Cate Blanchett
Cate Blanchett once played thirteen different characters in a single artwork. The piece was Manifesto, a multi-screen video installation by Julian Rosefeldt. Twelve artist manifestos are performed in it, and every voice belongs to her. Roberta Smith of The New York Times wrote that if the art world handed out Oscars, Blanchett would deserve one for it.
Blanchett is an Australian actor and producer, and that installation is a fair sample of her reputation. She is regarded as one of the best performers of her generation. Her work runs across independent films, enormous blockbusters and more than twenty stage productions.
A career like that raises questions. How does anyone build range wide enough to move between a gallery installation and a fantasy epic? Which of her roles did the film world reward most, and what do the records say about her? What does a performer do with influence once she has it? And who is she when the cameras are off? The chapters ahead take those questions one at a time.
Catherine Élise Blanchett was born on the 14th of May 1969 in Ivanhoe, a suburb of Melbourne. Her mother, June, was Australian, a property developer and a teacher. Her father, Robert DeWitt Blanchett Jr., was a Texan and a United States Navy chief petty officer who later became an advertising executive. They met when his ship broke down in Melbourne.
When Blanchett was ten, her father died of a heart attack, and her mother raised the family. She was the second of three children, with an older brother and a younger sister. Her ancestry includes English, some Scottish and remote French roots.
She has called her childhood self "part extrovert, part wallflower". As a teenager she liked dressing in traditionally masculine clothing and passed through goth and punk phases. At one point she shaved her head. She attended Ivanhoe East Primary School, then Ivanhoe Girls' Grammar School. Methodist Ladies' College came next, and there she explored her passion for the performing arts.
In her late teens and early twenties, Blanchett worked at a nursing home in Victoria. After school she began a Bachelor of business administration at the University of Melbourne. Then, while she was in Egypt, she was asked to be an extra, playing an American cheerleader in a boxing film called Kaboria, from 1990. She needed money, so she accepted.
Back in Australia, she moved to Sydney and enrolled at the National Institute of Dramatic Art, known as NIDA. She graduated in 1992 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. The same year, her professional stage career began with David Mamet's play Oleanna at the Sydney Theatre Company, opposite Geoffrey Rush.
Sophocles' Electra, also in 1992, had Blanchett cast as Clytemnestra. A couple of weeks after rehearsals began, the actress playing the title role pulled out. The director, Lindy Davies, gave Blanchett the part of Electra instead. Her Electra became one of her most acclaimed performances at NIDA.
In 1993, the Sydney Theatre Critics gave her two awards. She won Best Newcomer for Timothy Daly's Kafka Dances and Best Actress for Oleanna. That made her the first actor to win both categories in the same year. Neil Armfield then directed a Company B production of Hamlet in 1994-1995, starring Rush and Richard Roxburgh. Blanchett played Ophelia and earned a Green Room Award nomination.
Her first screen appearance came in 1994, in the miniseries Heartland opposite Ernie Dingo. In 1995 she joined Hugo Weaving in the miniseries Bordertown, and she appeared in a Police Rescue episode called "The Loaded Boy". In 1996 came Parklands, a 50-minute drama short that earned an Australian Film Institute nomination for Best Original Screenplay. By 1997 she would be on the set of a Bruce Beresford feature.
Paradise Road, released in 1997, was Blanchett's feature film debut. She had a supporting role as an Australian nurse captured by the Japanese Army in the Second World War, alongside Glenn Close and Frances McDormand. The film made just over $2 million on a $19 million budget, and reviews were mixed.
Her first leading role came later in 1997. In Gillian Armstrong's Oscar and Lucinda, she played the eccentric heiress Lucinda Leplastrier opposite Ralph Fiennes. Emanuel Levy of Variety wrote that the "luminous newcomer Blanchett, in a role originally intended for Judy Davis, is bound to become a major star". The part earned her first Australian Film Institute nomination for Best Leading Actress. She won the institute's Best Actress Award that year for the romantic comedy Thank God He Met Lizzie, where she played Lizzie.
Then came Elizabeth, directed by Shekhar Kapur. Blanchett played the young Elizabeth I in the 1998 historical drama, and the film catapulted her to international prominence. It won her the Golden Globe and the BAFTA, and it brought her first Actor Award nomination and her first Academy Award nomination.
David Rooney of Variety saw a performance that built Elizabeth almost imperceptibly. In his reading, she grew from a smart but wary young woman into "a powerful creature of her own invention". Alicia Potter of the Boston Phoenix called the film a tale of twin transformations. One was Elizabeth becoming a powerful ruler. The other was Blanchett becoming, in Potter's words, "a bona fide screen queen".
