Cate Blanchett is an Australian actress noted for her large range and ability to disappear convincingly into her characters. Odds are this talent will win her the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as Jasmine in Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine this Sunday.
In Blue Jasmine, Cate plays a New York socialite whose husband, played by Alec Baldwin, leaves her for a younger woman and her glamorous life of martinis and charity events dissolves into homelessness and delusion. When Cate isn’t making movies she actively works with her husband, playwright and screen writer Andrew Upton, bringing plays to the stage at the Sydney Theater Company. Cate has said her role of playing Blanche DuBois in Tennessee Williams’, ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ on stage inspired her Jasmine character. Cate and Andrew have three young boys, which is why they try to keep work close to home in Australia.
Cate first came to prominence in 1998 when she played Queen Elizabeth 1 in Elizabeth and was nominated for an Academy Award. Cate chooses her roles with care and consistently mixes indie with big budget films. She starred as the elf queen Lady Galadriel in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings Trilogy. She won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for capturing the New England voice patterns and demeanor of Katherine Hepburn in Martin Scorses’s The Aviator, opposite Leonardo DiCaprio. Her performance as Bob Dylan in the enigmatic, I’m Not Here in 2006 also garnered Cate another Best Supporting Actress nomination.
Look for Cate later this year to be on the silver screen in Cinderella as well as The Hobbit: There and Back Again. Cate has already won the Golden Globe for her Blue Jasmine performance. Tune in to the 86th Annual Academy Awards, this Sunday March 2 on ABC to see if she brings home another Oscar.
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