Cate Blanchett Biography

Cate Blanchett Profile Biography – Biographyzone.com. Cate Blanchett, Catherine Elise Blanchett was born May 14, 1969 in Melbourne in the state of Victoria in Australia is an Australian actress. From an Australian mother and a Texan father from Quebec, she grew up in Ivanhoe, near Melbourne, with his brother and sister. His father died when she was 10 years.

Cate Blanchett Career History

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Born	Catherine Élise Blanchett 14 May 1969 (1969-05-14) (age 42) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Occupation	Actress Theatre director
Years active	1993–present
Spouse	Andrew Upton (m. 1997-present; 3 children

Cate is intended initially to study the arts and the economy, but during a trip to Egypt, she discovered the movie business by participating as a dancer in the movie Kaboria, which decides to attend the Theatre Studies . She enrolled in Australia’s National Institute of Dramatic Art, where she graduated in 1992.

Career
Beginning a career as an actress, between the theater – where she plays The Seagull by Chekhov in 1996 – and television, which allows him to build a small reputation in Australia, she tried the cinema with the drama Thank God He Met Lizzie (1997), opposite Richard Roxburgh before turning in the direction of Gillian Armstrong in drama Oscar and Lucinda (1997) in which she co-starred with Ralph Fiennes.

But it is for his performance in the drama Paradise Road (1998) Bruce Beresford against Glenn Close and Frances McDormand and the biographical drama Elizabeth (1998) Shekhar Kapur Cate accesses the consecration. For the role of Queen Elizabeth I, she camped with a talent and a rare intensity, she won the Golden Globe for best dramatic actress and an Oscar nomination for best actress.

She then gives the answer to John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton and Angelina Jolie in Pushing Tin comedy (2000) before rub Jude Law, Matt Damon and Gwyneth Paltrow in The Talented Mr. Ripley (2000) Anthony Minghella and play role of a dancer with a heart in the independent drama The Man Who Cried (2001) opposite Christina Ricci and Johnny Depp.

She then gets his biggest success in the fantasy trilogy by Peter Jackson, The Lord of the Rings (2001, 2002 and 2003) in which she played Queen Galadriel of Elves. Trying his hand at all genres, she plays a psychic medium in the thriller The Gift (2000) Sam Raimi, a woman loving a younger man in the romantic drama Heaven (2002), an eccentric woman initiated by banditry Bruce Willis and Billy Bob Thornton in the comedy Bandits (2001) before camping the dead wife of Kevin Spacey in the drama Newfoundland (2002), Lasse Hallström. Magnet camp women fist as in the western The Missing (2003) opposite Tommy Lee Jones, she was confided characters who really existed as the Irish journalist Veronica Guerin in the drama namesake Joel Schumacher (2003) and actress Katharine Hepburn in The Aviator fresco (2004) Martin Scorsese, which earned him recognition from his peers because it gets the Oscar in 2005 for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.

Actress with a great sense of eclecticism, it favors the directors of quality, it rotates under the direction of Alejandro González Iñárritu’s drama in its cosmopolitan Babel (2006) with Brad Pitt, Steven Soderbergh’s The Good German (2007) or Richard Eyre in the vicious Notes on a Scandal (ibid.) in which she portrays a pedophile teacher manipulated by the masterful Judi Dench, a performance that earned him a 2007 Oscar nomination, best supporting actress.

In 2007, she plays one of 6 Bob Dylan in Todd Haynes film “I’m Not There”, a role that will allow him to receive a Golden Globe and another Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress. In February 2008, she was chosen by the Australian Government to chair a steering committee on the future of cinema and theater in Australia. The summit called “Creative Australia” is being held on 19 and 20 April 2008 in Canberra. She won the role of the Russian scientist Irina Spalko in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull by Steven Spielberg (2008).

Privacy
Cate Blanchett is married since 1997 with Andrew Upton with whom she had three children, Dashiell, Roman and Ignatius. She lives in Hunters Hill near Sydney. (Source : http://biographyzone.com/cate-blanchett-biography/)