II, Lady Anne	Previewed from 5 January 2009; performed in two parts as part of the Sydney Festival 2009, 10–31 January; through 14 February 2009.
2009	A Streetcar Named Desire	Sydney Theatre Company	Blanche DuBois	The play was directed by actress Liv Ullmann and co-starred Joel Edgerton. 2009 Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Non-Resident Production, Washington, DC
2010	Uncle Vanya	Sydney Theatre Company	Yelena	Adaptation by A. Upton; with Richard Roxburgh (Vanya), John Bell (Professor Serebryakov), Hugo Weaving (Astrov)

External links

• Cate Blanchett at IMDb
• Sydney Theatre Company – The Sydney Theatre Company
• Cate Blanchett – Australian Film Commission
• Cate Blanchett: A Life in Pictures, BAFTA webcast
• Blanchett, Cate (1969-) National Library of Australia, Trove, People and Organisation record for Cate Blanchett