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Cate Blanchett
Australian actor and producer (born )
"Cate Upton" redirects here. Not to be confused with Kate Upton.
Catherine Élise BlanchettAC (BLAN-chit;[2] born 14 May ) is an Australian actor[a] and film producer.
Regarded as one of the best performers of her generation, she is recognized for her versatile work across independent films, blockbusters, and the stage. Blanchett has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, four British Academy Film Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards, in addition to nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards and a Tony Award.
A graduate of the National Institute of Dramatic Art, Blanchett began her career on the Australian stage in and made her feature film debut in She came to international prominence for her performance as Queen Elizabeth I in the period drama Elizabeth (), for which she received her first Academy Award nomination.
Cate blanchett biography children Australia Council for the Arts. Demi Moore. December Archived from the original on 28 MayHer portrayal of Katharine Hepburn in the biopic The Aviator () 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 the comedy-drama Blue Jasmine (). Blanchett's other Oscar-nominated roles are in Notes on a Scandal (), I'm Not There (), Elizabeth: The Golden Age (), Carol (), and Tár (), making her the most-nominated Australian.
Her biggest commercial successes include The Lord of the Rings trilogy (–), Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (), Cinderella (), Thor: Ragnarok (), Ocean's 8 (), and Don't Look Up ().
Blanchett has performed in over twenty stage productions.
She and her husband, Andrew Upton, were the artistic directors of the Sydney Theatre Company from to Some of her stage roles during this period were in revivals of A Streetcar Named Desire, Uncle Vanya, Big and Little and The Maids. She made her Broadway debut in in The Present, for which she received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play.
She has also produced and starred in the miniseries Mrs. America (), in which she portrayed Phyllis Schlafly, and Disclaimer (); the former earned her two Emmy Award nominations.
Brad pitt biography Always, in my industry or any other industry, they're preyed upon because they're vulnerable. Archived from the original on 29 November Archived from the original PDF on 2 April Blanchett at the Venice Film Festival.Blanchett is the recipient of several honorary awards. The Australian government awarded her the Centenary Medal in , and she was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia in [4] In , she was appointed Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government. In , she was honoured by the Museum of Modern Art and received the British Film Institute Fellowship.
Blanchett has received honorary Doctor of Letters degrees from the University of New South Wales, University of Sydney and Macquarie University. Time named her one of its most influential people in the world in In , she was ranked among the world's highest-paid actresses.
Early life and education
Catherine Élise Blanchett was born on 14 May in the Melbourne suburb of Ivanhoe.[5][6] Her Australian mother, June (née Gamble),[7] was a property developer and teacher; and her American father, Robert DeWitt Blanchett Jr., a Texas native, was a United States NavyChief Petty Officer who became an advertising executive.[8][9][10] They met when Robert's ship broke down in Melbourne.[11] When Blanchett was ten, her father died of a heart attack, leaving her mother to raise the family.[12][13] Blanchett is the second of three children, with an older brother and younger sister.[12] Her ancestry includes English, some Scottish, and remote French roots.[13][14][15]
Blanchett has described herself as a "part extrovert, part wallflower" child.[12] During her teenage years she had a penchant for dressing in traditionally masculine clothing, and went through goth and punk phases, at one point shaving her head.[12] She attended primary school in Melbourne at Ivanhoe East Primary School; for her secondary education, she attended Ivanhoe Girls' Grammar School and then Methodist Ladies' College, where she explored her passion for the performing arts.[16] In her late teens and early twenties, she worked at a nursing home in Victoria.[17] After high school, she began a Bachelor of business administration at the University of Melbourne.
While in Egypt, Blanchett was asked to be an extra as an American cheerleader in the Egyptian boxing film Kaboria (); in need of money, she accepted the job.[12][18][19] On returning to Australia, she moved to Sydney and enrolled at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA),[18] graduating in with a Bachelor of Fine Arts.[12]
Career
– Early work and international breakthrough
Blanchett's first stage role was opposite Geoffrey Rush, in the David Mamet play Oleanna for the Sydney Theatre Company.