The year 1999 gave her three more screen credits. In Mike Newell's comedy Pushing Tin, critics singled out her performance. The Talented Mr. Ripley paired her with Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law and Philip Seymour Hoffman. As the socialite Meredith Logue, she received her second BAFTA nomination. The third credit was Bangers, an Australian short film written and directed by her husband, Andrew Upton, and produced by the two of them.
The Lord of the Rings trilogy earned $2.981 billion at the worldwide box office. Blanchett played the elf leader Galadriel in all three of Peter Jackson's films. In a 2012 poll by the magazine Wired, all three ranked among the top 10 greatest fantasy movies of all time. The third film won 11 Oscars, including Best Picture.
Galadriel does not appear in J.R.R. Tolkien's original novel of The Hobbit. Co-writer Guillermo del Toro and Jackson amended the story so that Blanchett could join the prequel trilogy. The Hobbit films, shot in New Zealand, ran from 2012 to 2014. They earned nearly $3 billion worldwide, though critics rated them below the earlier trilogy.
In 2001, between the Rings films, the crime comedy Bandits marked her first notable move into comedy. It brought a second Golden Globe nomination and a second Actor Award nomination. Ben Falk of the BBC called her and Billy Bob Thornton "a real find as comedians".
In 2002 she starred in Heaven, directed by Tom Tykwer, as a grieving woman who commits a desperate act of terrorism. It was the first film in an unfinished trilogy by Krzysztof Kieślowski. Stephen Holden of The New York Times called it "the most compelling screen performance of her career".
Jim Jarmusch's Coffee and Cigarettes, in 2003, had her play two roles, both opposite herself. It earned an Independent Spirit Award nomination. In 2007 she took an uncredited cameo as the forensic scientist Janine in Edgar Wright's Hot Fuzz, and she gave her fee to charity.
In Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008), she played the KGB agent Col. Dr. Irina Spalko. Reviews were mixed, yet the film grossed over $790 million worldwide. In Thor: Ragnarok (2017), she played the goddess of death, Hela, and the film earned $854 million.
Disney's Cinderella (2015), directed by Kenneth Branagh, cast her as Lady Tremaine. Richard Corliss of Time praised her for "radiating a hauteur that chills as it amuses". Ocean's 8 (2018), directed by Gary Ross, put her beside Sandra Bullock, Anne Hathaway, Sarah Paulson, Mindy Kaling, Helena Bonham Carter, Rihanna and Awkwafina. It earned over $297 million.
For the English version of Hayao Miyazaki's Ponyo, released in July 2008, she voiced Granmamare. On the 29th of April 2012, a Family Guy episode featured her as Penelope. In 2014 she voiced Valka in How to Train Your Dragon 2. That film won the Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature and was nominated for an Oscar. She returned for The Hidden World, nominated at the 92nd Academy Awards.
In Andy Serkis's Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle (2018), she was a female version of the python Kaa. Serkis mixed motion capture, CG animation and live action. The role was written closer to Rudyard Kipling's short stories. Netflix released the film in 2019.
Borderlands (2024), in which she played Lilith, premiered to negative reviews and became a box-office bomb. Where'd You Go, Bernadette (2019) made $10.4 million against an $18 million budget. Pete Hammond of Deadline still called her "incandescent". As of 2019, her films had grossed over $9.8 billion worldwide. The Academy, though, honoured her for other kinds of parts.
Martin Scorsese asked Blanchett to watch 35-millimeter prints of Katharine Hepburn's first fifteen screen performances. She studied them to memorize Hepburn's poise, mannerisms and speech pattern. Of the task, she said that "we basically know Hepburn through her films". The result, in The Aviator (2004), won Blanchett her first Academy Award, for Best Supporting Actress, in 2005.
No actor before her had won an Oscar for portraying another Oscar-winning actor. Roger Ebert called the performance "delightful and yet touching; mannered and tomboyish". She lent her statuette to the Australian Centre for the Moving Image.
Notes on a Scandal (2006) brought her third nomination. She played a lonely teacher who begins an affair with a 15-year-old student. That makes her the object of obsession for an older woman, played by Dame Judi Dench. Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian praised the tensions and the tenderness that director Richard Eyre drew from the two actors.
At the 80th Academy Awards, she received two nominations. One was for Elizabeth: The Golden Age, the sequel to her breakthrough. The other was for I'm Not There, where Todd Haynes cast her as Jude Quinn, one of six incarnations of Bob Dylan. That performance won the Volpi Cup at Venice, the Independent Spirit Award and the Golden Globe. She became the first actress nominated a second time for reprising a role.
