Cate Blanchett

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NAME:	Cate Blanchett
PROFILE:	Name: Cate Blanchett Birth Name: Catherine Elise Blanchett Height: 5' 8½'' Sex: F Nationality: Australian Birth Date: May 14, 1969 Birth Place: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Profession: Actress, Producer Education: Methodist Ladies College (MLC), Melbourne, Australia Melbourne University in Melbourne, Australia (majored in Art History) National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney, Australia (graduated in 1992) Husband/Wife: Andrew Upton (film editor, screenwriter; married in June 1997) Father: (advertising executive from Texas; died in 1979) Mother: June (Australian; businesswoman, former teacher) Sister: Genevieve (theater designer; younger) Brother: Robert (works in the computer field; older) Son: Roman Robert Upton (born on April 23, 2004 in London), Dashiell John Upton (born in December 3, 2001) Claim to fame: As Elizabeth I in Shekhar Kapur' Elizabeth (1998) Contact: Click here
GOSSIP:	Says she is terrified of meeting rocker Bob Dylan after playing him in the upcoming film I'M NOT THERE. Is putting her film career on hold to become artistic director of an Australian theater company. (November 11, 2006) Says she would rather go to bed with a man in his 60s than have sex with a toyboy. (November 10, 2006) Returned to her native Australia to appeal for calm following the recent race riots in Sydney. (December 18, 2005) Her young son after he was burned in an accident in Morocco when she was shooting BABEL alongside Brad Pitt in the African country. (May 18, 2005) Criticized other actresses for using botox. Was named the most stylish actress and woman of the year at Britain's 2005 Elle Style Awards. Has paid $10.2 million for a six bedroom sandstone house at Hunters Hill. (December 14, 2004) Said she had to wrench herself away from urban comforts and train hard on horseback to transform herself into the pioneer mother she plays in Ron Howard's THE MISSING, a Western kidnap thriller. (February 10, 2004) Discovered she was pregnant when she passed out on the set of her new movie THE LIFE AQUATIC, while she was being fitted with a prosthetic belly. (November 6, 2003) Shows a mesmerizing, complicated force of nature in the true-life tale of Ireland's most famous journalist, Veronica Guerin, as she captures the larger-than-life persona of Guerin with panache and charm. (October 18, 2003) Says playing Veronica Guerin in the new film bearing the Irish journalist's name was utterly nerve wracking. (October 17, 2003) Blanchett said she was terrified playing the true story of a crusading Irish journalist in VERONICA GUERIN, but noted that the film itself is not truth. (September 9, 2003) Blanchett was captivated by her latest role in the true story of murdered Irish journalist Veronica Guerin that she felt enormous responsibility towards Veronica's family in how the movie - also called VERONICA GUERIN - portrayed her life. (July 11, 2003) Blanchett has given a substantial donation to a Santa Fe-based environmental group, Forest Guardians -- Blanchett, who was in New Mexico recently filming Ron Howard's THE MISSING, said the donation was made on behalf of the cast and crew to help preserve the state's natural splendor for generations to come. (July 3, 2003) MORE CATE BLANCHETT TRIVIA
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