That year, she was also cast as Clytemnestra in a production of Sophocles' Electra. A couple of weeks after rehearsals, the actress playing the title role pulled out, and director Lindy Davies cast Blanchett in the role. Her performance as Electra became one of her most acclaimed at NIDA.[11] In , Blanchett was awarded the Sydney Theatre Critics' Best Newcomer Award for her performance in Timothy Daly's Kafka Dances and won Best Actress for her performance in Mamet's Oleanna, making her the first actor to win both categories in the same year.[11] Blanchett played the role of Ophelia in a – Company B production of Hamlet directed by Neil Armfield, starring Rush and Richard Roxburgh, and was nominated for a Green Room Award.[20]
Blanchett's first screen appearance was in the TV miniseries Heartland[21] opposite Ernie Dingo, and she went on to appear in the miniseries Bordertown () with Hugo Weaving, and in an episode of Police Rescue entitled "The Loaded Boy".[22][23] She also appeared in the minute drama short film Parklands (), which received an Australian Film Institute (AFI) nomination for Best Original Screenplay.[24][25]
Blanchett made her feature film debut with a supporting role as an Australian nurse captured by the Japanese Army during World War II, in Bruce Beresford's film Paradise Road (), which co-starred Glenn Close and Frances McDormand.[13] The film made just over $2&#;million at the box office on a budget of $19&#;million and received mixed reviews from critics.[26][27] Her first leading role came later that year as eccentric heiress Lucinda Leplastrier in Gillian Armstrong's romantic drama Oscar and Lucinda (), opposite Ralph Fiennes.[13] Blanchett received wide acclaim for her performance,[18] with Emanuel Levy of Variety declaring, "luminous newcomer Blanchett, in a role originally intended for Judy Davis, is bound to become a major star".[28] She earned her first AFI Award nomination as Best Leading Actress for Oscar and Lucinda.[29] She won the AFI Best Actress Award in the same year for her starring role as Lizzie in the romantic comedy Thank God He Met Lizzie (), co-starring Richard Roxburgh and Frances O'Connor.[18]
Blanchett's played a young Elizabeth I in the historical drama Elizabeth (), directed by Shekhar Kapur.
The film catapulted her to international prominence, earning her the Golden Globe Award and British Academy Award (BAFTA), and her first Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.[11][20] In his review for Variety, critic David Rooney wrote of her performance, "Blanchett conveys with grace, poise and intelligence that Elizabeth was a wily, decisive, advanced thinker, far too aware of her own exceptional nature to bow to any man.
[She] builds the juicy character almost imperceptibly from a smart but wary young woman who may be in over her head into a powerful creature of her own invention."[30]Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote that Blanchett's performance "brings spirit, beauty and substance to what otherwise might have been turned into a vacuous role",[31] and Alicia Potter writing for the Boston Phoenix stated that, "In the end, Kapur's crown jewel is a tale of twin transformations, that of Elizabeth into one of history's most enigmatic and powerful women, and that of Blanchett into, well, a bona fide screen queen."[32]
The following year, Blanchett appeared in Bangers (), an Australian short film and part of Stories of Lost Souls, a compilation of thematically related short stories.
The short was written and directed by her husband, Andrew Upton, and produced by Blanchett and Upton.[33][34] She also appeared in the Mike Newell comedy Pushing Tin (), with her performance singled out by critics,[18] and the critically acclaimed and financially successful film The Talented Mr.
Ripley (), alongside Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, and Philip Seymour Hoffman. She received her second BAFTA nomination for her performance as Meredith Logue in The Talented Mr. Ripley.[13]
– The Lord of the Rings and established actor
Blanchett appeared in Peter Jackson's blockbuster trilogy, The Lord of the Rings, playing the role of elf leader Galadriel in all three films.[13] The trilogy was a major critical and financial success, earning $&#;billion at the box office worldwide,[35][36][37] and all three films were later ranked within the top 10 greatest fantasy movies of all time in a poll conducted by American magazine Wired in [38] In addition to The Lord of the Rings, also saw Blanchett diversify her portfolio with a range of roles in the dramas Charlotte Gray and The Shipping News and the American crime-comedy Bandits, for which she earned a second Golden Globe and SAG Award nomination.[39]Bandits marked Blanchett's first notable foray into the comedy genre, with Ben Falk of the BBC declaring her and co-star Billy Bob Thornton "a real find as comedians" and calling her performance as an unsatisfied housewife caught between two escaped convicts, "unhinged, though undeniably sexy".[40]
In , Blanchett starred opposite Giovanni Ribisi in Tom Tykwer-directed Heaven, the first film in an unfinished trilogy by writer-director Krzysztof Kieślowski.[20][41] Her performance in the film as a grieving woman who commits a desperate act of terrorism was highly praised, with Stephen Holden of The New York Times calling it, "the most compelling screen performance of her career" and going on to state, "Although Ms.