Roger Ebert marvelled that she could play Elizabeth and Bob Dylan, both splendidly, at one Toronto festival. He called it "a wonder of acting".
In 2013 she played Jasmine Francis in Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine, with Alec Baldwin and Sally Hawkins. Mark Kermode of The Guardian compared her to a runner facing a marathon of emotional road pounding. Peter Travers of Rolling Stone called the performance "miraculous". It won her more than 40 industry and critics' awards, including the Academy Award for Best Actress.
That win made her the sixth actress to win in both acting categories. She was 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 criticized 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."
Carol (2015) reunited her with Todd Haynes. Based on Patricia Highsmith's The Price of Salt, it also starred Rooney Mara, and Blanchett was an executive producer. She earned Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations. In 2019 IndieWire ranked her performance the second best movie performance of the decade.
Tár (2022), directed by Todd Field, cast her as Lydia Tár, a fictional renowned conductor. David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter called it "astonishing". She won her second Volpi Cup, her fourth Golden Globe and her fourth BAFTA. She swept the three major critics awards for the second time. Her eighth Oscar nomination tied her for the fourth most Oscar-nominated actress.
Nightmare Alley and Don't Look Up, both from 2021, each earned a Best Picture nomination, and she acted in both. That made her the female actor with the most credited roles in Best Picture nominees, breaking a record held by Olivia de Havilland. Eight nominations make her the most-nominated Australian.
In 2008, Blanchett and her husband Andrew Upton became co-CEOs and artistic directors of the Sydney Theatre Company. They held the posts through the 2013 season, which was her last. Blanchett returned to acting in the theatre in 2009 with A Streetcar Named Desire, directed by Liv Ullmann.
Blanchett played Blanche DuBois, with Joel Edgerton as Stanley Kowalski. She and Ullmann had been meaning to collaborate since Ullmann's planned film of A Doll's House fell by the wayside. Blanchett proposed Streetcar, and Ullmann jumped at it. The production travelled from Sydney to the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York and the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
John Lahr of The New Yorker wrote, "I don't expect to see a better performance of this role in my lifetime." Jane Fonda called it "perhaps the greatest stage performance I have ever seen". Blanchett won the Sydney Theatre Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. She and the production also received Helen Hayes Awards.
In 2011, she played Lotte Kotte in Big and Small, Martin Crimp's translation of Botho Strauß's 1978 play Groß und klein. Benedict Andrews directed. After Sydney, it travelled to London, Paris, the Vienna Festival and Ruhrfestspiele. She won the Helpmann Award for Best Actress and was nominated for an Evening Standard Theatre Award.
That year she also played Yelena in Uncle Vanya, with Hugo Weaving and Richard Roxburgh, in Upton's adaptation of Chekhov. It went to the Kennedy Center and the New York City Center. Ben Brantley of The New York Times described its three hours as "among the happiest of my theatregoing life". Peter Marks of The Washington Post named it the top theatrical event of 2011 in Washington, D.C.
From 2008 to 2011, the company also ran an environmental program called Greening the Wharf. It invested in solar energy, rainwater harvesting, energy efficiency and waste management. The program won a Green Globe Award, which Blanchett and Upton accepted.
The Present, Upton's adaptation of Chekhov's Platonov, directed by John Crowley, opened in Sydney in 2015. It moved to Broadway in 2017, marking Blanchett's Broadway debut. Brantley wrote that she "knows how to hold a stage and, if necessary, hijack it". She received a Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Play, a Drama Desk Award nomination and a Drama League Award nomination.
In March and April 2025, she starred in a reimagining of Chekhov's The Seagull at the Barbican in London. Tom Burke, Emma Corrin and Kodi Smit-McPhee were her co-stars. She was announced for Benedict Andrews' new play Electra/Persona at the Royal National Theatre, from August to October 2026.
Her production company, Dirty Films, shaped her screen career as well. Little Fish (2005) was co-produced by the company, which belongs to Blanchett and her husband. She played Tracy Heart, a former heroin addict, and won the Australian Film Institute Best Actress Award. The film was nominated for 13 institute awards. Producing credits since include Truth, Carol, Apples, Fingernails and the short film Marion.
In 2020, she headlined and produced Mrs. America as the conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly. James Poniewozik of The New York Times wrote that her final scene was "wordless and devastating". The nine-part series earned Emmy nominations for her performance and for the series itself. Disclaimer, in 2024, brought another Emmy nomination.
Dirty Films signed with New Republic Pictures for features and FX Networks for television in 2020. In February 2026 it signed a first-look deal with Searchlight Pictures. Next on her slate is A Manual for Cleaning Women, based on Lucia Berlin's 43-part collection of short stories, which Blanchett will produce and star in.
