![]() ![]() A couple of weeks after rehearsals, the actress playing the title role pulled out, and director Lindy Davies cast Blanchett in the role. That year, she was also cast as Clytemnestra in a production of Sophocles' Electra. Career 1992–2000: Early work and international breakthrough īlanchett's first stage role was opposite Geoffrey Rush, in the 1992 David Mamet play Oleanna for the Sydney Theatre Company. On returning to Australia, she moved to Sydney and enrolled at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), graduating in 1992 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. While in Egypt, Blanchett was asked to be an extra as an American cheerleader in the Egyptian boxing film Kaboria (1990) in need of money, she accepted the job. She studied economics and fine arts at the University of Melbourne but dropped out after one year to travel overseas. In her late teens and early twenties, she worked at a nursing home in Victoria. ![]() She attended primary school in Melbourne at Ivanhoe East Primary School for her secondary education, she attended Ivanhoe Girls' Grammar School and then Methodist Ladies' College, where she explored her passion for the performing arts. During her teenage years she had a penchant for dressing in traditionally masculine clothing, and went through goth and punk phases, at one point shaving her head. īlanchett has described herself as a "part extrovert, part wallflower" child. Her ancestry includes English, some Scottish, and remote French roots. Blanchett is the second of three children, with an older brother and younger sister. ![]() When Blanchett was ten, her father died of a heart attack, leaving her mother to raise the family. They met when Robert's ship broke down in Melbourne. Her Australian mother, June (née Gamble), was a property developer and teacher and her American father, Robert DeWitt Blanchett Jr., a Texas native, was a United States Navy Chief Petty Officer who became an advertising executive. The National Institute of Dramatic Art in Kensington, New South Wales, where Blanchett studiedĬatherine Elise Blanchett was born on in the Ivanhoe suburb of Melbourne. In 2018, she was ranked among the world's highest-paid actresses. Time named her one of its 100 most influential people in the world in 2007. Blanchett has received honorary Doctor of Letters degrees from the University of New South Wales, University of Sydney and Macquarie University. In 2015, she was honoured by the Museum of Modern Art and received the British Film Institute Fellowship. In 2012, she was appointed Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government. The Australian government awarded her the Centenary Medal in 2001, and she was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia in 2017. America (2020).īlanchett is the recipient of several honorary awards. She has also received two Emmy Award nominations for producing and starring as Phyllis Schlafly in the period drama miniseries Mrs. She made her Broadway debut in 2017 in The Present, for which she received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. ![]() Some of her stage roles during this period were in acclaimed revivals of A Streetcar Named Desire, Uncle Vanya, Groß und klein and The Maids. She and her husband, Andrew Upton, were the artistic directors of the Sydney Theatre Company from 2008 to 2013. Her biggest commercial successes include The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001–2003), Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), Cinderella (2015), Thor: Ragnarok (2017), Ocean's 8 (2018), and Don't Look Up (2021).īlanchett has performed in over twenty stage productions. Blanchett's other Oscar-nominated roles are in Notes on a Scandal (2006), I'm Not There (2007), Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007), Carol (2015), and Tár (2022), making her the most-nominated Australian. She later won the Academy Award for Best Actress for playing a neurotic former socialite in the comedy-drama Blue Jasmine (2013). Her portrayal of Katharine Hepburn in the biopic The Aviator (2004) won her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Making her film debut in 1997, she came to international prominence for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth I in biographical period drama Elizabeth (1998), for which she won the Golden Globe and BAFTA Award for Best Actress and received her first Academy Award nomination. She has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, four British Academy Film Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards, in addition to nominations for a Tony Award and two Primetime Emmy Awards.Ī graduate of the National Institute of Dramatic Art, Blanchett began her career on the Australian stage. Regarded as one of the best performers of her generation, she is known for her versatile work across independent films, blockbusters, and stage. Catherine Elise Blanchett AC ( / ˈ b l æ n tʃ ɪ t/ BLAN-chit born ) is an Australian actor. ![]()
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