Cate Blanchett
Catherine Elise Blanchett (born May 14, 1969) is an Australian actor and producer. Regarded as one of the best actresses of her generation, she is known for her versatile work across independent films, blockbusters, and the stage. Blanchett is the recipient of numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, three British Academy Film Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards. After graduating from the National Institute of Dramatic Art, Blanchett began her acting career on the Australian stage, taking on roles in Electra in 1992 and Hamlet in 1994. She came to international attention as Elizabeth I in the drama film Elizabeth (1998), for which she won the Golden Globe and BAFTA Award for Best Actress, and received her first of seven Academy Award nominations. Her portrayal of Katharine Hepburn in Martin Scorsese's The Aviator (2004) won her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She later won the Academy Award for Best Actress for playing a neurotic former socialite in Woody Allen's comedy-drama Blue Jasmine (2013). Blanchett's other Oscar-nominated roles include Notes on a Scandal (2006), I'm Not There (2007), Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007), and Carol (2015). Her highest-grossing films include The Lord of the Rings (2001–2003) and The Hobbit (2012–2014) trilogies, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008), Cinderella (2015), Thor: Ragnarok (2017), and Ocean's 8 (2018). Blanchett has performed in over 20 theatre productions. From 2008 to 2013, she and her husband, Andrew Upton, were the artistic directors of the Sydney Theatre Company. Some of her stage roles during that period were in revivals of A Streetcar Named Desire, Uncle Vanya and The Maids, garnering several theatre awards and nominations. She made her Broadway debut in 2017 in The Present, for which she received a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play nomination. Blanchett has also received Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie and Outstanding Limited Series as producer for the FX/Hulu historical drama miniseries Mrs. America (2020).
Filmography (54)
The Wrong Girls
Father Mother Sister Brother
Black Bag
Borderlands
Fingernails
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
The School for Good and Evil
TÁR
Nightmare Alley
Don't Look Up
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
The House with a Clock in Its Walls
Ocean's Eight
Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle
Thor: Ragnarok
Song to Song
Cinderella
Carol
The Monuments Men
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
How to Train Your Dragon 2
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Blue Jasmine
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Hanna
Robin Hood
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Hot Fuzz
I'm Not There
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Babel
The Good German
Notes on a Scandal
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
The Aviator
Coffee and Cigarettes
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
The Missing
Veronica Guerin
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Heaven
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Bandits
The Shipping News
The Man Who Cried
The Gift
Eyes Wide Shut
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Pushing Tin
An Ideal Husband
Elizabeth