In May 2016, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees announced Blanchett as a global Goodwill Ambassador. She had worked with the agency since 2015. Her missions took her to Jordan in 2015, Lebanon in 2016 and Bangladesh in 2018, to meet Syrian and Rohingya refugees.
In January 2018, the World Economic Forum gave her its Crystal Award for her advocacy for refugees and displaced people. In August 2018, she addressed the United Nations Security Council about atrocities committed against the Rohingya people in Myanmar. She also featured in a UNHCR video called "What They Took With Them". In it, actors read a poem by Jenifer Toksvig.
The miniseries Stateless grew out of that work. It follows four strangers whose lives collide at an immigration detention centre in Australia, and it was inspired by the case of Cornelia Rau. Blanchett co-created it, served as executive producer and played a supporting role. She said its aim was to "build empathy and understanding for refugees". At the 10th AACTA Awards it won her two prizes. It premiered on Netflix in July 2020.
In 2006, Blanchett joined former US Vice-president Al Gore's Climate Project. In 2007 she became ambassador for the Australian Conservation Foundation, which made her an honorary life member in 2012. At the start of 2011 she supported a carbon tax, drawing criticism, particularly from conservatives. She is also a patron of SolarAid, which works to create a sustainable market for solar lights in Africa.
In January 2014, she took part in the Green Carpet Challenge, founded by Livia Firth of Eco-Age. In September 2020, as president of the jury at the 77th Venice International Film Festival, she promised to wear only outfits she had worn before. In October 2020, Prince William appointed her to the council of the Earthshot Prize.
In May 2020, she joined other celebrities reading James and the Giant Peach for the charity Partners In Health. That year she also contributed an essay to Upturn: A Better Normal After COVID-19. In September 2020, she joined Helen Mirren, Eddie Redmayne and Salman Rushdie. They backed student protests in Budapest at the University for Theater and Film Arts. She later signed a letter from Artists4Ceasefire urging President Joe Biden to call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
The ecohouse that Blanchett and Upton are building at Mawgan Porth in Cornwall has drawn controversy. It stands on the site of a stone cottage they bought for £1.6 million and then demolished. Noise from construction was alleged to have "destroyed the family holidays" of some people in 2023. The architects denied that anyone was inconvenienced.
In 2022, she and Danny Kennedy launched the Climate of Change podcast on Audible. In 2024 she became ambassador of Wakehurst, a nature reserve in England. The next year she hosted a series of Unearthed: The Need for Seeds. That Royal Botanic Gardens Kew podcast covers the history of the Millennium Seed Bank.
Blanchett and Andrew Upton married on the 21st of June 1997, after meeting in Australia in the mid-1990s. They have three sons and a daughter, who was adopted in 2015. For nearly 10 years, their main home was in Brighton, England. In 2006 they returned to Australia to settle the children and be near family.
In 2007 they renovated their Hunters Hill home in Sydney to be more eco-friendly. After selling it in 2015, they moved back to England and bought a house in Crowborough, East Sussex, in early 2016.
In 2005, she became the face of the skin care brand SK-II. In 2013 she became a brand ambassador for Giorgio Armani fragrances and was paid $10 million. In 2018 Armani named her its first beauty ambassador. Louis Vuitton announced her as house ambassador in 2022. Forbes listed her among the world's highest-paid actresses in 2018, with annual earnings of $12.5 million.
A portrait of Blanchett and her family by McLean Edwards was a finalist for the Archibald Prize in 2006. Another portrait reached the finals in 2014. In 2009 she appeared in a series of commemorative postage stamps called Australian Legends. In 2015, Madame Tussauds Hollywood unveiled a wax statue of her in a recreation of the yellow Valentino dress she wore to the 77th Academy Awards.
On the 26th of August 2019, a bronze statue of Blanchett was unveiled on Avenue of the Americas in New York City, as part of Statues for Equality. It was based on a single image from a 2003 photoshoot by Matt Jones.
The Australian government gave her the Centenary Medal in 2001, and she was made a Companion of the Order of Australia in 2017. France named her Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters in 2012. In 2008 she received a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6712 Hollywood Boulevard. In 2015 the British Film Institute Fellowship was presented to her by Ian McKellen.
Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2007. In a 2022 Empire readers' poll, she ranked among the 50 greatest actors of all time. Will Leitch and Tim Grierson of Vulture praised her "ability to combine relatability and elusiveness". She is also praised for mastering accents, including English, Irish, French and various regional American ones.
