Cate Blanchett Biography, Age, Husband, Children, Movies, Wiki, & Net Worth

Cate Blanchett is an Academy Award-winning Australian actress and theatre director best identified for performing as Elizabeth I of England in the flick ‘Elizabeth’ and as Katharine Hepburn in the movie ‘The Aviator’. Besides her work in films, Blanchett has also experienced a lengthy career in theatre and is a four-time Helpmann Award winner for the ‘Best Female Actor in a Play’. She first became involved in acting while in college but was distracted about attempting it professionally. She enrolled at the University of Melbourne to study economics but dropped out soon in order to pursue an acting career.

She then flew overseas and took acting classes before settling her first acting appearance. Within years, she established herself successfully not only in her native country but also on an international level. As of March 2018, she is the only actress to earn the Academy Award nominations for playing the same character in two movies (she played Elizabeth I in both ‘Elizabeth’ and ‘Elizabeth: The Golden Age’). Also, she is the only Australian artist to earn two Academy Awards for acting.

Cate Blanchett Wiki/Bio

Birth Name	Catherine Élise Blanchett
Nick Name	Cate
Age	(as in 2023) 54 years
Religion	Non-religious
Sun Sign/Zodiac Sign	Taurus
Birth Place	Melbourne, Australia
Date of Birth	14 May 1969
Nationality	American
Residence	Suburb of Hunters Hill, Sydney
Home Town	Melbourne
Hobbies	Not Known
Family
Mother’s Name	June (née Gamble) (Previously worked as a teacher and Australian property developer)
Father’s Name	Robert DeWitt Blanchett, Jr (Was United States Navy petty officer and after retiring worked as an advertising executive) (Died in 1979)
Brother	Bob Blanchett (Older Brother) (Computer Systems Engineer)
Sister	Genevieve Blanchett (Younger Sister) (Theatrical designer)
Boyfriends/Affairs
Affairs/Boyfriends	Andrew Upton
Marital Status, Husband and Children
Husband/Spouse	Andrew Upton
Marriage Date	29 December 1997
Children	Dashiell John (born – December 3, 2001) Roman Robert (born – April 23, 2004) Ignatius Martin (born – April 13, 2008)
Education
School	Ivanhoe East Primary School, Melbourne Ivanhoe Girls’ Grammar School
College/University	Methodist Ladies’ College, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia University of Melbourne
Educational Qualification	Graduated
Profession	Actress
Brands Endorsed	Procter & Gamble’s SK-II Ambassador for Australian Conservation Foundation
Career Manager	RGM Associates
Height, Weight, and Figure Measurements
Height (Approx.)	in centimeters- 174 cm in meters- 1.74 m in feet inches- 5’8½”
Weight (Approx.)	in kilograms- 59 kg in pounds- 130 lbs
Figure Measurements
Breast Size	34 Inches
Hips Size	35 Inches
Waist Size	24 Inches
Extra Ordinary Features
Race / Ethnicity	White
Hair Color	Blonde
Eye Color	Blue
S*xual Orientation	Straight
Dress Size	Not Known
Shoe Size	9 (US) or 39.5 (EU)
Favourite Things
Favourite Mascara	SK-II’s or Tom Ford’s mascara
Favourite Skin Care Products	Sensai (By Sisley), SK-II eye cream
Favourite Makeup Artist	Mary Greenwell
Favourite Novelist	Peter Carey
Favourite Actress	Mia Wasikowska
Controversies	None

Cate Blanchett was born on 14 May 1969 to June and Robert DeWitt Blanchett, Jr. in Victoria, Australia. Her mother worked as a teacher and property developer while her father served in the United States Navy and later became an advertising executive. She has a younger sister who is a theatrical designer and an older brother who is a computer systems engineer.

Her 40-year-old father died of a sudden heart attack when she was ten years old. Her mother never remarried, and her grandmother moved in to help her mother.

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Blanchett studied at Ivanhoe East Primary School and Ivanhoe Girls’ Grammar School before joining Methodist Ladies’ College. She then attended the University of Melbourne for a year before dropping out. In her late teens and early twenties, Blanchett also worked at a nursing home.

Later, she enrolled at the National Institute of Dramatic Art and graduated from there in 1992, receiving her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. On finishing graduation from NIDA, she reached the Sydney Theatre Company’s production of Caryl Churchill’s “Top Girls”, then portrayed Felice Bauer, the bride, in Tim Daly’s “Kafka Dances”, winning the 1993 Newcomer Award from the Sydney Theatre Critics Circle for her work.

Cate Blanchett Net Worth

Cate Blanchett is a highly regarded Australian actress who has a net worth of $95 million.

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. And her accolades don’t stop there.

Blanchett has continued to mix big-budget projects like The Curious Case of Benjamin Button with roles in theater productions such as the A Streetcar Named Desire. She earned her second Oscar for her portray in Blue Jasmine, which made her the first Australian actor to win more than one Academy Award.

