Cate Blanchett

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Cate Blanchett at the Berlinale 2020

Catherine "Cate" Élise Blanchett [ 'blænʧɘt ] AC (born May 14, 1969 in Melbourne ) is an Australian - American actress . Since the beginning of the 1990s she has appeared in more than 50 film and television productions. After her award-winning title role in the historical film Elizabeth (1998), she rose to become one of the leading character actresses in Hollywood . She has been honored with over 70 international film and festival awards. For her portrayal of Katharine Hepburn in Martin Scorsese's biopic Aviator (2004) she received the Oscar for best supporting actress and for her role in the Woody Allen film Blue Jasmine (2013) the Oscar for best actress .

In addition, Blanchett also appears as a stage actress. From 2008 to 2015 she and her husband Andrew Upton were artistic directors of the Australian Sydney Theater Company (STC).

life and career

Cate Blanchett at San Diego Comic Con 2017
Cate Blanchett 2018 in Cannes
Cate Blanchett's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (2009)

Blanchett was born the second of three children to a Melbourne teacher and a Texas chief petty officer. Her older brother Bob was born in 1968 and her younger sister Genevieve in 1971. She has English, Scottish and French roots and has both Australian (through her father) citizenship as well as US citizenship. Her father died of a heart attack when she was ten years old. From then on, the mother had to raise the three half-orphans alone.

She first studied economics and art at the University of Melbourne . While on vacation in Egypt , she was recruited for a small role as a dancer in a local film production company. Enthusiastic about this, she returned to her homeland and dropped out of university to begin training as an actress.

Shortly after graduating from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in Sydney , she received awards for her acting work on stage. In 1993 she was the first actress to receive a coveted critics award for best talent as well as best actress in Sydney. Parallel to her theater work, she successfully appeared in Australian television series . Her first feature film was Paradise Road in 1997 , in which she played a prisoner of war alongside Glenn Close and Frances McDormand in a Japanese camp on Sumatra during World War II .

Blanchett had her breakthrough in 1998 with the portrayal of Queen Elizabeth I of England in the film Elizabeth , for which she received a Golden Globe , the first Oscar nomination and the London Critics Circle Film Award for best actress. She starred in Tom Tykwer's Heaven in 2001 , took on the role of Elven ruler Galadriel in the film adaptations of The Lord of the Rings in the same year and received awards for the title roles in The Love of Charlotte Gray (2001) and The Journalist (2003). In 2004 she played Katharine Hepburn in Aviator , directed by Martin Scorsese ; she was nominated for a Golden Globe for this performance and won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress .

In the spring of 2006, Blanchett, previously only known as a film actress, made her successful stage debut as Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler with the Sydney Theater Company at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in the United States .

Also in 2006, she appeared in Babel, directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and critically acclaimed as a masterpiece and awarded a Golden Globe for best film, as Brad Pitt's wife, injured by a stray bullet in the loneliness of the Moroccan mountains . In the same year she played "a perfect femme fatale " on the side of George Clooney in Steven Soderbergh's The Good German . And finally, in 2006, she herself received a Golden Globe and Oscar nomination as a supporting actress for her role in the psychodrama Diary of a Scandal . Blanchett and Judi Dench , who was also nominated for a Golden Globe and an Oscar in the leading role, offer a “captivating interplay” as teachers, whose initially friendly relationship turns into a bitter argument.

In 2007, Blanchett directed the film Elizabeth , the sequel to Elizabeth , with Clive Owen and Geoffrey Rush . Director Shekhar Kapur's drama was released in German cinemas on December 20, 2007. In the same year she was honored with the Coppa Volpi , the actor's award at the 64th Venice Film Festival , for her portrayal of Bob Dylan in Todd Haynes ' biography I'm Not There . For this role, she was also awarded the 2008 Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress.

Blanchett was on 22 January 2008 for her starring role in Elizabeth - The Golden Age for best actress and for her supporting role in I'm Not There Best Supporting Actress respectively for the Oscar nominated. She is one of the few actresses who have been nominated twice for an Oscar in one year. That same day, Heath Ledger , at whose funeral she gave the eulogy, died.

