Cate Blanchett

Biography

Catherine Elise Blanchett (born May 14, 1969) is an Australian actor and producer. Regarded as one of the best actresses of her generation, she is known for her versatile work across independent films, blockbusters, and the stage. Blanchett is the recipient of numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, three British Academy Film Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards. After graduating from the National Institute of Dramatic Art, Blanchett began her acting career on the Australian stage, taking on roles in Electra in 1992 and Hamlet in 1994. She came to international attention as Elizabeth I in the drama film Elizabeth (1998), for which she won the Golden Globe and BAFTA Award for Best Actress, and received her first of seven Academy Award nominations. Her portrayal of Katharine Hepburn in Martin Scorsese's The Aviator (2004) won her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She later won the Academy Award for Best Actress for playing a neurotic former socialite in Woody Allen's comedy-drama Blue Jasmine (2013). Blanchett's other Oscar-nominated roles include Notes on a Scandal (2006), I'm Not There (2007), Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007), and Carol (2015). Her highest-grossing films include The Lord of the Rings (2001–2003) and The Hobbit (2012–2014) trilogies, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008), Cinderella (2015), Thor: Ragnarok (2017), and Ocean's 8 (2018). Blanchett has performed in over 20 theatre productions. From 2008 to 2013, she and her husband, Andrew Upton, were the artistic directors of the Sydney Theatre Company. Some of her stage roles during that period were in revivals of A Streetcar Named Desire, Uncle Vanya and The Maids, garnering several theatre awards and nominations. She made her Broadway debut in 2017 in The Present, for which she received a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play nomination. Blanchett has also received Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie and Outstanding Limited Series as producer for the FX/Hulu historical drama miniseries Mrs. America (2020).

Known For

The Simpsons

Family Guy

Family Guy

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

The Kelly Clarkson Show

Squid Game

All Movies (127)

• How to Train Your Dragon 22027 · as Valka
• National Theatre Live: Electra/Persona2026 · as unknown
• Maverick: The Epic Adventures of David Lean2026 · as Narrator
• David Attenborough's 100 Years on Planet Earth2026 · as Self
• Father Mother Sister Brother2025 · as Timothea
• Black Bag2025 · as Kathryn St. Jean
• Bozo Over Roses2025
• VOGUE: Inventing the Runway2024 · as Narrator
• Borderlands2024 · as Lilith
• Rumours2024 · as Hilda Orlmann
• Can Creativity Save the World?2024 · as Self
• Evolver2023 · as Self - Narrator (voice)
• The New Boy2023 · as Sister Eileen
• The Fundraiser2023 · as Lydia Tár
• Harrison Ford: Hollywood Hero2023 · as Self
• Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: Handcarved Cinema2022 · as Self
• Euphoria2022 · as Tiger (voice)
• 2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony2022 · as Self
• Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio2022 · as Spazzatura (voice)
• The School for Good and Evil2022 · as The Storian (voice)
• TÁR2022 · as Lydia Tár
• Ukraine: Life Under Russia's Attack2022 · as Self - Narrator (voice)
• Ukraine: Life Under Attack: Dispatches2022 · as Self - Narrator (voice)
• Don't Look Up2021 · as Brie Evantee
• Nightmare Alley2021 · as Dr. Lilith Ritter
• Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age2021 · as Self - Actress (archive footage)
• The Four Temperaments2020 · as Red / Blue / Yellow / Green
• Symphony Of The Invisible2020 · as Self (voice)
• Ride It Out2020 · as Narrator (voice)
• Stuart X2019 · as Self - Narrator (voice)
• Sweet Tooth2019 · as Narrator (voice)
• Where'd You Go, Bernadette2019 · as Bernadette
• This Changes Everything2019 · as Self
• How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World2019 · as Valka (voice)
• Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle2018 · as Kaa (voice)
• The House with a Clock in Its Walls2018 · as Florence Zimmerman
• Reimagining The Met Gala2018 · as Self
• Ocean's Team 3.02018 · as Self
• Jill Bilcock: Dancing the Invisible2018 · as Self
• Ocean's Eight2018 · as Lou
• Spielberg2017 · as Self
• Thor: Ragnarok2017 · as Hela
• Manifesto2017 · as Various
• Song to Song2017 · as Amanda
• Jill Bilcock: The Art of Film Editing2017 · as Self
• Voyage of Time: Life's Journey2017 · as Narrator (voice)
• Red2017 · as Mother
• Earthflight 3D2016 · as Narrator
• Refugee2016 · as Self - Narrator (voice)
• Carol2015 · as Carol Aird
• Truth2015 · as Mary Mapes
• Knight of Cups2015 · as Nancy
• Cinderella2015 · as Stepmother, Lady Tremaine
• The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies2014 · as Galadriel
• How to Train Your Dragon 22014 · as Valka (voice)
• The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden2014 · as Dore Strauch (voice)
• The Monuments Men2014 · as Claire Simone
• A Smarter Country2014 · as Self
• The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug2013 · as Galadriel
• Journey to the South Pacific2013 · as Narrator (voice)
• Making a Scene | 11 Performances2013
• The Turning2013 · as Gail Lang
• Blue Jasmine2013 · as Jasmine
• Girl Rising2013 · as Narrator - Haiti (voice)
• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey2012 · as Galadriel
• A Cautionary Tail2012 · as Narrator
• Hanna2011 · as Marissa
• Rise and Rise Again: Making Ridley Scott's Robin Hood2010 · as Self
• Robin Hood2010 · as Marion Loxley
• The Real Robin Hood2010 · as Self
• The Curious Birth of Benjamin Button2009 · as Self
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button2008 · as Daisy Fuller
• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull2008 · as Irina Spalko
• I'm Not There2007 · as Jude
• Common Ground: Under Construction Notes2007 · as Self
• Elizabeth: The Golden Age2007 · as Elizabeth I, Queen of England
• In the Company of Actors2007 · as Self / Hedda Gabler
• Hot Fuzz2007 · as Janine (uncredited)
• Notes on a Scandal2006 · as Sheba Hart
• The Good German2006 · as Lena Brandt
• Babel2006 · as Susan Jones
• Little Fish2005 · as Tracy
• This Is an Adventure2005 · as Self
• Matthew Gray Gubler's Life Aquatic Intern Journal2005 · as Self
• On the Set: 'The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou'2005 · as Self / Jane W.
• The Aviator2004 · as Katharine Hepburn
• A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'2004 · as Self
• The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou2004 · as Jane Winslett-Richardson
• Stories of Lost Souls2004 · as Julie-Anne
• The Making of 'The Return of the King'2004 · as Self
• Coffee and Cigarettes2004 · as Cate / Shelly (segment "Cousins")
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King2003 · as Galadriel
• The Missing2003 · as Maggie Gilkeson
• Veronica Guerin2003 · as Veronica Guerin
• The Making of 'The Two Towers'2003
• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers2002 · as Galadriel
• The Fellowship of the Ring: The Fellowship of the Cast2002 · as Self (archive)
• Heaven2002 · as Philippa
• Charlotte Gray2001 · as Charlotte Gray
• Beyond the Movie: The Fellowship of the Ring2001 · as Self
• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring2001 · as Galadriel
• The Shipping News2001 · as Petal
• Passage to Middle-Earth: The Making of 'The Lord of the Rings'2001 · as Self
• Quest for the Ring2001 · as Self
• Bandits2001 · as Kate Wheeler
• The Gift2000 · as Annie Wilson
• The Man Who Cried2000 · as Lola
• Inside 'The Talented Mr. Ripley'2000 · as Self
• Reflections on 'the Talented Mr. Ripley'2000 · as Self
• The Talented Mr. Ripley1999 · as Meredith Logue
• Bangers1999 · as Julie-Ann
• Eyes Wide Shut1999 · as Mysterious Woman (voice) (uncredited)
• Pushing Tin1999 · as Connie Falzone
• An Ideal Husband1999 · as Lady Gertrude Chiltern
• Elizabeth1998 · as Elizabeth I
• Oscar and Lucinda1997 · as Lucinda Leplastrier
• Thank God He Met Lizzie1997 · as Lizzie
• Paradise Road1997 · as Susan Macarthy
• Parklands1996 · as Rosie
• Police Rescue: The Movie1994 · as Vivian
• A Manual for Cleaning Women—
• The Champions—
• Alpha Gang— · as Alpha One
• Sweetsick—
• Monica—
• Good Thing— · as Martha Stewart
• Untitled Brady Corbet Film—