Blanchett has pointed to Joan Crawford and Bette Davis, who worked well into their 50s because they were lit and made into goddesses. "Honestly, I think about my appearance less than I did ten years ago," she said. At the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival, she received the Share Her Journey Groundbreaker Award. It goes to women who have improved conditions for women in the film industry.
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Which Oscars has Cate Blanchett won?
She won Best Supporting Actress for playing Katharine Hepburn in The Aviator, honoured in 2005, and Best Actress for Blue Jasmine at the 86th Academy Awards.
Why is her Oscar for The Aviator unusual?
She was the first actor in history to win an Academy Award for portraying another Academy Award-winning actor.
Is Galadriel in Tolkien's original novel of The Hobbit?
No. Co-writer Guillermo del Toro and director Peter Jackson amended the story so that Blanchett could appear in the film trilogy.
Which theatre company did Blanchett help run?
She and her husband Andrew Upton were co-CEOs and artistic directors of the Sydney Theatre Company from 2008 to 2013.
What is her work with refugees?
She has worked with the UNHCR since 2015 and became a global Goodwill Ambassador in May 2016. She also co-created the miniseries Stateless.
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- 172Cate Blanchett in Talks to Star in 'Where'd You Go, Bernadette?' AdaptationBorys Kit — 12 November 2015
- 174'Spider-Man: Far From Home' Hooks $185M 6-Day Opening Records For Sony & Independence Day Stretch – Sunday FinalAnthony D'Alessandro — 7 July 2019
- 175'Where'd You Go, Bernadette' Review: Cate Blanchett Rises Above A Quirky But Uneven Adaptation Of Best SellerPete Hammond — 16 August 2019
- 176NewsGolden Globes 2020: The Complete Nominations List3 January 2020
- 177How to Train Your Dragon 3 Release Date Pushed to 20195 December 2016
- 178Oscar Nominations: 'Joker' Tops List With 11 Noms; '1917', 'Irishman', 'Hollywood' Nab 10 ApiecePatrick Hipes — 13 January 2020
- 179Cate Blanchett Signs First-Look Production Deal With New RepublicDave McNary — 30 June 2020
- 180Cate Blanchett & Her Dirty Films Banner Ink First-Look TV Deal at FXghermanns — 10 July 2020
- 182Netflix Swoops in for Global Rights to Cate Blanchett Refugee Drama 'Stateless' (Exclusive)Manori Ravindran — 24 February 2020
- 184Cate Blanchett to Grace American Television With FX Series Mrs. AmericaJordan Crucchiola — 30 October 2018
- 185FX Sets Premiere Dates For 'Fargo', 'Mrs. America', 'Better Things', 'Devs', 'Archer' & More – TCADenise Petski — 9 January 2020
- 186Mrs. America
- 187News'Mrs. America' Review: The Voice of an E.R.A.James Poniewozik — 14 April 2020
- 188NewsChallenged, confused, charmed? Expect it all from Cate Blanchett's Mrs AmericaMichael Idato — 1 May 2020
- 190Golden Globes 2021: The Complete Nominations ListNatalie & Jordan Oganesyan & Moreau — 3 February 2021
- 191SAG Awards Nominations: 'Ma Rainey', 'Minari' Lead Film List; 'The Crown', 'Schitt's Creek' Top TV And 'Bridgerton' Arrives – Full ListPatrick Hipes — 4 February 2021
- 192'Watchmen', 'Unbelievable' Lead TCA Award Nominations With Four Apiece; HBO Tops With 16 Overall NomsDade Hayes — 9 July 2020
- 193Cate Blanchett And Her Dirty Films Team Board As Exec Producers Of Venice Premiere Pic 'Apples'Mike Jr. Fleming — 12 October 2020
- 196Mila (Apples)15 July 2020
- 197Greece Selects Venice Horizons Opener 'Apples' for International Feature Film Oscar RaceChristopher Vourlias — 4 November 2020
- 198NewsRooney Mara Joins Guillermo Del Toro's 'Nightmare Alley' At Fox Searchlight4 September 2019
- 199Searchlight Sets Guillermo del Toro's 'Nightmare Alley' for December, 'French Dispatch' Still UndatedZack Sharf — 21 January 2021
- 201Exclusive: Cate Blanchett to Join Jennifer Lawrence in Adam McKay's Netflix MovieJeff Sneider — 11 May 2020
- 203Oscar Nominations 2022 List: Nominees by CategoryABC — 8 February 2022
