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Cate Blanchett (born May 14, 1969) is an Australian actress. She was born as Catherine Elise Blanchett in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia as the daughter of a Texan navy officer who came ashore in Melbourne and never left and a Melbourne schoolteacher. Her father, Robert, had moved on to advertising when he met her mother, June. He died of a heart attack when Cate was only 10 years old. She has two brothers, the oldest, Bob, is a computer programmer, and her younger sister, Genevieve, is a set designer in the theatre. Blanchett graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Arts in Sydney in 1992, and began her career on the stage. 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 POW production directed by Bruce Beresford, Paradise Road , that co-starred Glenn Close and Frances McDormand.
She married playwright and screenwriter Andrew Upton , who she met back in 1996 while she was performing in a production of The Seagull. It was hardly love at first sight, however. "He thought I was aloof and I thought he was arrogant," said Cate Blanchett. "It just shows you how wrong you can be. But once he kissed me that was that." The two were married in 1997 and welcomed their first child, Dashiell John, in December 2001 and their second child Roman was born in 2004.
1 Filmography
2006
- Golden Age – Elizabeth I
- Little Fish – Tracy Heart
2004
- The Life Aquatic – Jane Winslett-Richardson
- The Aviator – Katharine Hepburn
2003
- – Galadriel
- The Missing – Maggie
- Coffee and CigarettesCoffee and Cigarettes is a 2003 black and white independent film directed by Jim Jarmusch. The main casts are Roberto Benigni, Steven Wright, Joie Lee, Cinque Lee and Steve Buscemi. The film consists of short stories in which all of them have coffee and c
- Veronica GuerinVeronica Guerin ( 1959- June 26, 1996) was an Irish journalist who was murdered in 1996 by Irish drug dealers. Veronica Guerin had studied accountancy and political research and had founded a public relations company before she joined the Sunday Business – Veronica Guerin
2002
- – Galadriel
- Heaven (movie)Heaven is a 2002 motion picture that tells the story of an English woman who makes a bomb attack and a young police officer who helps her to escape. The film stars Cate Blanchett, Giovanni Ribisi and more, and was directed by Tom Tykwer. The screenplay wa – Philippa
2001
- The Shipping NewsThe Shipping News is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel (BooksEnthsiast.com) by E. Annie Proulx which was published in 1993, and a film of the same name, released in 2001, set on the Canadian island of Newfoundland. The film was directed by Lasse Hallstrom and s – Petal Bear
- Charlotte Gray – Charlotte Gray
- – Galadriel
- Bandits – Kate Wheeler
2000
- The Gift – Annabelle 'Annie' Wilson
- The Man Who Cried – Lola
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