AKA Catherine Elise Blanchett

Born: 14-May-1969
Birthplace: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor

Nationality: Australia
Executive summary: Galadriel in LOTR

Blanchett studied drama at Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Art. She performed on stage for several years with the Sydney Theatre Company, including a 1993 production of David Mamet's Oleanna opposite Geoffrey Rush. She had a supporting role in Police Rescue, a 1994 big screen outing for a long-running Australian TV series about heroic coppers. After two Australian miniseries, she worked on stage with Rush again, in a production of Hamlet. She won positive reviews for the down under dark romantic comedy Thank God He Met Lizzie. Her next film, Oscar and Lucinda with Ralph Fiennes, was well-received in American art houses, as was her performance as the Queen in Elizabeth. She later played the Queen of the elves in the Lord of the Rings movies, Katharine Hepburn in The Aviator, and herself and her cousin in Jim Jarmusch's Coffee & Cigarettes.

While filming a Ron Howard film called The Missing, Blanchett says she "forged an intimate connection to the land." She has since donated to Forest Guardians, a group that supports creation of wild animal preserves.

She is a distant descendant of Louis Bleriot, the first aviator to cross the English Channel.

Father: (advertising executive, d. heart attack when she was 10)
Mother: June Blanchett (teacher)
Brother: Robert Blanchett, Jr. (older, computer programmer)
Sister: Genevieve (younger, set designer, Queensland Theatre Company)
Husband: Andrew Upton (playwright, m. 29-Dec-1997, three sons)
Son: Dashiell John Upton (b. 3-Dec-2001)
Son: Roman Robert Upton (b. 23-Apr-2004)
Son: Ignatius Martin Upton (b. 13-Apr-2008)

    High School: Methodist Ladies College, Melbourne, Australia
    University: Melbourne University (dropped out)
    University: National Institute of Dramatic Art, Australia (1992)

    Golden Globe 1999 for Elizabeth
    Oscar for Best Supporting Actress 2005 for The Aviator
    Risk Factors: Smoking

    FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
    Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (18-May-2008)
    Elizabeth: The Golden Age (9-Sep-2007)
    I'm Not There (3-Sep-2007)
    Notes on a Scandal (25-Dec-2006)
    The Good German (12-Nov-2006)
    Babel (23-May-2006)
    Little Fish (20-Jul-2005)
    The Aviator (17-Dec-2004)
    The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
    The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (1-Dec-2003)
    The Missing (26-Nov-2003)
    Coffee and Cigarettes (7-Sep-2003)
    Veronica Guerin (08-Jul-2003)
    The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (5-Dec-2002)
    Heaven (6-Feb-2002)
    The Shipping News (18-Dec-2001)
    Charlotte Gray (17-Dec-2001)
    The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (10-Dec-2001)
    Bandits (12-Oct-2001)
    The Gift (20-Dec-2000)
    The Man Who Cried (2-Sep-2000)
    The Talented Mr. Ripley (12-Dec-1999)
    Pushing Tin (23-Apr-1999)
    An Ideal Husband (16-Apr-1999)
    Elizabeth (13-Sep-1998)
    Oscar and Lucinda (31-Dec-1997)
    Thank God He Met Lizzie (20-Nov-1997)
    Paradise Road (11-Apr-1997)

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