- 204Oscars: Kenneth Branagh, Will Smith, Ariana DeBose and More Stars Who Made History With 2022 NominationsLexy Perez et al. — 8 February 2022
- 205Cate Blanchett's 'Tár' Earns Ecstatic 6-Minute Standing Ovation in Venice, Generating Instant Oscar BuzzRamin Setoodeh et al. — September 2022
- 206Tár Review: Cate Blanchett Astounds in Todd Field's Blistering Character StudyDavid Rooney — 1 September 2022
- 210Cate Blanchett, Ke Huy Quan and 'Tár' Win National Society of Film Critics, Completing Rare Major Critics Awards TrifectaClayton Davis — 7 January 2023
- 21135 Most Oscar-Nominated Actors and ActressesDessi Gomez — 10 March 2023
- 212Cate Blanchett, Ewan McGregor, Tilda Swinton & More Round Out Cast For Guillermo del Toro Netflix 'Pinocchio' MovieAnthony D'Alessandro — 19 August 2020
- 213Cate Blanchett To Star In 'The New Boy'; Her Dirty Films Will Co-Produce With Scarlett PicturesJustin Kroll — 10 February 2022
- 217Cate Blanchett to Officially Star in Eli Roth's BorderlandsDave McNary — 28 May 2020
- 218Cate Blanchett, Kevin Kline to Topline Alfonso Cuaron Apple Series 'Disclaimer'Lesley Goldberg — 1 December 2021
- 220NewsDisclaimer review – only Cate Blanchett could deal with a script this abominableLucy Mangan — 11 October 2024
- 221NewsCate Blanchett Boards Venice-Bound Short Film 'Marion' as Executive Producer (EXCLUSIVE)K.J. Yossman — 23 July 2024
- 223'Squid Game' 3 Ending Spoilers: A Massive Celeb Cameo Teases 'Squid Game' USAMegan O'Keefe — 27 June 2025
- 225Cate Blanchett to Star in Pedro Almodóvar's First English-Language Feature 'A Manual for Cleaning Women'Clayton Davis — 7 January 2022
- 227'How to Train Your Dragon 2': Cate Blanchett Returning as Valka for Universal's Live-Action Remake (Exclusive)Borys Kit — 15 January 2026
- 228Searchlight Pictures Signs First-Look Deal With Cate Blanchett's Dirty FilmsBrent Lang — 23 February 2026
- 229National Theatre announces new shows with Cate Blanchett to star in ELECTRA/PERSONAShehrazade Zafar-Arif — 5 May 2026
- 230Cate Blanchett to Star as Martha Stewart in Biopic Movie from 'Zola' Director Janicza BravoJack Dunn — 14 April 2026
- 231MagazineIs Cate Blanchett Our Greatest Living Actor?17 October 2022
- 232Cate Blanchett: Life after ElizabethDecember 2000
- 233What the Camera Sees in HerDaphne Merkin — 9 November 2003
- 234Cate Blanchett reveling return to the throne14 October 2007
- 235Gross und Klein (Big and Small)16 April 2012
- 236One for Me / One for Them: Cate BlanchettJoe Reid — Tribeca Film Festival — 26 July 2013
- 237Cate Blanchett on Truth, Quentin Tarantino, and Her Very Big YearKyle Buchanan — 6 October 2015
- 238Cate Blanchett Stars in a Massive Art Installation Coming to New YorkKara Weisenstein — 9 August 2016
- 239Cate Blanchett to Make Broadway Debut in Play Directed by John CrowleyMichael Paulson — 27 January 2016
- 240Watch Cate Blanchett play 13 characters in the Manifesto trailerDan Einav — 18 January 2017
- 241Cate Blanchett: 10 of her best films, from Lord of the Rings to Blue JasmineAlexandra Pollard et al. — 24 January 2019
- 242From ice queen to hothead: how Cate Blanchett negotiated stardom on her own termsSarah Hughes — 5 July 2020
- 243Cate Blanchett named her favourite books of all timeSwapnil Dhruv Bose — 14 May 2022
- 244Cate Blanchett Is Getting Some of the Best Reviews of Her Oscar-Winning Career for Her New Film, TárJosh Kurp — 1 September 2022
- 245Cate Blanchett in 10 memorable roles5 January 2018
- 246NewsCate Blanchett: My next role? A Trump‑loving anti‑feministHelen Rumbelow
- 247The 60 greatest film actors of the 21st century (so far)1 January 2025
- 248Actors with the Best Fake Accents in FilmsNew York Film Academy — 3 August 2018
- 249NewsEmpire's 50 Greatest Actors of All Time List, RevealedBen Travis et al. — 20 December 2022
- 250Every Cate Blanchett Performance, RankedWill Leitch — 3 November 2017
- 251The 50 Best Movie Performances of the DecadeDavid Ehrlich — 23 July 2019
- 253NewsWhat Does Being Best Dressed Mean?Vanessa Friedman — 23 December 2019
