Cate blanchett

Born on May 14, 1969 in Melbourne, Catherine Elise Blanchett is the middle of the three children of an Australian teacher, and an American advertising executive. Her childhood was unhappy, because her parent died of a heart attack when she was ten years old. At that age she already stood out in the typical theater group of her school. She began to study Economics at the University of Melbourne, but a curious anecdote changed her life. She was visiting Egypt at the age of 18 when an individual showed up at the cheap Cairo hotel where she was staying to ask her if she wanted to play an extra in a movie. The next day it is assumed that she played the American boxer that she lost to an Egyptian. She scared him so much that in the end she didn’t dare. But she caught the acting bug,

As soon as she left, she became a celebrity in Australia, for starring in several plays, especially ‘Oleanna’, the most controversial text by the prolific David Mamet , where she played a student at an American university who had a relationship with her professor. Shortly after making her Australian film debut with Police Rescue , she would be hired in 1997 for an American production, Road to Paradise , starring Glenn Close . Thus, she began a brilliant career, because in a couple of years she became a Hollywood star. She began to be known with Elizabeth, for which she won the Golden Globe and was nominated for an Oscar. She later specialized in women who defy social convention, such as her characters in An Ideal Husband , The Talented Mr. Ripley, and Oscar and Lucinda . She even had time to marry Andrew Upton , an editor with whom she had worked on a film.

Soon after, she saw ‘dead people’ in Premonition , a supernatural thriller in which she played the mother of a family who had visions. The same premonitions that could be seen in the mirror of Galadriel, her character in The Lord of the Rings , the queen of the elves. She came out of the acid test: that Tolkien’s fans, the most demanding critics known, surrendered without conditions to her beauty. “Shooting this trilogy was a unique experience. I come out with huge ears… funny, fantastic clothes, in the literal sense of the word, and various sparkles,” she said of her brief but intense cameo appearances in Peter Jackson movies . She is even forgiven for some flops, like that of Furtive Lives, an eccentricity by Sally Potter in which she played a dancer, and Heaven , a film by Tom Tykwer with disastrous reviews and which has not yet been released in our country. Also somewhat disappointing was Ron Howard ‘s Disappearances . Fortunately, he has also made films that have sounded more, like the interesting Veronica Guerin , or Coffee and cigarettes , with the iconoclastic Jim Jarmusch . Recently, she had to give up her character in Mike Nichols ‘ Closer to give birth to her second child.