Blanchett's face has always registered emotion with a mercurial fluidity, the immediacy of feeling she conveys in "Heaven" is astonishing."[42] saw Blanchett again playing a wide range of roles: Galadriel in the third and final instalment of the Lord of the Rings trilogy (which won the Academy Award for Best Picture);[43] the Ron Howard-directed western thriller The Missing; Jim Jarmusch's Coffee and Cigarettes, playing two roles (both against herself), for which she received an Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female nomination;[44] and the biographical Veronica Guerin, which earned her a Golden Globe Best Actress Drama nomination.[20] In , Blanchett portrayed a pregnant journalist chronicling an underwater voyage by an eccentric oceanographer in Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.[45]
Blanchett won her first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in , for her highly acclaimed portrayal of Katharine Hepburn in Martin Scorsese's The Aviator ().[46] This made Blanchett the first actor in history to win an Academy Award for portraying another Academy Award-winning actor.[47] She lent her Oscar statuette to the Australian Centre for the Moving Image.[48] In his review for Newsweek, David Ansen wrote that Blanchett portrayed Hepburn with "lip-smacking vivacity",[49] and Roger Ebert lauded the performance, describing it as "delightful and yet touching; mannered and tomboyish".[50] During her preparation for the role, and at the request of Scorsese, Blanchett reviewed millimetre prints of all of Hepburn's first 15 screen performances to study and memorise her poise, mannerisms and speech pattern.[51] Blanchett spoke of the responsibility of portraying such an iconic star, stating, "Representing Kate in the same medium, film, in which she existed was very daunting.
But because she was so private and few people really knew her, we basically know Hepburn through her films. So of course you have to give a nod to her screen persona when playing her."[51] That year, Blanchett also won the Australian Film Institute Best Actress Award for her performance as Tracy Heart, a former heroin addict, in the Australian film Little Fish (), co-produced by her and her husband's production company, Dirty Films.[33] Though lesser known globally than some of her other films, the sober and sensitive[52]Little Fish received great critical acclaim in Blanchett's native Australia and was nominated for 13 Australian Film Institute awards.[53][54]
In , Blanchett portrayed Hedda Gabler at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in the Sydney Theatre Company production of Hedda Gabler, directed by Robyn Nevin.[55] She then starred opposite Brad Pitt in Alejandro González Iñárritu's multi-lingual, multi-narrative drama Babel, as one half of a grieving couple who get caught up in an international incident in Morocco.
Babel received seven Academy Award nominations.[56] She also co-starred in Steven Soderbergh's World War II-era drama The Good German with George Clooney, and the psychological thriller Notes on a Scandal opposite Dame Judi Dench.[18][20] Blanchett received a third Academy Award nomination for her performance in the latter film,[57] where she portrays a lonely teacher who embarks on an affair with a year-old student and becomes the object of obsession for an older woman played by Dench.
Both Blanchett's and Dench's performances were highly acclaimed, with Peter Bradshaw writing in The Guardian, "Director Richard Eyre, with unshowy authority, gets the best out of Dench and Blanchett and, with great shrewdness, elicits from these two actors all the little tensions and exasperations - as well as the genuine tenderness - in their tragically fraught relationship."[58]
In , Blanchett was named one of Time magazine's Most Influential People in the World,[59] and appeared on Forbes'Celebrity list.[60] She made a cameo as Janine, forensic scientist and ex-girlfriend of Simon Pegg's character, in Edgar Wright's action comedy film Hot Fuzz ().