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Cate Blanchett Movies, Stage Work And TV Shows

• Blanchett made her U.S. feature film debut in 1997’s Paradise Road, about a group of women imprisoned in Japan during WWII. Later that year she took Hollywood’s attention with her work opposite Ralph Fiennes in Oscar and Lucinda.
• In 1998, Blanchett‘s Golden Globe-winning portrait of England’s Queen Elizabeth I in Elizabeth brought in the actress her first Academy Award nomination. She was 29 years old.
• Blanchett turned in a superb supporting performance in 1999’s The Talented Mr. Ripley, a film also featuring Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Jude Law.
• Then in 2000, she played a psychic woman in a small Southern town in the thriller The Gift, starring alongside Katie Holmes and Greg Kinnear. The following year Blanchett co-starred with Bruce Willis and Billy Bob Thornton in the comic caper Bandits, and with Kevin Spacey and Julianne Moore in The Shipping News.
• Additionally, she headlined the World War II-era drama Charlotte Gray, playing a British woman who is drawn into the French resistance movement.
• In 2001, Blanchett appeared as the benevolent royal elf Galadriel in The Fellowship of the Ring, the first installment of The Lord of the Rings film franchise directed by Peter Jackson and based on the novel by J.R.R. Tolkien.
• Blanchett returned to the character for the second and third installments of the trilogy (reuniting with Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Orlando Bloom, and Liv Tyler, among other recurring Lord of the Rings cast members): The Two Towers, released in 2002, and The Return of the King, released in 2003.
• In 2005, Blanchett garnered her biggest cinematic accolade to date: She earned an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for portraying Katharine Hepburn in the Howard Hughes biopic The Aviator (2004), directed by Martin Scorsese.
• In 2006, she teamed up with Brad Pitt for the drama Babel, and the following year she returned to one of her most famous characters for Elizabeth: The Golden Age.
• In 2007, the actress took on another legendary portrayal: She was one of the actors to portray music legend Bob Dylan in the acclaimed biopic I’m Not There, directed by Todd Haynes.
• In 2008, Blanchett teamed up with Pitt once more, starring as the dancer Daisy alongside his title character in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, about a man who ages in reverse time. Directed by David Fincher, the movie’s screenplay was inspired by a story originally written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in the early 20th century.
• In 2012, Blanchett returned to the character Galadriel yet again, this time for a new Jackson-directed series, The Hobbit. The franchise is a trilogy based on another work from Tolkien published years before The Lord of the Rings that feature the same world.
• The series’ first film, An Unexpected Journey, was released in December 2012, and its second and third parts, The Desolation of Smaug and There and Back Again, hit theaters in 2013 and 2014, respectively. Blanchett was featured in each part.
• Blanchett won another Oscar in 2014, this time for Best Actress, for her enthralling performance as a delusional New York socialite in Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine (2013).
• After having co-starred in 2014’s WWII drama The Monuments Men and the animated feature How to Train Your Dragon 2, Blanchett once again inhabited an iconic role, this time as the wicked stepmother in Disney’s 2015 non-animated film adaptation of Cinderella, directed by Kenneth Branagh.
• Later that year she portrayed 60 Minutes producer Mary Mapes in James Vanderbilt’s Truth, co-starring Robert Redford as Dan Rather. The film explores the news program’s investigation into President George W. Bush’s military service and the resulting fallout after a questionable on-air report.
• Blanchett was also reunited with director Haynes in another drama for the 2015 season, Carol, in which she plays a suburban housewife who becomes romantically involved with a store saleswoman (Rooney Mara). The project was adapted from a 1952 novel by Patricia Highsmith, the same author who’d penned The Talented Mr. Ripley.
• In 2017, Blanchett returned to a more fantasy-based genre, playing Thor’s villainous older sister Hela in Thor: Ragnarok. In 2018, she starred in the all-female heist comedy Ocean’s 8, with Sandra Bullock, as well as in the fantasy film The House with a Clock in Its Walls, based on John Bellairs’ 1973 novel.
• The following year she played the title character of Richard Linklater’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette, drawing strong praise for her performance amid otherwise lukewarm reviews for the feature.
• Turning to the small screen in early 2020, Blanchett served as an executive producer and supporting player in the Australian drama Stateless, about some of the unfortunate characters caught in the complexities of the country’s border control system.
• Around that time she also assumed the role of staunch anti-feminist Phyllis Schlafly in the Hulu series Mrs. America.
• Among her upcoming projects, Blanchett is slated to play legendary comedian Lucille Ball in Lucy and Desi, an authorized biopic written by Aaron Sorkin and acquired by Amazon Studios.

Facts

1. During her childhood, she was kind of “part extrovert, part wallflower”.
2. Methodist Ladies’ College is the place, where she developed her passion for acting.
3. As of 2014, she earned six Oscar nominations, out of which four were to play real people. But, she was able to win only 1 Oscar award for the 2004 film The Aviator in which she played Katharine Hepburn.
4. On March 30, 2012, she was appointed as Chevalier the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government to recognize her contribution to the field of arts.
5. She has also done theater work and appeared in dozens of plays.
6. Initially, Cate was considered for the voice character of Mrs. Fox in the 2009 animated adventure comedy movie Fantastic Mr. Fox, but the later the role was offered to Meryl Streep.
7. She gave birth to her third child at the age of 38.
8. Blanchett was presented with the portray of Daisy Fuller in the 2008 film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button after English actress Rachel Weisz backed out as she had scheduling problems.
9. She is good friends with fellow actress Nicole Kidman.
10. She is not available on social media.

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