Cate Blanchett
Acting
- Born:
- 1969-05-14
- Place of birth:
- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Biography
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).
Known For
Filmography
How to Train Your Dragon 2
Each Day in a Moment: 2026
Maverick: The Epic Adventures of David Lean
National Theatre Live: Electra/Persona
Alpha Gang
The Wrong Girls
David Attenborough's 100 Years on Planet Earth
Father Mother Sister Brother
Mr. Scorsese
Black Bag
Bozo Over Roses
VOGUE: Inventing the Runway
Disclaimer
Borderlands
Rumours
Can Creativity Save the World?
Our Living World
Evolver
Faut Voir - L'Hebdo cinéma
The New Boy
Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled
The Fundraiser
Taskmaster Australia
Harrison Ford: Hollywood Hero
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: Handcarved Cinema
Euphoria
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
The School for Good and Evil
TÁR
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
Ukraine: Life Under Russia's Attack
Ukraine: Life Under Attack: Dispatches
Don't Look Up
Nightmare Alley
Squid Game
What If...?
Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age
Marvel Studios Legends
The Four Temperaments
Symphony Of The Invisible
Ride It Out
Homemade
Staged
Mrs. America
Stateless
Stuart X
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Sweet Tooth
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
This Changes Everything
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle
The House with a Clock in Its Walls
Reimagining The Met Gala
Ocean's Team 3.0
Jill Bilcock: Dancing the Invisible
Ocean's Eight
Thor: Ragnarok
Spielberg
Manifesto
Song to Song
Jill Bilcock: The Art of Film Editing
Voyage of Time: Life's Journey
Red
Earthflight 3D
Refugee
Carol
Truth
Knight of Cups
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Documentary Now!
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Hot Ones
Cinderella
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
How to Train Your Dragon 2
The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The Monuments Men
A Smarter Country
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Journey to the South Pacific
Making a Scene | 11 Performances
The Turning
Blue Jasmine
Girl Rising
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
A Cautionary Tail
Hanna
Rise and Rise Again: Making Ridley Scott's Robin Hood
Robin Hood
The Real Robin Hood
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
The Curious Birth of Benjamin Button
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Production Diary: Making of 'The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull'
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
I'm Not There
Common Ground: Under Construction Notes
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
In the Company of Actors
The Graham Norton Show
Hot Fuzz
Notes on a Scandal
The Good German
Babel
The Making of 'The Two Towers'
The Making of 'The Return of the King'
The Reichen Show
Little Fish
This Is an Adventure
Matthew Gray Gubler's Life Aquatic Intern Journal
On the Set: 'The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou'
The Aviator
A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Stories of Lost Souls
Coffee and Cigarettes
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
The Missing
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Veronica Guerin
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
The Fellowship of the Ring: The Fellowship of the Cast
Heaven
Live from E!
Charlotte Gray
Beyond the Movie: The Fellowship of the Ring
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
The Shipping News
Passage to Middle-Earth: The Making of 'The Lord of the Rings'
Quest for the Ring
Bandits
Good Day Live
The Gift
The Man Who Cried
Inside 'The Talented Mr. Ripley'
Reflections on 'the Talented Mr. Ripley'
The Talented Mr. Ripley
The Early Show
Bangers
Eyes Wide Shut
Pushing Tin
Family Guy
An Ideal Husband
Elizabeth
Parkinson
Oscar and Lucinda
Thank God He Met Lizzie
Elle Style Awards
The View
Leute heute
Paradise Road
Parklands
Bordertown
Inside the Actors Studio
Heartland
Police Rescue: The Movie
GMTV
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Police Rescue
Kaborya
The Simpsons
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Goldene Kamera
Wetten, dass..?
AACTA Awards
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
The Oscars
Today
The Emmy Awards
Golden Globe Awards
A Manual for Cleaning Women
The Champions
Sweetsick
Monica
Good Thing
The Origin of the World