Cate blanchett filmography Retrieved 7 December Retrieved 10 August Archived from the original on 3 November Archived from the original on 10 MarchThe cameo was uncredited and she gave her fee to charity.[61] She reprised her role as Queen Elizabeth I in the sequel Elizabeth: The Golden Age directed by Shekhar Kapur, and portrayed Jude Quinn, one of six incarnations of Bob Dylan in Todd Haynes' experimental film I'm Not There. She won the Volpi Cup Best Actress Award at the Venice Film Festival, the Independent Spirit Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Jude Quinn.[62][63][64] At the 80th Academy Awards, Blanchett received two nominations – Best Actress for Elizabeth: the Golden Age and Best Supporting Actress for I'm Not There – becoming the first actress to receive a second nomination with the reprisal of a role.[65] Of her achievement that year, Roger Ebert said, "That Blanchett could appear in the same Toronto International Film Festival playing Elizabeth and Bob Dylan, both splendidly, is a wonder of acting."[66]
– Directing the Sydney Theatre Company
Blanchett next appeared in Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (), as the villainous KGB agent Col.
Dr. Irina Spalko.[67] The film received mixed reviews from critics and audiences but was a major box office success, grossing over $&#;million worldwide.[68] In David Fincher's Oscar-nominated The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, she co-starred with Brad Pitt for a second time, playing the title character's love interest, Daisy Fuller.
In the same year, Blanchett voiced the character of Granmamare for the English language version of Hayao Miyazaki's Ponyo, released in July [69]
Also in , Blanchett and her husband Andrew Upton became co-CEOs and artistic directors of the Sydney Theatre Company.[70][71] Blanchett returned to acting in the theatre in with the Sydney Theatre Company production of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, directed by Liv Ullmann.
She starred as Blanche DuBois alongside Joel Edgerton as Stanley Kowalski. Ullmann and Blanchett had been meaning to collaborate on a project since Ullman's intended film adaption of A Doll's House fell by the wayside.
Pushing tin Retrieved 6 March Archived from the original on 24 June Archived from the original on 2 February In , Blanchett returned to the character Galadriel yet again, this time for a new Jackson-directed series, The Hobbit.Blanchett proposed embarking on Streetcar to Ullmann, who jumped at the opportunity after initial discussion.[72][73]
A Streetcar Named Desire production travelled from Sydney to the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York, and the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.[74][75] It was a critical and commercial success and Blanchett received acclaim for her performance as Blanche DuBois.[79]The New York Times critic Ben Brantley said, "Ms.
Ullmann and Ms. Blanchett have performed the play as if it had never been staged before, with the result that, as a friend of mine put it, 'you feel like you're hearing words you thought you knew pronounced correctly for the first time.'"[80]John Lahr of The New Yorker wrote of her portrayal, "with her alert mind, her informed heart, and her lithe, patrician silhouette, [Blanchett] gets it right from the first beat&#; I don't expect to see a better performance of this role in my lifetime."[81]Jane Fonda, who attended a New York show, deemed it "perhaps the greatest stage performance I have ever seen",[82] and Meryl Streep declared, "That performance was as naked, as raw and extraordinary and astonishing and surprising and scary as anything I've ever seen&#; I thought I'd seen that play, I thought I knew all the lines by heart, because I've seen it so many times, but I'd never seen the play until I saw that performance."[83] Blanchett won the Sydney Theatre Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role.[84] The production and Blanchett received Helen Hayes Awards, for Outstanding Non-Resident Production and Outstanding Lead Actress in a Non-Resident Production award, respectively.[85]
In , Blanchett starred as Lady Marion opposite Russell Crowe's titular hero in Ridley Scott's epicRobin Hood.
The film received mixed reviews from critics[86] but was a financial success, earning $&#;million at the worldwide box office.[87] In , she played the antagonist CIA agent Marissa Wiegler in Joe Wright's action thriller film Hanna, co-starring with Saoirse Ronan and Eric Bana.[88]
In , Blanchett took part in two Sydney Theatre Company productions.
