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Cate
Blanchett (born May 14,
1969) is an Academy
Award-winning Australian
actress.
She
was born Catherine Elise
Blanchett in Melbourne,
Victoria, Australia, the
daughter of a Texan
naval petty officer of
distant French descent
who came ashore in
Melbourne and met her
mother, a Melbourne
schoolteacher. Her
father, Robert, later
worked in advertising
after marrying her
mother, June. He died of
a heart attack when Cate
was 10 years old. She
has two siblings; the
elder, Bob, is a
computer programmer, and
her younger sister,
Genevieve, is a
theatrical
designer.
Her
husband is playwright
and screenwriter Andrew
Upton, whom she met back
in 1996 while she was
performing in a
production of The
Seagull. It was hardly
love at first sight,
however. "He thought I
was aloof and I thought
he was arrogant,"
Blanchett later
remarked. "It just shows
you how wrong you can
be. But once he kissed
me that was that." The
two were married on
December 29, 1997. Their
first child, son
Dashiell John, was born
on December 3, 2001;
their second child, son
Roman Robert, was born
on April 23, 2004. The
younger son received a
minor burn injury on May
15, 2005 while the
family was in Marrakech,
Morocco, for the filming
of the movie Babel.
After treatment there,
Blanchett flew with him
to London for further
treatment.
After
making England her main
family home for most of
the early 2000s, she has
recently returned to her
native
Australia.
Websites:
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Blanchett
- Cate Blanchett
filmography, awards,
biography, images and
more.
News:
Cate
Blanchett Swaps Film For
Theatre
13 November
2006
Cate
Blanchett Revives
Elizabeth
Role
14 March 2006
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