Cate Blanchett - Everything You Need To Know
Catherine Élise "Cate" Blanchett is an Australian actress and theatre director. She was born on 14th May 1969 to parents June and Robert "Bob" Blanchett. She attended Ivanhoe Girls' Grammar School and then Methodist Ladies' College, from where she graduated. She studied Economics and Fine Arts at the University of Melbourne.
Before entering theatre she enrolled herself at the "National Institute of Dramatic Art" and graduated in the year 1992. Her major role at the theatre came with her role in the David Mamet play "Oleanna" in 1993. Her portrayal of this role won her "Sydney Theatre Critics' Best Newcomer Award". She also appeared in few miniseries like the "Heartland" and "Bordertown" and telemovies like the "Police Rescue".
She made her first international film debut in 1997 with the movie "Paradise Road". Through her first role in the lead came with another movie, the same year, "Oscar and Lucinda" which was an adaptation from the novel by Peter Carey, which won the 1988 Booker Prize. This movie gave her, her first nomination for Australian Film Institute Award as Best Leading Actress for the role. She also won the AFI Award as Supporting Actress for her role in the romantic comedy "Thank God He Met Lizzie" in 1997.
Her breakthrough in the international films came with the movie "Elizabeth" for which she won the Academy Award nomination for Best Actress and won the British Academy Award (BAFTA) and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama. She also worked in the movie "The Lord of the Rings". The movie holds the record being the highest grossing film trilogy of all time.
Her role in the film "Aviator" won her "Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress" in 2005. In 2007 she was named the most successful actress by Forbes magazine and was also tagged by the Times magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
In 2007 for her role in "I'm Not There" she won the Volpi Cup Best Actress Award at the Venice Film Festival and the Best Supporting Actress Golden Globe Award. Blanchett also received two Academy Award nominations; Best Actress for Elizabeth: the Golden Age and Best Supporting Actress for the movie. She became the eleventh actor to receive two acting nominations in the same year and the first female actor to receive another nomination for the reprisal of a role.
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