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
You're always more critical of your own country. People will talk about stuff in Britain, and I'll go: 'Aw, it's not that bad,' but at home, it's different. It's inside you.
Once you get an offer from Steven Soderbergh, you just do anything you can to make it fit.
No one wants to see me struggling to get a horse under control because I can't ride it. And no one wants to see me not knowing how to deal with the psychological makeup of the character.
Ageing is something that both men and women are utterly terrified about.
I think the atmosphere on set really comes from the material, but also the director.
It is so interesting when you meet an actor in real life and they look completely different.
I think when I was pregnant with my first child - he's about 10 or 11 now - I first noticed changes in my skin, which can make you panic a bit. I had a bit of melasma.
I think the more you do as an actor, the more facility you have to switch on and off.
I think there are way too many films made, and I've probably made way too many films.
I think sometimes when you're working consistently in film, and maybe this is just me, but you do feel quite dislocated from your audience.
I said to Martin Scorsese, 'When are you going to make another film with a woman at the center?'
I remember thinking, when I was playing Hedda Gabler, that several sequences of the play were utterly absurd.
People are always saying they loved me in 'Titanic.'
Passion is a quality I admire in a woman.