Cate Blanchett
Cate Blanchett
Catherine Élise "Cate" Blanchettis an Australian actress and theatre director. She has received international acclaim and many accolades, including two Academy Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and three British Academy Awards. Blanchett came to international attention for her role as Elizabeth I of England in Shekhar Kapur's 1998 film Elizabeth, for which she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress, the Golden Globe Award, and earned her first Academy Award for Best Actress nomination. Her...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth14 May 1969
CityMelbourne, Australia
CountryAustralia
I've known the panic of financial struggle. I didn't grow up with money at all, and my family has certainly known the panic of, 'Oh, gosh, where's the next bit of money coming from?'
That's absolutely what Tracy comes to incorporate into her sense of self,
I want to be able to follow the example of those extraordinary British actresses who move effortlessly from film to TV to theatre roles.
When I emerged from drama school, I had no expectation that I would ever work in film.
When I have my moments of insomnia, you'll find me on style.com.
There is a societal cost of increased pollution, and that's what I'm passionate about as a mother.
When I came out of drama school, I was in a shared house in Sydney.
Woody Allen is a great dramatist and a great comedian.
There are certain people who prize celebrity over substance. That makes the media world go round. The media needs those people to exist.
What I think of as a mistake might be something that does really well at the box office, so I'm my own harshest critic - as we all are, really.
We keep making the same mistakes as a species, and you can usually draw it back to the fact that we are all terrified of dying. We also all think that we are going to escape it until we get to 65!
The Oscar is very beautiful, utterly mesmeric, but I don't feel any more important because I have won one. It doesn't mean I'm any better than anyone.
Playing the lead in a film where you shoot for three months away from home is not an easy thing for me when my children are in school and my husband is running a theatre company.
I think there is a long exploration in American drama of women in particular who, by force of circumstances or because they are predisposed to, choose fantasy over reality.