In 2008 she played the Russian agent Irina Spalko in Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. In the same year she starred in David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button alongside Brad Pitt. She received a Broadcast Film Critics Association nomination for portraying Daisy . In 2009 she took on the role of Maid Marian in Robin Hood , directed by Ridley Scott, opposite Russell Crowe .

In December 2008, Blanchett was honored with a star on the Walk of Fame . It is the 2376th star that is right outside Grauman's Egyptian Theater on Hollywood Boulevard . That year she and her husband Andrew Upton took over the artistic direction of the Sydney Theater Company (STC). Since then she has made fewer films, in which she mostly played smaller roles. For productions at the STC, Blanchett u. a. Liv Ullmann , Steven Soderbergh and Philip Seymour Hoffman win. She led the theater out of the red and extended her contract until 2013. In 2012, she went on tour as Lotte in Botho Strauss ' Big and Small , and performed with it. a. in London as well as at the Wiener Festwochen and the Ruhrfestspiele in Recklinghausen .

In 2012, Blanchett took on the role of Elf ruler Galadriel again in the Hobbit films , which she already embodied in the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

In 2013, in Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine , Blanchett played a blasé in New York high society whose life goes upside down when her husband is sentenced to jail for stock market fraud. For this role, she was awarded the Oscar for best leading actress in March 2014.

In 2018 she was selected as the jury president of the 71st Cannes International Film Festival .

In 2020 Blanchett produced the Australian miniseries Stateless , in which she can be seen in a supporting role. The series is based on the true stories of flight attendant Cornelia Rau, who revealed abuses in Australian asylum policy. With this, Blanchett drew attention to the Australian refugee policy. In Australia, the first broadcast took place on March 1, 2020 on ABC . The series was released worldwide on July 8, 2020 on Netflix .

Blanchett is the patron of the international non-governmental organization SolarAid . Her German dubbing comes mainly from Elisabeth Günther or Arianne Borbach . In the role of Galadriel Dörte Lyssewski could be heard in the form of typecasting .

Private life

Cate Blanchett has been married to the Australian screenwriter Andrew Upton (* 1966) since 1997 ; together they have three sons (* 2001, 2004 and 2008) and an adopted daughter (* 2015). The family lived for several years in English Brighton before moving back to the old native Australia in 2007 and finally there in a suburb of Sydney settled.

Filmography (selection)

Cate Blanchett (2011)

Awards and nominations (selection)

Cate Blanchett (2012)

Oscar

Golden Globe

  • 1999: Best Actress / Drama - Elizabeth
  • 2002: Best Actress / Comedy or Musical - Bandits! (Nomination)
  • 2004: Best Actress / Drama - Die Journalistin (nomination)
  • 2005: Best Supporting Actress - Aviator (nomination)
  • 2007: Best Supporting Actress - Diary of a Scandal (Nomination)
  • 2008: Best Actress / Drama - Elizabeth - The Golden Kingdom (nomination)
  • 2008: Best Supporting Actress - I'm Not There
  • 2014: Best Actress / Drama - Blue Jasmine
  • 2016: Best Actress / Drama - Carol (nomination)
  • 2020: Best Actress / Comedy or Musical - Bernadette (nomination)

British Academy Film Award

  • 1999: Best Actress - Elizabeth
  • 2000: Best Supporting Actress - The Talented Mr. Ripley (nomination)
  • 2005: Best Supporting Actress - Aviator
  • 2008: Best Actress - Elizabeth - The Golden Kingdom (Nomination)
  • 2008: Best Supporting Actress - I'm Not There (nomination)
  • 2014: Best Actress - Blue Jasmine
  • 2016: Best Actress - Carol (nomination)

