Cate Blanchett
Biography
Catherine Elise Blanchett (born May 14, 1969) is an Australian actor and producer. Regarded as one of the best actresses of her generation, she is known for her versatile work across independent films, blockbusters, and the stage. Blanchett is the recipient of numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, three British Academy Film Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards.
After graduating from the National Institute of Dramatic Art, Blanchett began her acting career on the Australian stage, taking on roles in Electra in 1992 and Hamlet in 1994. She came to international attention as Elizabeth I in the drama film Elizabeth (1998), for which she won the Golden Globe and BAFTA Award for Best Actress, and received her first of seven Academy Award nominations. Her portrayal of Katharine Hepburn in Martin Scorsese's The Aviator (2004) won her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She later won the Academy Award for Best Actress for playing a neurotic former socialite in Woody Allen's comedy-drama Blue Jasmine (2013). Blanchett's other Oscar-nominated roles include Notes on a Scandal (2006), I'm Not There (2007), Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007), and Carol (2015). Her highest-grossing films include The Lord of the Rings (2001–2003) and The Hobbit (2012–2014) trilogies, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008), Cinderella (2015), Thor: Ragnarok (2017), and Ocean's 8 (2018).
Blanchett has performed in over 20 theatre productions. From 2008 to 2013, she and her husband, Andrew Upton, were the artistic directors of the Sydney Theatre Company. Some of her stage roles during that period were in revivals of A Streetcar Named Desire, Uncle Vanya and The Maids, garnering several theatre awards and nominations. She made her Broadway debut in 2017 in The Present, for which she received a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play nomination. Blanchett has also received Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie and Outstanding Limited Series as producer for the FX/Hulu historical drama miniseries Mrs. America (2020).
Acting (113 movies)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2003
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2001
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2002
The Good German
2006
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
2008
Coffee and Cigarettes
2004
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
2004
Babel
2006
The Talented Mr. Ripley
1999
Notes on a Scandal
2006
The Gift
2000
Heaven
2002
Bandits
2001
Veronica Guerin
2003
The Aviator
2004
I'm Not There
2007
The Fundraiser
2023
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
2007
Elizabeth
1998
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2008
Robin Hood
2010
The Shipping News
2001
An Ideal Husband
1999
The Missing
2003
Pushing Tin
1999
Charlotte Gray
2001
Little Fish
2005
The Man Who Cried
2000
Ukraine: Life Under Russia's Attack
2022
Oscar and Lucinda
1997
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2012
Hanna
2011
Hot Fuzz
2007
The Turning
2013
How to Train Your Dragon 2
2014
Stories of Lost Souls
2004
The New Boy
2023
Paradise Road
1997
The Real Robin Hood
2010
Knight of Cups
2015
Thank God He Met Lizzie
1997
Can Creativity Save the World?
2024
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
2014
Inside 'The Talented Mr. Ripley'
2000
The Monuments Men
2014
Blue Jasmine
2013
Girl Rising
2013
Matthew Gray Gubler's Life Aquatic Intern Journal
2005
The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden
2014
Rumours
2024
Carol
2015
The School for Good and Evil
2022
Ukraine: Life Under Attack: Dispatches
2022
Eyes Wide Shut
1999
In the Company of Actors
2007
Father Mother Sister Brother
2025
Voyage of Time: Life's Journey
2017
Truth
2015
Black Bag
2025
Ocean's Team 3.0
2018
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
2022
Euphoria
2022
Evolver
2023
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: Handcarved Cinema
2022
Police Rescue: The Movie
1994
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
2013
Manifesto
2017
Thor: Ragnarok
2017
Parklands
1996
A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'
2004
Ocean's Eight
2018
Song to Song
2017
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
2019
Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle
2018
Red
2017
Quest for the Ring
2001
Jill Bilcock: The Art of Film Editing
2017
Refugee
2016
Passage to Middle-Earth: The Making of 'The Lord of the Rings'
2001
A Cautionary Tail
2012
The House with a Clock in Its Walls
2018
This Is an Adventure
2005
Spielberg
2017
Jill Bilcock: Dancing the Invisible
2018
This Changes Everything
2019
Earthflight 3D
2016
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
2019
On the Set: 'The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou'
2005
The Curious Birth of Benjamin Button
2009
Beyond the Movie: The Fellowship of the Ring
2001
Journey to the South Pacific
2013
Nightmare Alley
2021
Bangers
1999
Stuart X
2019
Sweet Tooth
2019
Borderlands
2024
Don't Look Up
2021
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
2022
The Four Temperaments
2020
Symphony Of The Invisible
2020
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Bangers | 1999 | Producer |
| Carol | 2015 | Executive Producer |
| Apples | 2021 | Executive Producer |
| Ukraine: Life Under Russia's Attack | 2022 | Executive Producer |
| TÁR | 2022 | Executive Producer |
| Knowing the Score | 2023 | Executive Producer |
| The New Boy | 2023 | Producer |
| Shayda | 2023 | Executive Producer |
| Fingernails | 2023 | Producer |
| Evolver | 2023 | Executive Producer |
| Rumours | 2024 | Executive Producer |
| Marion | 2024 | Executive Producer |
| Queerbait | 2025 | Executive Producer |
| A Man Who Takes Pictures of Flowers | 2025 | Executive Producer |
| 11:11 | 2025 | Executive Producer |