Cate Blanchett

Cate Blanchett is an Australian screen and stage actress. She has won numerous awards including two Academy Awards, four BAFTAs, four Golden Globes and four Screen Actors Guild awards.

Cate recently played Arkadina in a thrilling new adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull at the Barbican Theatre in London, adapted by Thomas Ostermeier and Duncan Macmillan.

She is widely known for her varied film roles including Tár, Blue Jasmine, Elizabeth, The Lord of The Rings Trilogy and The Hobbit, and The Aviator. Her most recent performance in London include playing Arkadina in a thrilling new adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull at the Barbican Theatre and Martin Crimp’s When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other directed by Katie Mitchell.

Theatre credits

Cate Blanchett served alongside Andrew Upton as co-Artistic Director and co-CEO of Sydney Theatre Company (STC) between 2008-2013, producing 16 shows a year across 4 stages, many of which toured nationally and internationally. Notable productions include Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire directed by Liv Ullman; Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya directed by Tamás Ascher, Steven Soderbergh’s Tot Mom; Benedict Andrews’ productions of The War Of The Roses, Genet’s The Maids and Botho Strauss’ Gross Und Klein; the seminal adaptation of The Secret River by Neil Armfield; numerous productions by director Kip Williams; and Andrew Upton’s The Present directed by John Crowley for which Blanchett earned a Tony Award nomination for its Broadway run.

Film credits

Cate’s film credits include Badlands, Tár, Nightmare Alley, Don’t Look Up, Ocean’s 8, Thor: Ragnorok, Carol, Blue Jasmine, I’m Not There, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Notes on a Scandal, The Life Aquatic, Indiana Jones and The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull, The Lord of The Rings Trilogy and The Hobbit, The Good German, The Aviator, The Talented Mr Ripley and Elizabeth.

Film production & media

Blanchett is co-Founder and Principal of production company Dirty Films for which she has produced and acted, alongside partners Andrew Upton and Coco Francini, which recently launched PROOF OF CONCEPT, providing support and opportunities to women, trans and non-binary filmmakers. She created and produced the award-winning Audible Original podcast CLIMATE OF CHANGE, and produced EVOLVER, a VR interactive experience which was selected for the first ever Immersive Competition at the Cannes Film Festival. She has presided over festival juries in Cannes and Venice, and The Venice Film Festival has twice awarded her The Volpi Cup for Best Performance.

Awards & accolades

Cate Blanchett has won numerous awards including two Academy Awards (Best Actress for Blue Jasmine (2013), Best Supporting Actress for The Aviator (2004)); four BAFTAs, four Golden Globes and four Screen Actors Guild awards.

Blanchett holds a BFI Fellowship from the BFI London Film Festival, has received the Stanley Kubrick Award for Excellence in Film and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Numerous other accolades include the Honorary Cesar, International Goya and Chaplin Awards.

Academy Awards – the Oscars

Best Actress: Blue Jasmine (2013)
Nominated for Best Actress: Elizabeth (1998), Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007), Carol (2015), Tár (2022).

Best Supporting Actress: The Aviator (2004)
Nominated for Best Supporting Actress: Notes on a Scandal (2006), I’m Not There (2007)

Golden Globe Awards

Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama for Elizabeth (1998), Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture for I’m Not There (2007), Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama for Blue Jasmine (2013) and Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama for Tár (2022).

Nominations include: Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama for Veronica Guerin (2003), Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2207), Carol (2015); Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for Bandits (2001), Where’d You Go, Bernadette (2019); and, Best Actress – Limited Series or Television Film for Mrs America

Cate Blanchett Press Interviews

InterviewCate Blanchett: ‘I think you can smell when something is cynical’ (Arifa Akbar, The Guardian, 15 February 2025) - Read more

Interview‘Everything is so fragile’: Cate Blanchett on marriage, #MeToo and the state of the world (Eva Wiseman, The Guardian, 9 March 2025) - Read more