Screen Actors Guild Award

  • 1999: Best Actress - Elizabeth (nomination)
  • 2002: Best Supporting Actress - Bandits! (Nomination)
  • 2004: Best Acting Company - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
  • 2005: Best Supporting Actress - Aviator
  • 2007: Best Supporting Actress - Diary of a Scandal (Nomination)
  • 2008: Best Actress - Elizabeth - The Golden Kingdom (Nomination)
  • 2008: Best Supporting Actress - I'm Not There
  • 2014: Best Actress - Blue Jasmine
  • 2016: Best Actress - Carol (nomination)

Empire Award

  • 1999: Best Newcomer - Elizabeth (nomination)
  • 1999: Best Actress - Elizabeth
  • 2003: Best Actress - Die Journalistin (nomination)
  • 2007: Best Actress - Elizabeth - The Golden Kingdom (Nomination)

Chlotrudis Award

  • 1999: Best Actress - Elizabeth
  • 2000: Best Supporting Actress - A Perfect Husband (nomination)
  • 2005: Best Supporting Actress - Coffee and Cigarettes (nomination)
  • 2008: Best Supporting Actress - I'm Not There

National Board of Review Award

  • 2001: Best Supporting Actress - In Stormy Times; The Lord of the Rings: The Companions; Ship reports

New York Film Critics Circle Award

  • 2013: Best Actress - Blue Jasmine

Satellite Award

  • 1998: Best Actress / Drama - Elizabeth
  • 1999: Best Supporting Actress / Comedy or Musical - A Perfect Husband (nomination)
  • 2001: Best Actress / Drama - The Love of Charlotte Gray (Nomination)
  • 2004: Best Supporting Actress / Drama - Aviator (nomination)
  • 2006: Best Supporting Actress - Diary of a Scandal (nomination)
  • 2007: Best Actress / Comedy or Musical - I'm Not There (nomination)
  • 2015: Best Actress - Carol (nomination)

Critics' Choice Movie Award

  • 1998: Best Actress - Elizabeth
  • 2004: Best Supporting Actress - Aviator (nomination)
  • 2006: Best Supporting Actress - Diary of a Scandal (nomination)
  • 2007: Best Supporting Actress - I'm Not There (nomination)
  • 2007: Best Actress - Elizabeth - The Golden Kingdom (Nomination)
  • 2008: Best Actress - The Strange Case of Benjamin Button (nomination)
  • 2014: Best Actress - Blue Jasmine
  • 2016: Best Actress - Carol (nomination)

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cate Blanchett on boxofficemojo.com .
  2. ↑ Cate Blanchett Was Briefly Mistaken For Kate Upton .
  3. ↑ Cate Blanchett on madness, motherhood and working with Woody Allen, The Herald, 09/21/2013
  4. ↑ Cate Blanchett's Surprising Spy History, Ancestry, March 16, 2015
  5. ^ Deutschlandfunk : Review of Cate Blanchett's New York appearance as Hedda Gabler , March 15, 2006
  6. ↑ James Berardinelli : "Babel"
  7. ↑ James Berardinelli : "The Good German"
  8. ↑ Variety : Review "Notes on a Scandal" ( Memento of October 22, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) , December 18, 2006
  9. ↑ movie-infos.net: Elizabeth: The Golden Age - Second trailer released , June 27, 2007
  10. ↑ A bouquet for Lotte. In: Der Standard , May 4, 2012, p. 4
  11. ↑ Kino.de , December 9, 2009
  12. ↑ Wolfgang Höbel: Woody Allen's 'Blue Jasmine': Queen Cate in free fall on Spiegel Online on November 6, 2013
  13. ↑ The winners at a glance: These are the 2014 Oscar winners on Spiegel Online on March 3, 2014
  14. ↑ Netflix series: And you sit in Europe sueddeutsche.de, accessed on July 18, 2020
  15. ↑ 'Stateless' on Netflix: A Series That Hurts. ndr.de, accessed on July 18, 2020
  16. ↑ Michael Rothmann: Cate Blanchett and Husband Andrew Upton Adopt a Baby Girl on Good Morning America / ABC News on March 6, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Blanchett, Cate
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blanchett, Catherine Elise (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian film actress
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Melbourne , Australia