She played Lotte Kotte in a new translation of Botho Strauß's play Groß und klein (Big and Small) from Martin Crimp, directed by Benedict Andrews.[89] After its Sydney run, the production travelled to London, Paris, the Vienna Festival and Ruhrfestspiele.[10] Blanchett and the production received wide acclaim.[95] Blanchett was nominated for the Evening Standard Theatre Awards for Best Actress,[96] and won the Sydney Theatre Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role[97] and the Helpmann Award for Best Actress.[98] She then played Yelena, opposite Hugo Weaving and Richard Roxburgh, in Andrew Upton's adaptation of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, which travelled to the Kennedy Center and the New York City Center as part of the Lincoln Center Festival.[99] The production and Blanchett received critical acclaim,[] with The New York Times' Ben Brantley declaring, "I consider the three hours I spent on Saturday night watching [the characters] complain about how bored they are among the happiest of my theatregoing life&#; This Uncle Vanya gets under your skin like no other I have seen&#; [Blanchett] confirms her status as one of the best and bravest actresses on the planet."[]The Washington Post's Peter Marks dubbed the production Washington, D.C.'s top theatrical event of [7] Blanchett received the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Non-Resident Production, and the Helpmann Award for Best Actress.[98][]
– Blue Jasmine and resurgence in Hollywood
Blanchett reprised her role as Galadriel in Peter Jackson's adaptations of The Hobbit (–), prequel to The Lord of the Rings series, filmed in New Zealand.[] While less critically acclaimed than The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Hobbit trilogy was nonetheless a major box office success, earning nearly $3&#;billion worldwide.[][][] The character of Galadriel does not appear in J.R.R.
Tolkien's original novel, but the story was amended by co-writer Guillermo del Toro and director Peter Jackson so that Blanchett could appear in the film trilogy.[] She voiced the role of "Penelope" in the Family Guy episode "Mr. and Mrs. Stewie", which aired on 29 April , and Queen Elizabeth II in the episode "Family Guy Viewer Mail 2".[][] Blanchett returned to Australian film with her appearance in The Turning (), an anthology film based on a collection of short stories by Tim Winton.[] She was head of jury of the and Dubai International Film Festival.[] The Sydney Theatre Company's season was Blanchett's final one as co-CEO and artistic director.[70][]
In , Blanchett played Jasmine Francis, the lead role in Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine, co-starring Alec Baldwin and Sally Hawkins.
Her performance garnered widespread acclaim, with some critics considering it to be the finest of her career to that point (surpassing her performance in Elizabeth).[] In his review for The Guardian, Mark Kermode proclaimed, "Blanchett takes on the challenge like a peak-fitness runner facing a marathon, ploughing her way through 26 miles of emotional road pounding, with all the ups and downs, strains and tears, stomach turns and heartburns that that entails, a feat that occasionally leaves her (and us) gasping for breath."[]Peter Travers, reviewing the film for Rolling Stone, called Blanchett's performance, "miraculous", and went on to write, "The sight of Jasmine – lost, alone and unable to conjure magic out of unyielding reality – is devastating.
This is Blanchett triumphant, and not to be missed."[] The performance won her more than 40 industry and critics' awards, including the LAFCA Award, NYFCC Award, NSFC Award, Critics' Choice Award, Santa Barbara International Film Festival Outstanding Performance of the Year Award, SAG Award, Golden Globe Award, BAFTA Award, Independent Film Spirit Award and the Academy Award for Best Actress.[] Blanchett's win made her just the sixth actress to win an Oscar in both of the acting categories, the third to win Best Actress after Best Supporting Actress, and the first Australian to win more than one acting Oscar.[][][]
Allen's adopted daughter Dylan Farrow has since criticised Blanchett and other actresses for working with Allen.[][] Blanchett responded, "It's obviously been a long and painful situation for the family and I hope they find some resolution and peace."[] On the subject of the Me Too movement, Blanchett said she thinks that "social media is fantastic about raising awareness about issues, but it's not the judge and jury" and the cases "need to go into court, so if these abuses have happened, the person is prosecuted, so someone, who is not in the shiny industry that I am, can use that legal precedent to protect themselves.
