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Cate Blanchett (born May 14, 1969) is an
Australian actress. She was born Catherine Elise
Blanchett in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, the
daughter of a Texas|Texan United States Navy|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 10 years old. She has two siblings; the
elder, Bob, is a computer programmer, and her
younger sister, Genevieve Blanchett|Genevieve, is
a theatrical designer. 

Blanchett graduated from the National Institute of
Dramatic Art 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 prisoner of
war production of Paradise Road directed by Bruce
Beresford, that co-starred Glenn Close and Frances
McDormand.

She married playwright and screenwriter Andrew
Upton, whom 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,"
Blanchett later remarked. "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; their second child, Roman Robert, was born
in 2004. The younger son received a minor burn
(injury)|burn injury on May 15, 2005 while the
family was in Marrakech, Morocco, for the filming
of the movie Babel_(2005_movie)|Babel. After
treatment there, Blanchett flew with him to London
for further treatment.
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Blanchett is perhaps best known for her role as
Elizabeth I, Queen of England in the 1998 movie
Elizabeth (movie)|Elizabeth. This role earned her
an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress,
which she was widely considered to be likely to
win (however the award instead went to Gwyneth
Paltrow for Shakespeare in Love). Blanchett later
won an Academy Award|Oscar for Best Supporting
Actress in 2005 for playing Katharine Hepburn in
Martin Scorcese|Martin Scorcese's The Aviator. 

Already an acclaimed actress, Blanchett received a
host of new fans when she appeared in Peter
Jackson|Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings
movies. She played the role of the elf Galadriel
in all three films.



== Filmography==
2006
*Golden Age (movie)|Golden Age – Elizabeth I

*Little Fish – Tracy Heart 

2004
*The Life Aquatic – Jane Winslett-Richardson

*The Aviator – Katharine Hepburn

2003
* The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
(film)|The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the
King – Galadriel
* The Missing – Maggie 
* Coffee and Cigarettes 
* Veronica Guerin (movie)|Veronica Guerin –
Veronica Guerin

2002
* The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (film)|The
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers –
Galadriel
* Heaven (movie)|Heaven – Philippa

2001
* The Shipping News – Petal Bear
* Charlotte Gray – Charlotte Gray
* The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the
Ring (film)|The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship
of the Ring – Galadriel
* Bandits – Kate Wheeler 

2000
* The Gift (movie)|The Gift – Annabelle
'Annie' Wilson
* The Man Who Cried – Lola

1999
* Bangers – Julie-Anne 
* The Talented Mr. Ripley – Meredith Logue
* Pushing Tin – Connie Falzone
* An Ideal Husband (film)|An Ideal Husband –
Lady Gertrude Chiltern

1998
* Elizabeth (movie)|Elizabeth – Elizabeth I
of England

1997
* Oscar and Lucinda – Lucinda Leplastrier
* Thank God He Met Lizzie – Lizzie
* Paradise Road – Susan Macarthy

1996
* Parklands – Rosie 

1994
* Police Rescue – Vivian

== Awards & Nominations ==
* Academy Award for Best Actress|Academy Award -
Nominated for Best Actress for Elizabeth
(movie)|Elizabeth (1998)
* Academy Award for Best Supporting
Actress|Academy Award - Best Supporting Actress
for The Aviator (2004)
* BAFTA|British Academy of Film and Television
Arts - Best Actress for Elizabeth (1998)
* British Academy of Film and Television Arts -
Best Supporting Actress for The Aviator (2004)
*
List_of_Golden_Globe_Awards:_Film%2C_Best_Actress%
2C_Drama|Golden Globe Awards - Best Actress,
Drama, for Elizabeth (1998)
* Golden Globe Awards - Nominated for Best
Actress, Musical or Comedy, for Bandits (2001)
*
List_of_Golden_Globe_Awards:_Film%2C_Best_Actress%
2C_Drama|Golden Globe Awards - Nominated for Best
Actress, Drama, for Veronica Guerin (2003)
* Golden Globe Awards - Nominated for Best
Supporting Actress for The Aviator (2004)
* Screen Actors Guild Awards - Best Ensemble Cast
for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
(2003)
* Screen_Actors_Guild#SAG_Awards|Screen Actors
Guild Awards - Best Supporting Actress for The
Aviator (2004)

==Quotes==

*"If you know you are going to fail, then fail
gloriously"
*On the Lord of the Rings trilogy: "I had never
done anything with blue screen before, or
prosthetics, or anything like that. Lord of the
Rings was like stepping into a videogame for me.
It was another world completely. But, to be
honest, I basically did it so that I could have
the ears. I thought they would really work with my
bare head."
*"If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I
could be on the brink my entire life - that great
sense of expectation and excitement without the
disappointment - that would be the perfect state."

==External links==
*http://www.cateblanchett.net/ An unofficial fan
site
*imdb name|id=0000949|name=Cate Blanchett
*http://www.dmoz.org/Arts/Performing_Arts/Acting/A
ctors_and_Actresses/B/Blanchett,_Cate/ Cate
Blanchett Directory
*http://www.clivejames.com/library/section/media/?
&LID=4&SID=5&VRN=8&pipe=1 Cate Blanchett Talking
in the Library with Clive James
*http://www.celebsoup.com/Cate_Blanchett.html Cate
Blanchett fansite