Cate Blanchett

Quick Facts

Full Name	Cate Blanchett
Occupation	Movie Actress
Date Of Birth	May 14, 1969(1969-05-14)
Age	55
Birthplace	Melbourne
Country	Australia
Horoscope	Taurus

Cate Blanchett Biography

Cate Blanchett is one of the most popular and richest Movie Actress who was born on May 14, 1969 in Melbourne, Australia. She played an acclaimed role in Elizabeth in 1998 and appeared in Lord of the Rings as Galadriel. In 2014, she won the Oscar Award for Best Actress for her performance in Blue Jasmine. In 2017, she appeared as the character Hela in the blockbuster film Thor: Ragnarok.

She appeared with Orlando Bloom in Lord of the Rings.

Catherine Elise Blanchett AC (/ˈ b l æ n tʃ ə t / ; born 14 May 1969) is an Australian actress. One of Australia’s most accomplished actors, she is known for her roles in both blockbusters and independent films and has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and three British Academy Film Awards.

Blanchett’s first stage role was opposite Geoffrey Rush, in the 1992 David Mamet play Oleanna for the Sydney Theatre Company. That year, she was also cast as Clytemnestra in a production of Sophocles’ Electra. A couple of weeks after rehearsals, the actress playing the title role pulled out, and director Lindy Davies cast Blanchett in the role. Her performance as Electra became one of her most acclaimed at NIDA. In 1993, Blanchett was awarded the Sydney Theatre Critics’ Best Newcomer Award for her performance in Timothy Daly’s Kafka Dances and won Best Actress for her performance in Mamet’s Oleanna, making her the first actor to win both categories in the same year. Blanchett played the role of Ophelia in an acclaimed 1994–1995 Company B production of Hamlet directed by Neil Armfield, starring Rush and Richard Roxburgh, and was nominated for a Green Room Award. She appeared in the 1994 TV miniseries Heartland opposite Ernie Dingo, the miniseries Bordertown (1995) with Hugo Weaving, and in an episode of Police Rescue entitled “The Loaded Boy”. She also appeared in the 50-minute drama short Parklands (1996), which received an Australian Film Institute (AFI) nomination for Best Original Screenplay.

She married Andrew Upton in 1997, and the couple had three sons. In 2015, she adopted a daughter named Edith.

Cate Blanchett Net Worth

Cate Blanchett is one of the richest Movie Actress from Australia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Cate Blanchett 's net worth $95 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She studied Economics and Fine Arts at the University of Melbourne.

She played Katherine Hepburn in the film, The Aviator, and was one of multiple actors to portray an aspect of Bob Dylan‘s persona in the 2007 art film I’m Not There. Her portrayal of Sheba Hart in the 2006 film Notes on a Scandal earned her a Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Blanchett was born on 14 May 1969 in the Melbourne suburb of Ivanhoe. Her Australian mother, June Gamble, worked as a property developer and teacher, and her American father, Robert DeWitt Blanchett, Jr., a Texas native, was a United States Navy Chief Petty Officer who later worked as an advertising executive. The two met when Blanchett’s father’s ship broke down in Melbourne. When Blanchett was 10, her father died of a heart attack, leaving her mother to raise the family on her own. Blanchett is the middle of three children, she has an older brother Bob Blanchett (born 1968), and a younger sister Genevieve Blanchett (born 1971). Her ancestry includes English, some Scottish, and remote French roots.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Cate Blanchett Dating?

According to our records, Cate Blanchett married to Andrew Upton. As of December 1, 2023, Cate Blanchett’s is not dating anyone.

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Her first high-profile international role was as Elizabeth I of England in the critically acclaimed film Elizabeth (1998), directed by Shekhar Kapur. The film catapulted her to stardom, and her performance garnered wide recognition, earning her the Golden Globe Award and British Academy Award (BAFTA), and her first Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. The following year, Blanchett appeared in Bangers (1999), an Australian short film part of Stories of Lost Souls, a compilation of thematically-related short stories. The short was written and directed by her husband, Andrew Upton, and produced by Blanchett and Upton. She also appeared in the Mike Newell comedy Pushing Tin (1999), costarring Billy Bob Thornton and Angelina Jolie (critics singled out Blanchett’s performance), and the critically acclaimed Anthony Minghella film The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), alongside Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, and Philip Seymour Hoffman. She received her second BAFTA nomination for her performance in The Talented Mr. Ripley.

Facts & Trivia

Cate Ranked on the list of most popular Movie Actress. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Australia. Cate Blanchett celebrates birthday on May 14 of every year.

Already an acclaimed actress, Blanchett received a host of new fans when she starred in Peter Jackson’s Academy Award-winning blockbuster trilogy, The Lord of the Rings, playing the role of Galadriel in all three films. In addition to The Lord of the Rings, 2001 also saw Blanchett diversify her portfolio with a range of roles in the dramas Charlotte Gray and The Shipping News and the American crime-comedy Bandits, for which she earned a second Golden Globe and SAG Award nomination.

Why does Cate Blanchett look different?

Cate Blanchett has admitted she wore her own fake teeth and wig in Netflix’s Don’t Look Up because coronavirus restrictions prevented her from having a make-up artist.

How many languages does Cate Blanchett speak?

English

Does Cate Blanchett have a tattoo?

Bad-ass babe Cate Blanchett totally had us for a moment when she rocked up to a red carpet event with her chest and arms full of tattoos.

Is Cate Blanchett rich?

Cate Blanchett is a highly regarded Australian actress who has a net worth of $95 million. She is well known for her diverse roles across both independent and mainstream films. Between August 2017 and August 2018, Cate earned $13 million which was enough to make her one of the 10 highest paid actresses in the world.

Does Cate Blanchett wear wigs?

When Cate Blanchett takes on a role, she takes on that character’s hair as well. “ I don’t like wearing wigs. Unless it’s for theatrical effect, I prefer to use my own hair,” says the Australian actress.