Cate Blanchett’s Birth Date:
May 14, 1969
Place of Birth:
Melbourne, Australia
Role That Got Her Noticed:
Playing Queen Elizabeth in the 1998 movie Elizabeth not only thrust her into the spotlight, but also earned Blanchett her first Oscar nomination. She reprised her role as Queen Elizabeth in the 2007 film Elizabeth: The Golden Age. For that performance she picked up her fifth Oscar nomination.
Net Worth:
Cate Blanchett didn’t plan to go into acting From an elf queen to a star-crossed lover, this Australian queen is one of Hollywood’s finest. According to Wealthy Genius Cate Blanchett has a net worth of $90 million dollars, as of 2020.
Personal Facts:
Cate Blanchett’s been married to writer/producer/director Andrew Upton since 1997. The couple has three children.
Oscar Trivia:
In 2008 Blanchett entered the Oscar record books as the fifth performer in history to be nominated in both acting categories in the same year. She earned a Best Actress nomination for her starring role in Elizabeth: The Golden Age and a Best Supporting Actress nomination for I’m Not There.
Stage Productions:
Blanchett, a graduate of Australia’s National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), has an extensive theater background. Over the years Blanchett’s worked with Company B (based in Sydney), the Sydney Theatre Company, and the Almeida Theatre. She moved into the director’s chair with A Kind of Alaska at the Sydney Theatre Company, followed by David Harrower’s Blackbird and Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking. Blanchett’s a member of the Australian Museum Board of Trustees, an ambassador for the Australian Conservation Foundation, SolarAid, the Australian Film Institute and the Sydney Film Festival.
Notable Movie Credits:
- Police Rescue (1994)
- Parklands (1996)
- Paradise Road (1997)
- Thank God He Met Lizzie (1997)
- Oscar and Lucinda (1997)
- Elizabeth (1998)
- An Ideal Husband (1999)
- Pushing Tin (1999)
- The Talented Mr Ripley (1999)
- The Man Who Cried (2000)
- The Gift (2000)
- Bandits (2001)
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
- Charlotte Gray (2001)
- The Shipping News (2001)
- Heaven (2002)
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
- Veronica Guerin (2003)
- Coffee and Cigarettes (2003)
- The Missing (2003)
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
- The Life Aquatic (2004)
- The Aviator (2004)
- Little Fish (2005)
- Babel (2006)
- The Good German (2006)
- Notes on a Scandal (2006)
- I’m Not There (2007)
- Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)
- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
- Robin Hood (2010)
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