Cate Blanchett
Cate Blanchett
Catherine Élise "Cate" Blanchettis an Australian actress and theatre director. She has received international acclaim and many accolades, including two Academy Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and three British Academy Awards. Blanchett came to international attention for her role as Elizabeth I of England in Shekhar Kapur's 1998 film Elizabeth, for which she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress, the Golden Globe Award, and earned her first Academy Award for Best Actress nomination. Her...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth14 May 1969
CityMelbourne, Australia
CountryAustralia
I think the atmosphere on set really comes from the material, but also the director.
Louise Frogley is a brilliant designer. I always find her wardrobe fittings really informative and creative. Together, you kick images and ideas around.
I would have loved to have been an architect - which, actually, would have been a disaster.
Passion is a quality I admire in a woman.
I find that the skills and the muscularity required to be on stage, you need to keep those up - I do, personally, in order to maintain your ability to perform on screen. You don't want to always be working in the one medium.
Once you get an offer from Steven Soderbergh, you just do anything you can to make it fit.
Like any mum, I fear some mysterious illness befalling my children.
I don't like to reduce a role to fit me. The challenge to me is to expand to it. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. But that's the challenge of it.
Being in Australia, I was really sun conscious. For a couple of summers there, I did the baby oil thing, and my my mom said, 'Just don't. You'll regret it.'
I'm not interested in using my father's death as some touch point for why I've become an actor - it's grossly opportunistic.
I don't mind not looking conventionally - you know, attractive if that's what the part requires.
It took me a long time to get comfortable with the idea of being photographed by a moving or still camera.
Thank you to Martin Scorsese - I hope my son will marry your daughter.
Obviously, if Woody Allen calls and says he wants you to read a script, of course you read it.