Always, in my industry or any other industry, they're preyed upon because they're vulnerable."[][]
In , Blanchett co-starred with Matt Damon and George Clooney in the latter's ensemble film, The Monuments Men, based on the true story of a crew of art historians and museum curators who recover renowned works of art stolen by Nazis.[] The French heroine Rose Valland was an inspiration for Blanchett's character of Claire Simone.[]The Monuments Men received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $&#;million at the worldwide box office.[] That year, Blanchett also voiced the part of Valka in the DreamWorks Animation film How to Train Your Dragon 2.[] The film received critical acclaim and was a box office success.[] It went on to win the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film and receive a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.[][] Blanchett guest starred on the Australian show Rake, as the onscreen female version of Richard Roxburgh's rogue protagonist, Cleaver.[] On 29 January , she co-hosted the 4th AACTA Awards with Deborah Mailman.[]
In , Blanchett starred in five films.
She portrayed Nancy in Terrence Malick's Knight Of Cups, which premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival.[]IndieWire named Blanchett's performance in Knight of Cups one of the 15 best performances in Terrence Malick films.[] She starred as the villainous Lady Tremaine in Disney's Kenneth Branagh-directed live-action adaptation of Cinderella, to critical acclaim.[][] Writing for Time magazine, Richard Corliss declared that "Blanchett [earns top billing], radiating a hauteur that chills as it amuses; the performance is grand without skirting parody."[] She then starred opposite Rooney Mara in Carol, the film adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's The Price of Salt, reuniting her with director Todd Haynes.
Blanchett, who also served as an executive producer of the film, drew rave reviews for her performance as the titular character, which was widely cited as one of the best of her career, alongside Elizabeth and Blue Jasmine. Justin Chang of Variety proclaimed, "As a study in the way beautiful surfaces can simultaneously conceal and expose deeper meanings, [Blanchett's] performance represents an all-too-fitting centerpiece for this magnificently realized movie."[][] For Carol, Blanchett received again Oscar, Golden Globe, and BAFTA Award nominations.[][][]
Blanchett portrayed Mary Mapes opposite Robert Redford's Dan Rather in Truth (), a film about the Killian documents controversy.
Blanchett's production company was a producing partner for the film.[] She then starred in Manifesto, Julian Rosefeldt's multi-screen video installation, in which 12 artist manifestos are depicted by 13 different characters all played by Blanchett.[] The project, and Blanchett, received critical acclaim,[] with Roberta Smith of The New York Times stating: "If the art world gave out Oscars, Cate Blanchett should win for her tour de force of starring roles in 'Manifesto'".[] In , Blanchett narrated one of two versions of Terence Malick's documentary on Earth and the universe, Voyage of Time, which had its world premiere at the 73rd Venice Film Festival.[][][]
– Broadway debut and television success
Blanchett starred in the Sydney Theatre Company play The Present, Andrew Upton's adaption of Anton Chekhov's play Platonov, directed by John Crowley.[] The production debuted in Sydney in , to critical acclaim, and transferred to Broadway in ,[][] marking Blanchett's Broadway debut.[] Blanchett's performance during the play's Broadway run received acclaim.
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Ben Brantley of The New York Times remarked that "Blanchett knows how to hold a stage and, if necessary, hijack it&#; Such commanding, try-anything charisma is useful if you're attempting to hold together a badly assembled party or, for that matter, play."[][] For her work, Blanchett received a Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Play,[] a Drama Desk Award nomination,[] and a Drama League Award nomination for the Distinguished Performance Award.[] In , Blanchett also appeared in Terrence Malick's Song to Song, shot back-to-back with Knight of Cups in ,[] and portrayed the goddess of death Hela in the Marvel Studios film Thor: Ragnarok, directed by Taika Waititi.[]Thor: Ragnarok was both a critical and financial success, earning $&#;million at the worldwide box office.[]
In , Blanchett starred in Ocean's 8, the all-female spin-off of the Ocean's Eleven franchise, directed by Gary Ross, opposite Sandra Bullock, Anne Hathaway, Sarah Paulson, Mindy Kaling, Helena Bonham Carter, Rihanna and Awkwafina.[][][] The film garnered mainly mixed reviews but was a box office success, earning over $&#;million worldwide.[] She also portrayed Florence Zimmerman in the film adaptation of The House with a Clock in Its Walls directed by Eli Roth[] and narrated Shannon Ashlyn's award-winning Australian historical fantasy film Sweet Tooth.[] Blanchett was appointed the president of the jury of the 71st Cannes Film Festival, which took place in May [] That year, Forbes listed her as one of world's highest-paid actresses with annual earnings of $&#;million.[]
Blanchett portrayed a female version of the python Kaa in Andy Serkis' adaptation of The Jungle Book titled Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle ().
