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Catherine Elise Blanchett |
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Female |
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5' 8.5" |
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AU - Australia |
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May 14, 1969 |
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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
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Attn: Robyn Gardiner |
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RGM Associates |
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Suite 202, 64-66 Kippax St |
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Surry Hills NSW |
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c/o William Morris Agency |
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151 El Camino Drive |
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Beverly Hills, CA 90212 |
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See also:
Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen
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Catherine Elise Blanchett (born May 14, 1969) is an Australian actress. She was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, the daughter of a Texan naval petty officer 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 only 10 years old. She has two siblings; the elder, Bob, is a computer programmer, and her younger sister, Genevieve, is a set designer in the theatre.
Cate graduated from Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1992 and in a little over a year had won both critical and popular acclaim. On graduating from NIDA, she joined the Sydney Theatre Company's production of Caryl Churchill's Top Girls, then played Felice Bauer, the bride, in Timothy Daly’s Kafka Dances, winning the 1993 Newcomer Award from the Sydney Theatre Critics Circle for her performance.
Her first major stage role was opposite Geoffrey Rush in the 1993 David Mamet play Oleanna. 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.
She then co-starred in the ABC Television's prime time drama "Heartland" (1994), again winning critical acclaim. In 1995, she was nominated for Best Female Performance for her role as Ophelia in the Belvoir Street Theatre Company's production of Hamlet. Other theatre credits include Helen in the Sydney Theatre Company's Sweet Phoebe, Miranda in The Tempest and Rose in The Blind Giant is Dancing, both for the Belvoir Street Theatre Company.
In other television roles, Blanchett starred as Bianca in ABC's Bordertown (1995), as Janie Morris in G.P. (1994)and in ABC's popular series Police Rescue (1994).
She made her feature film debut in Paradise Road (1997), and, in 1998, she played the title character in Elizabeth (1998), winning numerous awards for her performance, including the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Drama. Cate was also nominated for an Academy Award for the role but lost out to Gwyneth Paltrow.
2001 was a particularly busy year, with starring roles in Bandits (2001), The Shipping News (2001), Charlotte Gray (2001) and playing Elf Queen Galadriel in the Lord Of The Rings trilogy.
She married playwright and screenwriter Andrew Upton, who she met back in 1996 while she was performing in a production of The Seagull. They were married in 1997 and welcomed their first child, Dashiell John, in December 2001 and their second child Roman Robert was born in 2004.
Blanchett later won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 2005 for playing Katharine Hepburn in Martin Scorcese's The Aviator.
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