1969-05-14 ( 55 years old ) in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Catherine Elise Blanchett (born May 14, 1969) is an Australian actor and producer. Regarded as one of the best actresses of her generation, she is known for her versatile work across independent films, blockbusters, and the stage. Blanchett is the recipient of numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, three British Academy Film Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards.
After graduating from the National Institute of Dramatic Art, Blanchett began her acting career on the Australian stage, taking on roles in Electra in 1992 and Hamlet in 1994. She came to international attention as Elizabeth I in the drama film Elizabeth (1998), for which she won the Golden Globe and BAFTA Award for Best Actress, and received her first of seven Academy Award nominations. Her portrayal of Katharine Hepburn in Martin Scorsese's The Aviator (2004) 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 Woody Allen's comedy-drama Blue Jasmine (2013). Blanchett's other Oscar-nominated roles include Notes on a Scandal (2006), I'm Not There (2007), Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007), and Carol (2015). Her highest-grossing films include The Lord of the Rings (2001–2003) and The Hobbit (2012–2014) trilogies, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008), Cinderella (2015), Thor: Ragnarok (2017), and Ocean's 8 (2018).
Blanchett has performed in over 20 theatre productions. From 2008 to 2013, she and her husband, Andrew Upton, were the artistic directors of the Sydney Theatre Company. Some of her stage roles during that period were in revivals of A Streetcar Named Desire, Uncle Vanya and The Maids, garnering several theatre awards and nominations. She made her Broadway debut in 2017 in The Present, for which she received a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play nomination. Blanchett has also received Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie and Outstanding Limited Series as producer for the FX/Hulu historical drama miniseries Mrs. America (2020).
Movies
Black Bag
2025-03-12
Bozo Over Roses
2025-01-31
VOGUE: Inventing the Runway
2024-11-13
Borderlands
2024-08-07
Rumours
2024-07-01
Can Creativity Save the World?
2024-04-18
Evolver
2023-11-23
The New Boy
2023-07-06
Sparks: Glastonbury 2023
2023-06-23
The Fundraiser
2023-02-23
Harrison Ford: Hollywood Hero
2023-02-01
Euphoria
2022-11-29
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
2022-11-09
The School for Good and Evil
2022-10-19
TÁR
2022-09-23
Ukraine: Life Under Russia's Attack
2022-08-02
Ukraine: Life Under Attack: Dispatches
2022-06-27
Don't Look Up
2021-12-08
Nightmare Alley
2021-12-02
The Four Temperaments
2020-12-08
Symphony Of The Invisible
2020-11-17
Ride It Out
2020-06-30
Stuart X
2019-10-16
Sweet Tooth
2019-08-31
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
2019-08-16
This Changes Everything
2019-06-28
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
2019-01-03
Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle
2018-11-25
The House with a Clock in Its Walls
2018-09-15
Reimagining The Met Gala
2018-09-11
Ocean's Team 3.0
2018-09-11
The Carnival is Over
2018-09-06
Jill Bilcock: Dancing the Invisible
2018-07-05
Ocean's Eight
2018-06-07
Spielberg
2017-10-05
Thor: Ragnarok
2017-10-02
Manifesto
2017-05-10
Song to Song
2017-03-17
Jill Bilcock: The Art of Film Editing
2017-03-14
Voyage of Time: Life's Journey
2017-03-10
Red
2017-01-26
Earthflight 3D
2016-10-07
Refugee
2016-04-23
Carol
2015-11-20
Truth
2015-10-16
Knight of Cups
2015-09-10
Manifesto
2015-07-25
Cinderella
2015-03-06
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
2014-12-10
How to Train Your Dragon 2
2014-06-05
The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden
2014-04-03
And the Oscar Goes To...
2014-02-01
The Monuments Men
2014-01-24
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
2013-12-11
Journey to the South Pacific
2013-11-27
Making a Scene
2013-11-25
The Making of 'Making a Scene'
2013-11-25
The Turning
2013-09-25
Blue Jasmine
2013-08-01
Girl Rising
2013-03-07
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2012-12-12
A Cautionary Tail
2012-01-01
Hanna
2011-04-07
Robin Hood
2010-05-12
The Real Robin Hood
2010-05-11
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
2010-05-04
The Curious Birth of Benjamin Button
2009-05-05
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2008-12-25
Mon Clown
2008-03-14
I'm Not There
2007-10-01
Common Ground: Under Construction Notes
2007-09-30
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
2007-09-09
In the Company of Actors
2007-06-10
Hot Fuzz
2007-02-14
Notes on a Scandal
2006-12-25
The Good German
2006-12-15
Babel
2006-10-26
Little Fish
2005-07-19
This Is an Adventure
2005-05-10
The Aviator
2004-12-17
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
2004-12-10
Stories of Lost Souls
2004-11-12
The Making of the Return of the King
2004-04-01
Coffee and Cigarettes
2004-03-12
The Missing
2003-11-26
Veronica Guerin
2003-07-11
The Making of The Two Towers
2003-04-01
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2002-12-18
Heaven
2002-02-06
Charlotte Gray
2001-12-28
Beyond the Movie: The Fellowship of the Ring
2001-12-23
The Shipping News
2001-12-18
Quest for the Ring
2001-11-29
Bandits
2001-10-12
The Man Who Cried
2000-08-29
Inside 'The Talented Mr. Ripley'
2000-06-27
The Gift
2000-03-16
Reflections on 'the Talented Mr. Ripley'
2000-01-01
The Talented Mr. Ripley
1999-12-25
Bangers
1999-08-05
Eyes Wide Shut
1999-07-16
Pushing Tin
1999-04-23
An Ideal Husband
1999-01-14
Hello Kitty’s Paradise: Learn With Love
1999-01-05
Elizabeth
1998-09-13
Oscar and Lucinda
1997-12-31
Thank God He Met Lizzie
1997-11-20
Paradise Road
1997-02-11
Parklands
1996-04-03
Police Rescue: The Movie
1994-03-16
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