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
People who say, 'There's nothing to fear from spiders' have clearly never been to Australia.
I think about my father and how sad it was that he never had grandchildren.
Happiness is fleeting - I think that's the main lesson I have learned.
Australia is a remarkable country with incredible technical and physical resources and a capacity to be a world leader in renewables.
I care about climate change because of our children. I want to safeguard their future.
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.
Germany is a country that has absolutely had to since the Second World War ask itself massive moral questions. And it's reforged its identity based on culture. I mean, the amount of artists living and working in Berlin is unparalleled. It's one of the strongest economies, not only in Europe, but globally, and it's because of its understanding of the importance of culture.
If you know why someone is doing what they're doing, why they're behaving the way they are, then that's your job to reveal that, and often that's situational. The storytelling does that, and then some of it's your job as an actor to make that subtext come to life.
Working with Woody [Allen] is like an emotional strip club without the cash.
If you over plan New Year's Eve it's going to be a disaster so you have to be alive to changes.
I think when you fall in love, whether you're heterosexual, transgender, gay, lesbian, whatever, straight, you feel like it's happening to you for the first time.
It's interesting when you get those roles, which seem like nothing on the page, and you kind of subvert them. It's hard to say no.
Oftentimes you walk on set and then suddenly you're in bed with someone who you've never met before.
If I'm not good at acting, I'm not good at anything else.