Cate Blanchett
Name: Catherine Élise Blanchett, Cate Blanchett
14 May 1969 (1969-05-14) (age 40)
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Occupation: Actress, Theatre director
Years active 1993–present
Spouse(s) Andrew Upton (1997–present)
Cate Blanchett attended primary school in Melbourne at Ivanhoe East Primary School before completing secondary education at Methodist Ladies’ College, where she explored her
Cast as Lucy, daughter of the character David Lurie, played by US star John Malkovich, Haines said she was delighted to win a lead role in the film based on the novel of the same name by award- winning ex-South African author JM Coetzee.
Haines, 30, said that, after being auditioned four times by director Steve Jacobs, she finally got the nod over Blanchett, who was told that she “was old for the role”.
“I auditioned in Cape Town for the role about three years ago. I got called back four times. T he director just wanted more and more from me,” she said.
The film, which opens in South Africa in June, was shot in Cape Town two years ago and revolves around the relationships of Malkovich’s character with a number of women, including one of his students, his daughter and a lover.
“Before acting with John, I thought he would be a tough, strict actor who was very serious because of his roles in movies such as Con Air and Being John Malkovich,” Haines said.
“But he is such a cool person, very political but more gentle than I had expected.”
passion for acting. She studied Economics and Fine Arts at the University of Melbourne before leaving Australia to travel overseas. When she was 18, Blanchett went on a vacation to Egypt. A fellow guest at a cheap hotel in Cairo asked if she wanted to be an extra in a movie, and the next day she found herself in a crowd scene cheering for an American boxer losing to an Egyptian in the film Kaboria, starring the late Egyptian actor Ahmad Zaki. Blanchett returned to Australia and later moved to Sydney to study at the National Institute of Dramatic Art; graduating in 1992 and beginning her career in the theatre.
Blanchett is a Patron of the Sydney Film Festival. She works as the face of SK-II, the luxury skin care brand owned by Procter & Gamble. In 2007, Blanchett became the ambassador for the Australian Conservation. She is also the Patron of the development charity SolarAid. Opening the 2008 9th World Congress of Metropolis in Sydney, Blanchett said: “The one thing that all great cities have in common is that they are all different.”
In the beginning of 2009, Blanchett appeared in a series of special edition postage stamps called “Legends of the Screen”, featuring Australian actors. She, Geoffrey Rush, Russell Crowe, and Nicole Kidman each appear twice in the series: once as themselves and once as their Academy Award-winning character.
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