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Cate Blanchett (born May 14, 1969) is an Australian actress. She was born
Catherine Elise Blanchett in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, the daughter of a Texan naval petty officer 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 only 10 years old. She has two siblings; the elder, Bob, is a computer programmer, and her younger sister, Genevieve, is a set designer in the theatre.
Blanchett graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney in 1992, and began her career on the stage. Her first major stage role was opposite
Geoffrey Rush in the 1993 David Mamet play Oleanna. Her film debut was as an Australian nurse captured by the Japanese in the prisoner of war production of Paradise Road directed by Bruce Beresford, that co-starred
Glenn Close and Frances McDormand.
She married playwright and screenwriter Andrew Upton, who 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 in 1997 and welcomed their first child, Dashiell John, in December 2001 and their second child Roman Robert was born in 2004.
Blanchett is perhaps best known for her role as Elizabeth I, Queen of England in 1998's Elizabeth, which earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. Blanchett later won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 2005 for playing
Katharine Hepburn in Martin Scorcese's The Aviator.
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Published: Wed, 28 May 2008 17:24:36 GMT - Source: News.Bbc.Co.Uk - Read the articleMoviesIndiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Starring:
Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, Karen Allen, Ray Winstone, John
Hu...
Review:
Roger Ebert's thumb loved it, but a New York Times critic
said, "I was bored out of my mind." Holy schizo! Now that the
fourth chapter in the Indiana Jones series has opened and we can
see beyond the box-office gold rush, the truth emerges between the
extremes, you know, the place where disappointment eats at your
expectations.
Sure, I wanted Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal
Skull to be as classically adventurous as Raiders of the
Lost Ark, which kicked off the Indy saga in 1981. It isn't.
Crystal Skull is hit-and-miss like the clunky 1984 sequel,
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. And instead of the
elegiac tone that lifted 1989's presumptive valedictory,
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, director Steven
Spielberg and producer George Lucas have gotten sillier.
The...
Rating:
2.5 Stars
Published: Wed, 21 May 2008 10:38:00 GMT - Source: Rollingstone.Com - Read the article
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