Cate Blanchett 1969 56
Cate Blanchett 1969 56
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).
2
Popularity132
Credits6.8
Rating92.3M
Budget338M
RevenueActing
Primarily132 Credits
View all credits
Credit 132
2025 Father Mother Sister Brother as Timothea
2025 Alpha Gang as Alpha One Producer
2025 The Champions Producer
2025 Queen Bitch and the High Horse Producer
2025 A Manual for Cleaning Women Producer
2025 Peaches Executive Producer
2025 Black Bag as Kathryn St. Jean Associate Producer
2025 Bozo Over Roses
2024 VOGUE: Inventing the Runway as Narrator
2024 Marion Executive Producer
2024 Borderlands as Lilith
2024 Rumours as Hilda Orlmann Executive Producer
2024 Can Creativity Save the World? as Self
2023 Evolver as Self - Narrator (voice) Executive Producer
2023 Fingernails Producer
2023 Shayda Executive Producer
2023 The New Boy as Sister Eileen Producer
2023 The Fundraiser as Lydia Tár
2023 Knowing the Score Executive Producer
2023 Harrison Ford: Hollywood Hero as Self
2022 Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: Handcarved Cinema as Self
2022 Euphoria as Tiger (voice)
2022 2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony as Self
2022 Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio as Spazzatura (voice)
2022 The School for Good and Evil as The Storian (voice)
2022 TÁR as Lydia Tár Executive Producer
2022 Ukraine: Life Under Russia's Attack as Self - Narrator (voice) Executive Producer
2022 Ukraine: Life Under Attack: Dispatches as Self - Narrator (voice)
2021 Don't Look Up as Brie Evantee
2021 Nightmare Alley as Dr. Lilith Ritter
2021 Apples Executive Producer
2021 Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age as Self - Actress (archive footage)
2020 The Four Temperaments as Red / Blue / Yellow / Green
2020 Symphony Of The Invisible as Self (voice)
2020 Ride It Out as Narrator (voice)
2019 Stuart X as Self - Narrator (voice)
2019 Sweet Tooth as Narrator (voice)
2019 Where'd You Go, Bernadette as Bernadette
2019 This Changes Everything as Self
2019 How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World as Valka (voice)
2018 Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle as Kaa (voice)
2018 The House with a Clock in Its Walls as Florence Zimmerman
2018 Reimagining The Met Gala as Self
2018 Ocean's Team 3.0 as Self
2018 The Carnival is Over as Actress
2018 Jill Bilcock: Dancing the Invisible as Herself
2018 Ocean's Eight as Lou
2017 Spielberg as Self
2017 Thor: Ragnarok as Hela
2017 Manifesto as Various
2017 The Dinner Thanks
2017 Song to Song as Amanda
2017 Jill Bilcock: The Art of Film Editing as Herself
2017 Voyage of Time: Life's Journey as Narrator (voice)
2017 Red as Mother
2016 Earthflight 3D as Narrator
2016 Refugee as Narrator (voice)
2015 Carol as Carol Aird Executive Producer
2015 Truth as Mary Mapes
2015 Knight of Cups as Nancy
2015 Manifesto
2015 Cinderella as Stepmother, Lady Tremaine
2014 The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies as Galadriel
2014 How to Train Your Dragon 2 as Valka (voice)
2014 The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden as Dore Strauch (voice)
2014 And the Oscar Goes To... as Self (archive footage)
2014 The Monuments Men as Claire Simone
2013 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug as Galadriel
2013 Journey to the South Pacific as narrator
2013 Making a Scene as Woman
2013 The Making of 'Making a Scene' as Self
2013 The Turning as Gail Lang
2013 Blue Jasmine as Jasmine
2013 Girl Rising as Narrator - Haiti (voice)
2012 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey as Galadriel
2012 A Cautionary Tail as Narrator
2011 Hanna as Marissa
2010 Robin Hood as Marion Loxley
2010 The Real Robin Hood as Self
2010 Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy as Self (archive footage)
2009 The Curious Birth of Benjamin Button as Self
2008 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button as Daisy Fuller
2008 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull as Irina Spalko
2008 Mon Clown as Self (archive footage)
2007 I'm Not There as Jude
2007 Common Ground: Under Construction Notes as Self
2007 Elizabeth: The Golden Age as Elizabeth I, Queen of England
2007 In the Company of Actors as Self / Hedda Gabler
2007 Hot Fuzz as Janine (uncredited)
2006 Notes on a Scandal as Sheba Hart
2006 The Good German as Lena Brandt
2006 Babel as Susan Jones
2005 Little Fish as Tracy
2005 This Is an Adventure as Self
2005 Matthew Gray Gubler's Life Aquatic Intern Journal as Self
2005 On the Set: 'The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou' as Self / Jane W.
2004 The Aviator as Katharine Hepburn
2004 A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King' as Self
2004 The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou as Jane Winslett-Richardson
2004 Stories of Lost Souls as Julie-Anne
2004 The Making of the Return of the King as Self
2004 Coffee and Cigarettes as Cate / Shelly (segment "Cousins")
2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King as Galadriel
2003 The Missing as Maggie Gilkeson
2003 Veronica Guerin as Veronica Guerin
2003 The Making of The Two Towers
2002 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers as Galadriel
2002 Heaven as Philippa
2001 Charlotte Gray as Charlotte Gray
2001 Beyond the Movie: The Fellowship of the Ring as Self
2001 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring as Galadriel
2001 The Shipping News as Petal
2001 A Passage to Middle-Earth: Making of 'Lord of the Rings' as Self
2001 Quest for the Ring as Self
2001 Bandits as Kate Wheeler
2000 The Man Who Cried as Lola
2000 Inside 'The Talented Mr. Ripley' as Self
2000 The Gift as Annie Wilson
2000 Reflections on 'the Talented Mr. Ripley' as Self
1999 The Talented Mr. Ripley as Meredith Logue
1999 Bangers as Julie-Ann Producer
1999 Eyes Wide Shut as Mysterious Woman (voice) (uncredited)
1999 Pushing Tin as Connie Falzone
1999 An Ideal Husband as Lady Gertrude Chiltern
1999 Hello Kitty’s Paradise: Learn With Love as Cathy (voice)
1998 Elizabeth as Elizabeth I
1997 Oscar and Lucinda as Lucinda Leplastrier
1997 Thank God He Met Lizzie as Lizzie
1997 Paradise Road as Susan Macarthy
1996 Parklands as Rosie
1994 Police Rescue: The Movie as Vivian
1990 Kaborya as Extra (uncredited)
Genres
7.38 Adventure 20
7.35 Fantasy 15
7.11 Documentary 34
7.11 Family 5
7.10 Animation 5
7.09 Action 16
7.07 TV Movie 5
6.61 Music 7
6.59 Science Fiction 5
6.58 Crime 10
6.44 Drama 52
6.43 Thriller 11
6.38 History 9
6.33 Comedy 18
6.33 Romance 16
6.30 Western 1
6.21 Mystery 6
6.09 War 5
5.63 Horror 4