Serkis utilised a mixture of motion capture, CG animation and live-action in the film, and the role of Kaa was written to be much closer to the original character in the short stories by the author Rudyard Kipling, which is as a mentor-like figure for Mowgli.[] The film was released on Netflix in [] In the same year, Blanchett starred in Where'd You Go, Bernadette, an adaptation of the best-selling book of the same name, which was directed by Richard Linklater.[] The film received mostly mixed reviews and made $&#;million at the box office against a budget of $18&#;million,[][] but Blanchett's performance as the titular character received praise, with Pete Hammond writing in his review for Deadline, "[The film] doesn't quite measure up to expectations, despite a game performance from the incandescent Cate Blanchett, who clearly is the best reason to see this movie."[] She received her tenth Golden Globe nomination for her performance in the film.[] Also that year, she reprised her role as Valka in How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, which was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 92nd Academy Awards.[][]
In , Blanchett's Dirty Films production company was signed with New Republic Pictures for feature films and FX Networks for television.[][] Blanchett returned to television by starring in two miniseries.
She played a supporting role in the Australian drama series Stateless, inspired by the controversial mandatory detention case of Cornelia Rau. Stateless was funded by Screen Australia and Blanchett also served as co-creator and executive producer for the series.[] It aired on the Australian public broadcaster ABC, and premiered internationally on Netflix.[] Blanchett won two awards at the 10th AACTA Awards for Stateless: Best Guest or Supporting Actress for her performance, and Best Mini-Series for her role as executive producer.[]
Blanchett also headlined and produced the FX/Hulu historical drama miniseries Mrs.
America (), starring as conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly.[] The nine-part series aired to widespread critical acclaim,[][] with James Poniewozik writing in his review for The New York Times, "Her final scene, wordless and devastating, might as well end with Blanchett being handed an Emmy onscreen";[] and Michael Idato for The Sydney Morning Herald proclaiming, "Blanchett's track record speaks for itself, but here something else is happening.
Every time Blanchett's Schlafly glides perfectly into the frame, there is simply nowhere else to look."[] At the 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards, she received nominations for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie and Outstanding Limited Series, as well as nominations for the Golden Globe Award, the Screen Actors Guild Award (both for her performance), and the Television Critics Association Award for Individual Achievement in Drama.[][][][] Blanchett also served as an executive producer on the Greek film Apples (), directed by Christos Nikou.[] The film premiered at the Venice International Film Festival to critical praise,[][] and was selected to be the country's submission to the Academy Awards as their Best Foreign Language Film.[][]
–present: Tár and further acclaim
In , Blanchett starred alongside Bradley Cooper in Guillermo del Toro's film adaptation of Nightmare Alley, which was released to positive reviews[][] and nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.[] She also appeared alongside Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio in Adam McKay's Don't Look Up, an apocalyptic political satire black comedy film for Netflix,[] which also received an Oscar nomination for Best Picture.[] With Nightmare Alley and Don't Look Up's Best Picture Oscar nominations, Blanchett broke the record held by actress Olivia de Havilland of being the female actor with the most credited roles in Best Picture nominees.[]
Blanchett then starred in the film Tár, directed by Todd Field.