- 254MagazineThe 2014 International Best-Dressed List30 July 2014
- 255NewsAudrey Hepburn tops beauty poll31 May 2004
- 256Empire's 100 Sexiest Movie Stars11 December 2007
- 257The 100 Sexiest Movie Stars: The Women7 October 2013
- 258The Hollywood Reporter's 2022 Women in Entertainment Power 1007 December 2022
- 259Archibald Prize 06Art Gallery of New South Wales
- 260Tim Maguire: Cate, take 1 / Cate, take 2Art Gallery of New South Wales
- 262Cate Blanchett Arrives in HollywoodMadame Tussauds
- 263Cate Blanchett gets a sculpture as part of the Statues for Equality project3 September 2019
- 265Blanchett, Catherine (Cate) EliseAustralian Women's Archives Project
- 266The Climate Reality ProjectThe Australian Conservation Foundation
- 267Who on earth cares? Cate Blanchett doesThe Australian Conservation Foundation
- 268ACF leads the environmental evolutionThe Australian Conservation Foundation
- 270NewsI want to be able to look my children in the face31 May 2011
- 271'Carbon Cate' and the double-edged sword of celebrity endorsementNives Zubcevic-Basic — 2 June 2011
- 272Cate Blanchett talks about SolarAid on the BBCSolarAid.com — 22 May 2008
- 275Cate Blanchett Wears Chopard's Green Carpet Collection to win Best Actress at the Golden GlobesEco-age.com — 12 January 2015
- 276Cate Blanchett Wears Chopard's "Green Carpet Challenge" Earrings to 2014 Golden GlobesEcouterre.com — 13 January 2014
- 277Cate Blanchett's Recycled Venice Film Festival Wardrobe Marks A "Turning Point"11 September 2020
- 278Sh7bn environment 'Nobel' prize launched9 October 2020
- 279Cate Blanchett Sets Climate Change Podcast At AudiblePeter White — 3 February 2022
- 280Prince William Is the Surprise Guest on Cate Blanchett's New Podcast About Climate ChangeStephanie Petit — 13 April 2022
- 281Cate Blanchett becomes nature reserve ambassadorLauren Collins — 22 April 2024
- 282Join Cate Blanchett and explore the Millennium Seed Bank in a new series of Kew's award-winning podcastEddie Johnston — 22 October 2025
- 283NewsCate Blanchett declared a noisy neighbour by Cornish villagersWill Humphries — 24 October 2023
- 284NewsCate Blanchett accused of 'destroying family holidays' with Cornwall homeNadeem Badshah — 28 February 2024
- 286Cate Blanchett appointed UNHCR Goodwill AmbassadorClaire Lewis — United Nations High Commission for Refugees — 2 May 2016
- 287What They Took With Them – #WithRefugeesUnited Nations High Commission for Refugees — 7 September 2016
- 2882016 Stories – #WithRefugeesUnited Nations High Commission for Refugees
- 291NewsCate Blanchett tells of atrocities against Rohingya children – video29 August 2018
- 293BookUpturn: A better normal after COVID-19Cate Blanchett — NewSouth — 2020
- 294NewsCate Blanchett: 'Covid-19 has ravaged the whole idea of small government'Cate Blanchett — 29 October 2020
- 295NewsTaika Waititi leads all-star charity Roald Dahl readingsFlood Alison — 18 May 2020
- 296NewsAngry Students Continue To Occupy Budapest Film School To Protest Changes8 September 2020
- 297Cate Blanchett, Helen Mirren és Eddie Redmayne is kiáll az SZFE mellett7 September 2020
- 298NewsHollywood stars who broke silence on Israel- Palestine conflict, here is the list31 October 2023
- 299NewsThe Queen and IHoward Feinstein — 28 November 1998
- 301NewsAndrew Upton: Life in the shadow of his wifeAlice Jones — 19 August 2008
- 302NewsCate Blanchett's Pale FireLaura Jacobs — March 1999
- 303Cat Blanchett and Dashiell hop to it4 December 2009
- 304Cate Blanchett gives birth to a son26 April 2004
- 305Cate Blanchett welcomes third son, Ignatius Martin13 April 2008
- 306Cate Blanchett Has Adopted a Baby Girl6 March 2015
- 307Cate Blanchett and Husband Andrew Upton Adopt a Baby GirlMichael Rothman — 6 March 2015
- 308When Three Became FourLauren Milligan — 31 March 2015
- 309Charlie RoseCharlierose.com
- 310Cate Blanchett: A wicked talentMichele Manelis — mindfood.com — 18 May 2015
- 311Head FirstMichael Specter — November 2006
