Catherine
Elise "Cate" Blanchett (born May 14, 1969) is an Academy
Award- and Golden Globe Award-winning Australian actress. She has
won various other awards, most notably two SAGs and two BAFTAs, as
well as the Volpi Cup at 64th Venice International Film Festival.
She came to international attention in the 1998 film Elizabeth,
directed by Shekhar Kapur, in which she played Elizabeth I of
England. She is also well known for her portrayals of the elf
queen Galadriel in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy
and Katharine Hepburn in Martin Scorsese's The Aviator, a role
which brought her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Blanchett received a host of new fans when she appeared in Peter
Jackson's The Lord of the Rings. She played the role of the High
Elf Queen Galadriel in all three films, which hold the record as
the highest grossing film trilogy of all time. In 2005, she won an
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for playing Katharine
Hepburn in Martin Scorsese's The Aviator. In 2006 she starred in
both Babel opposite Brad Pitt, and Notes on a Scandal playing
Sheba Hart opposite Dame Judi Dench. In 2007, she won the Best
Actress Award at the Venice Film Festival for portraying one of
six incarnations of Bob Dylan in Todd Haynes' feature film I'm Not
There. Blanchett was named as one of Time magazine's 100 Most
Influential People In The World in 2007 and also one of the most
successful actresses by Forbes magazine. Blanchett will next be
seen on screen in the eagerly anticipated Indiana Jones and the
Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and The Curious Case of Benjamin
Button, both will be released in 2008 ... more