Her performance as Lydia Tár, a fictional renowned conductor, received widespread critical acclaim.[]The Hollywood Reporter's David Rooney wrote that Blanchett gives an "astonishing performance — flinty, commandingly self-possessed and ever so slowly splintering under pressure", adding that it "marks yet another career peak for Blanchett – many are likely to argue her greatest".[] For her performance, she won her second Volpi Cup for Best Actress, fourth Golden Globe Award, and fourth BAFTA Award.[][][] She also swept the major critics awards trifecta (NYFCC, LAFCA, NSFC) for the second time and went on to receive her eighth Oscar nomination, tying for the fourth most Oscar-nominated actress.[][] That year, Blanchett also voiced Spazzatura in the Netflix film adaptation Pinocchio, reuniting her with del Toro.[]
In , Blanchett co-starred in the Australian drama film The New Boy,[] and reprised the role of Hela in the season two episode "What If Hela Found the Ten Rings?" of the Marvel series What If?.[] She also co-produced the Apple TV+ science fiction romantic drama film Fingernails.[][] The following year, Blanchett reunited with Eli Roth to portray Lilith in the Borderlands, a live action film adaptation of the video games of the same name.
The film premiered to negative reviews from critics and became a box-office bomb.[] She then headlined the Apple TV+ psychological thriller miniseries Disclaimer, written and directed by Alfonso Cuarón, and co-starring Kevin Kline, Sacha Baron Cohen and Louis Partridge.[] It premiered in October to a mostly positive critical reception.[][]
Blanchett will next produce and star in A Manual for Cleaning Women, based on Lucia Berlin's part collection of short stories.[][]
In July , she joined the short film Marion as an executive producer.[]
Reception
Blanchett is regarded as one of the finest and most versatile actors of her generation.[] She is noted for her ability to play characters from many different walks of life, and for headlining and being an ensemble player in a wide range of film genres and production scales, from low-budget independent films to high-profile blockbusters.[] She has also been praised for her mastery over a wide array of diverse accents, including English, Irish, French, and various regional American accents.[] In a readers' poll by Empire magazine, Blanchett was voted one of the 50 greatest actors of all time.[]
Commenting on her appeal as a screen actor in Vulture, Will Leitch and Tim Grierson stated that her greatest skill was "her ability to combine relatability and elusiveness: She is always completely present and yet just out of grasp.
She has been forever daring, uncompromising and perpetually, resolutely, herself."[] Blanchett's performance in the film Carol was ranked as the 2nd best movie performance of the decade by IndieWire in Writing of her performance in the film, Christian Zilko states, "The greatest performance in a career where almost every role feels like a legitimate contender, Cate Blanchett's take on Carol Aird is a veritable symphony of repressive silence."[]
Blanchett has been cited in the press as being a style icon and has frequently topped lists of the best dressed women in the world.[][][] In , Blanchett was named the third most naturally beautiful woman of all time by a panel of beauty and fashion editors, make-up artists, model agencies and photographers, behind Audrey Hepburn and Liv Tyler.[] She was in Empire's list of the " Sexiest Movie Stars of All-Time" in and [][] In , she was named in The Hollywood Reporter's listing of "Women in Entertainment Power ".[]
In , a portrait of Blanchett and her family painted by McLean Edwards was a finalist for the Art Gallery of New South Wales' Archibald Prize.[] Another portrait of Blanchett was a finalist for the Archibald Prize in [] Blanchett appeared in a series of commemorative postage stamps called Australian Legends in , in recognition of the outstanding contribution made to Australian entertainment and culture.[] In , Madame Tussauds Hollywood unveiled a wax statue of Blanchett draped in a recreation of the yellow Valentino dress she wore to the 77th Academy Awards in [] In , Blanchett was among the "10 inspirational women honored with a larger-than-life bronze sculpture" as part of the Statues for Equality project, which "aims to balance gender representation in public art and honor women's contributions to society".
The bronze statues were unveiled on Women's Equality Day: 26 August on Avenue of the Americas in New York City. Blanchett's statue is "a creation based on a single image from the photoshoot by Matt Jones for Movieline's Hollywood Life magazine."[][]
Activism
Environmental
Blanchett has been a long term proponent of individual and collective action on climate change and other environmental issues.
In , she joined former US Vice-president Al Gore's Climate Project.[][] In , Blanchett became the ambassador for the Australian Conservation Foundation.[][] She was made an honorary life member of the Australian Conservation Foundation in , in recognition of her support for environmental issues.[] At the beginning of , Blanchett lent her support for a carbon tax.[] She received some criticism for this, particularly from conservatives.[][] Blanchett is a patron of the international development charity SolarAid, which works to create a sustainable market for solar lights in Africa.[]
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