- 312NewsCate buys mansion for $10mHannah Edwards — 12 December 2004
- 313NewsWelcome to Cate Blanchett's dream eco-home8 July 2007
- 314NewsCate Blanchett purchases $6 million English manor 'Highwell House'Alexandra Spangaro — Domain Group — 18 January 2016
- 315Cate Blanchett: Equality For Women Being LostSky News — 17 September 2013
- 316The Golden Age of CateHarriet Walker — 2014
- 317About Us – Our PeopleAACTA
- 318NewsSydney Film Festival to kick off with Hanna premiere11 May 2011
- 319Launch of the new Australian Pavilion in the historic Venice Biennale GardensAustralia Council for the Arts — 23 April 2015
- 320Cate Blanchett to speak at Tanya Plibersek fundraiser29 May 2015
- 321Cate Blanchett On Her Teenage Goth Years, Making Worst-Dressed Lists And More (Photos)Kitchens, Simone — 4 December 2012
- 322Beauty diary: SK-II face Cate BlanchettKerry Pieri — Harper's Bazaar — 4 January 2013
- 325Exclusive: Cate Blanchett on Armani Perfume and ActingJennifer Weil — 1 February 2019
- 326Cate Blanchett Has Been Named Louis Vuitton's Newest AmbassadorJessica Bailey — 28 June 2022
- 327NewsCate Blanchett Movie Box Office ResultsIMDb
- 328The 77th Academy Awards 20055 October 2014
- 329The 86th Academy Awards 20147 October 2014
- 330EE BAFTA Film Awards: Winners Announced 202319 February 2023
- 338When the Academy Nominates Actors Twice For Playing the Same CharacterMichele Debczak — 15 January 2016
- 339Australian actors top Oscars list after United States and Britain19 January 2015
- 340NewsWomen in Hollywood Spotlights several22 September 2006
- 341SBIFF – Cate Blanchett, Modern MasterArlington Theater — 14 December 2007
- 342Cate Blanchett – Hollywood Walk of FameWalk of Fame
- 344MoMA's Eighth Annual Film Benefit to Honor Cate Blanchett on November 17Museum of Modern Art — 30 July 2015
- 345Cate Blanchett to be Honored at MoMA's 2015 Film Benefit3 August 2015
- 346Cate Blanchett to receive BFI Fellowship at LFF Awards CeremonyBritish Film Institute — 3 September 2015
- 348AACTA Longford Lyell AwardAustralian Film Institute
- 349Lacoste Spotlight AwardCostume Designers Guild — 6 January 2016
- 351NewsQueen's Birthday 2017 Honours: The full list12 June 2017
- 352NewsQueen's birthday honours list: Cate Blanchett and Alan Joyce among Australians recognisedChristopher Knaus — 11 June 2017
- 353Cate Blanchett receives honorary doctorate from Macquarie UniversityMacquarie University, Sydney — 25 September 2014
- 354Blanchett receives honorary doctorateSky News — 25 September 2014
- 355MagazineCate Blanchett takes on academic roleJason Blake — 16 June 2026
- 356NewsCate Blanchett to Receive Lifetime Cesar Award From French Film Academy17 December 2021
- 358Auszeichnung: Hollywoodstar Cate Blanchett erhält Praemium ImperialeDer Tagesspiegel — 8 September 2026
- 359BookCate BlanchettBlass, Sandra et al. — Weber, Fachverlag für Filmliteratur — 2006
- 360BookThe Missing: A NovelEidson, Thomas — Random House Trade Paperbacks — 2003
- 361BookDrama ReloadedElliott, Peter et al. — Cambridge University Press — 2011
- 362BookRoyal Portraits in Hollywood: Filming the Lives of QueensFord, Elizabeth et al. — University Press of Kentucky — 2009
- 363BookHistorical Dictionary of Australian and New Zealand CinemaMoran, Albert et al. — Scarecrow Press — 2005
- 364BookInternational Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers: Actors and ActressesSt. James Press — 2000
- 365BookShining in Shadows: Movie Stars of the 2000sRutgers University Press — 2011
- 366BookContemporary Theatre, Film and televisionRiggs, Thomas — Cengage Gale — 2007
- 367BookPlaying Australia: Australian Theatre and the International StageSchafer, Elizabeth et al. — Rodopi — 2003
- 368BookShakespeare and Chekhov in Production and Reception: Theatrical Events and Their AudiencesTulloch, John — University of Iowa Press — 2009
- 369BookDas grosse Personenlexikon des Films. Erster Band, A-CWeniger, Kay — Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf — 2001