Cate Blanchett

Catherine Élise Blanchett (born the May 14th 1969 with Melbourne, Victoria, Australia), is an Australian actress of origin free - American (father texan of origin Cajun).

Biography

Australian actor, Cate intends for the beginning with the study arts and economy before deciding with theatrical studies which off push it in Australia' S National Institute Dramatic Art, of which it arises graduate in 1992. Beginning a small career from actress, between the theater and the television, which enables him to build a small notoriety in Australia. It is tested with the cinema with the drama Thank God He Puts Lizzie (1997), vis-a-vis Richard Roxburgh before turning under the direction of Gillian Armstrong in the drama Oscar and Lucinda (1997) in which it gives the counterpart to Ralph Fiennes.

But it is for its service in the drama Paradise Road (1998) of Bruce Beresford vis-a-vis Glenn Close and Frances McDormand and in the biographical drama Elizabeth (1998) of Shekhar Kapur that Cate reaches the dedication. For the role of the queen Elisabeth I {{Re}}, which she camps with a talent and a rare intensity, she obtains the Golden Globe of the best dramatic actress as well as a nomination with the Oscar of the best actress. She then gives the counterpart to John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton and Angelina Jolie in the comedy the Pointsmen (2000) before côtoyer Jude Law, Matt Damon and Gwyneth Paltrow in Talented Mr. Ripley (2000) of Anthony Minghella and to play the part of a professional singer in the large heart in the independent drama The Man who cried (2001) vis-a-vis Christina Ricci and Johnny Depp.

She then obtains her larger success in the fantastic trilogy of Peter Jackson, the Lord of the Rings (2001, 2002 and 2003) in which she interprets the elf Galadriel of Tolkien. Testing itself with all the kinds, she plays a clairvoyant medium in the thriller Intuitions (2000) of Sam Raimi, a woman loving a man younger than she in the romantic drama Heaven (2002), an eccentric woman initiated with the banditism by Bruce Willis and Billy Bob Thornton in the comedy Bandits (2001) before camping the dead wife of Kevin Spacey in the drama New Ground (2002), of Lasse Hallström. Magnet to camp of the women with stings as in the western Disappeared the (2003) vis-a-vis Tommy Lee Jones, it is in addition seen entrusting characters having really existed like the journalist Irish Veronica Guerin in the drama éponyme of Joel Schumacher (2003) and the actress Katharine Hepburn in the fresco Aviator (2004) of Martin Scorsese, which is worth the recognition of its pars to him since it obtains in 2005 the Oscar of the best actress in a supporting role.

Actress having a great direction of eclecticism, it privileges the directors of qualities, it turns under the direction of Alejandro González Inárritu in its cosmopolitan drama Babel (2006) with Brad Pitt, of Steven Soderbergh in The Good German (2007) or of Richard Eyre in the vicious Chronique of a scandal (id.) in which it camps a professor paedophile handled by masterly the Judi Dench. Performance which nominates it with the Oscars 2007, female best supporting role. The beautiful one however does not neglect its family life since she is married since 1997 with Andrew Upton and which she has two children.

Catalog of films

Rewards

Crowned of a Oscar in 2005 for its interpretation of Katharine Hepburn, in Aviator . It had already been nominated in 1999 for its role of the queen Elisabeth I {{Re}}, role for which it turns the continuation (left in 2007). It moreover received the Coupe Volpi for the best female role with the 64ème Mostra of Venice for its role in " I' m not there" of Todd Haynes, in which she interprets the role of a Bob Dylan androgyne.

Nominations

Laure Sabardin

Anecdotes

Cate Blanchett is the mother of two children. She flees the society life and kept her secret address a long time to preserve her private life.

External bond

Simple: Cate Blanchett

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