All TV Shows (53)

• Mr. Scorsese2025 · as Self
• Disclaimer2024 · as Catherine Ravenscroft
• Our Living World2024 · as Self - Narrator (voice)
• Faut Voir - L'Hebdo cinéma2023 · as Self - Guest
• Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled2023 · as Self
• Taskmaster2023 · as Self - Cameo
• Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg2022 · as Self
• Squid Game2021 · as The Recruiter
• What If...?2021 · as Hela (voice)
• Marvel Studios Legends2021 · as Hela (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Homemade2020 · as Narrator
• Staged2020 · as Cate
• Mrs. America2020 · as Phyllis Schlafly
• Stateless2020 · as Pat Masters
• The Kelly Clarkson Show2019 · as Self
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert2015 · as Self - Guest
• Documentary Now!2015 · as Alice
• Documentary Now!2015 · as Izabella Barta
• Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter2015 · as Self
• Hot Ones2015 · as Self
• Variety Studio: Actors on Actors2014 · as Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon2014 · as Self - Guest
• Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen2009 · as Self - Guest
• The Graham Norton Show2007 · as Self
• The Graham Norton Show2007 · as Self - Guest
• The Reichen Show2005 · as Self - Guest
• The Ellen DeGeneres Show2003 · as Self
• Jimmy Kimmel Live!2003 · as Self
• Live from E!2002 · as Self
• Good Day Live2001 · as Self
• The Early Show1999 · as Self
• Family Guy1999 · as Queen Elizabeth II (voice)
• Family Guy1999 · as Penelope (voice)
• Parkinson1998 · as Self
• Elle Style Awards1997 · as Self - Winner
• The View1997 · as Self
• Leute heute1997 · as Self
• Bordertown1995 · as Bianca
• Inside the Actors Studio1994 · as Self
• Heartland1994 · as Elizabeth Ashton
• GMTV1993 · as Self
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno1992 · as Self
• Police Rescue1991 · as Mrs Haines
• The Simpsons1989 · as Elaine Wolff (voice)
• LIVE with Kelly and Mark1988
• Goldene Kamera1984 · as Self
• Wetten, dass..?1981 · as Self
• AACTA Awards1976 · as Self
• The American Film Institute Salute to ...1973 · as Self
• The Oscars1953 · as Self
• Today1952 · as Self
• The Emmy Awards1949 · as Self
• Golden Globe Awards1944 · as Self - Nominee