Cate Blanchett

Born: 1969-05-14 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Known For: Acting

Biography

Catherine Elise Blanchett (born May 14, 1969) is an Australian actor and producer. Regarded as one of the best actresses of her generation, she is known for her versatile work across independent films, blockbusters, and the stage. Blanchett is the recipient of numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, three British Academy Film Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards. After graduating from the National Institute of Dramatic Art, Blanchett began her acting career on the Australian stage, taking on roles in Electra in 1992 and Hamlet in 1994. She came to international attention as Elizabeth I in the drama film Elizabeth (1998), for which she won the Golden Globe and BAFTA Award for Best Actress, and received her first of seven Academy Award nominations. Her portrayal of Katharine Hepburn in Martin Scorsese's The Aviator (2004) won her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She later won the Academy Award for Best Actress for playing a neurotic former socialite in Woody Allen's comedy-drama Blue Jasmine (2013). Blanchett's other Oscar-nominated roles include Notes on a Scandal (2006), I'm Not There (2007), Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007), and Carol (2015). Her highest-grossing films include The Lord of the Rings (2001–2003) and The Hobbit (2012–2014) trilogies, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008), Cinderella (2015), Thor: Ragnarok (2017), and Ocean's 8 (2018). Blanchett has performed in over 20 theatre productions. From 2008 to 2013, she and her husband, Andrew Upton, were the artistic directors of the Sydney Theatre Company. Some of her stage roles during that period were in revivals of A Streetcar Named Desire, Uncle Vanya and The Maids, garnering several theatre awards and nominations. She made her Broadway debut in 2017 in The Present, for which she received a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play nomination. Blanchett has also received Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie and Outstanding Limited Series as producer for the FX/Hulu historical drama miniseries Mrs. America (2020).

Filmography

2025

Black Bag as Kathryn St. Jean
Father Mother Sister Brother as Timothea
Queerbait ... (Executive Producer)
Mr. Scorsese as Self
Bozo Over Roses
11:11 ... (Executive Producer)
A Man Who Takes Pictures of Flowers ... (Executive Producer)

2024

Borderlands as Lilith
Disclaimer as Catherine Ravenscroft
Marion ... (Executive Producer)
Can Creativity Save the World? as Self
Rumours as Hilda Orlmann
Our Living World as Self - Narrator (voice)
VOGUE: Inventing the Runway as Narrator

2023

The Fundraiser as Lydia Tár
The New Boy as Sister Eileen
Faut Voir - L'hebdo cinéma as Self - Guest
Evolver as Self - Narrator (voice)
Taskmaster as Self - Cameo
Harrison Ford: Hollywood Hero as Self
Fingernails ... (Producer)
Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled as Self
Shayda ... (Executive Producer)
Knowing the Score ... (Executive Producer)

2022

The School for Good and Evil as The Storian (voice)
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio as Spazzatura (voice)
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg as Self
Euphoria as Tiger (voice)
TÁR as Lydia Tár
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: Handcarved Cinema as Self
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony as Self
Ukraine: Life Under Russia's Attack as Self - Narrator (voice)
Ukraine: Life Under Attack: Dispatches as Self - Narrator (voice)

2021

Squid Game as The Recruiter
What If...? as Hela (voice)
Don't Look Up as Brie Evantee
Marvel Studios Legends as Hela (archive footage) (uncredited)
Nightmare Alley as Dr. Lilith Ritter
Apples ... (Executive Producer)
Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age as Self - Actress (archive footage)