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By winning the Oscar for her portrayal of Katharine Hepburn, she became the first person to give an Oscar-winning portrayal of a previous Oscar winner.

After completing work on the Lord of the Rings trilogy in the role of Galadriel, she kept and bronzed her elf ear prosthetics.

In an interview she gave to Fox Television Network, she admitted blushingly that she had accepted the role of Galadriel, the Elf Queen, in the Lord of the Rings trilogy because she always wanted to appear in a movie wearing pointed ears.

Is only the sixth actress to win both leading and supporting actress Oscars. The other five are Maggie Smith, Meryl Streep, Jessica Lange, Helen Hayes and Ingrid Bergman.

Holds the record as the only Australian actress to win two Academy Awards.

In 2008, although she was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar for her performance in Elizabeth: La edad de oro (2007), she publicly declared that she had voted for Marion Cotillard in La Vie En Rose (2007), and described her performance as Édith Piaf as "astonishing and inspiring". When Cotillard was announced as the winner, Blanchett was visibly happy for her win. In 2012, Blanchett wrote an op-ed for Variety praising Cotillard's performance in Metal y hueso (2012).

Adopted her fourth child, a daughter named Edith Vivian Patricia Upton on March 6, 2015, with her husband Andrew Upton.

When she was age 18, Cate was on vacation in Egypt. A fellow guest at a cheap hotel in Cairo asked if she wanted to be an extra in a movie, the Egyptian boxing movie Kaboria (1990) [Crabs (1990)], directed by Khairy Beshara. She appeared in three scenes in that movie, in one of them she was dancing to the main song of the movie.

Holds the record for largest "Best Actress" award sweep (42 wins) for her performance as Jasmine French in Jazmín Azul (2013), followed by Helen Mirren (40 wins) for her performance as Queen Elizabeth II in La reina (2006) and Natalie Portman (38 wins) for her performance as Nina Sayers in El cisne negro (2010).

Along with Sir Ian McKellen, she is one of only two actors to appear in all six of Sir Peter Jackson's Middle-earth films: El señor de los anillos: La comunidad del anillo (2001), El señor de los anillos: Las dos torres (2002), El señor de los anillos: El retorno del rey (2003), El Hobbit: Un viaje inesperado (2012), El Hobbit: La desolación de Smaug (2013) and El Hobbit: La batalla de los cinco ejércitos (2014).

She said the pronunciation of her last name accustomed to is 'Blan-CHIT', as opposed to 'Blan-CHET'.

Shaved her head at age 15 and as a result was almost fired from her job at a nursing home.

Good friends with actress Nicole Kidman and Toni Collette.

Her father, (Robert Blanchett) a Texan advertising executive, died of a heart attack when she was ten years old.

Her portrayal of Irina Spalko in Indiana Jones y el reino de la calavera de cristal (2008) is director Steven Spielberg's favorite villain in the Indiana Jones series.

Gave birth to her third child at age 38, a son named Ignatius Martin Upton on April 23, 2008. Child's father is her husband, Andrew Upton.

She was on set for only eight days to shoot her scenes for El Hobbit: Un viaje inesperado (2012) and the two follow-ups.

Accepted the role of Daisy Fuller in El curioso caso de Benjamin Button (2008) after Rachel Weisz backed out, because of scheduling problems.

She has appeared in ten films that have been nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: Elizabeth, la Reina Virgen (1998), El señor de los anillos: La comunidad del anillo (2001), El señor de los anillos: Las dos torres (2002), El señor de los anillos: El retorno del rey (2003), El aviador (2004), Babel (2006), El curioso caso de Benjamin Button (2008), No miren arriba (2021), El callejón de las almas perdidas (2021) and Tár (2022). The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King won in the category.

An avid fan of the horror genre, her particular favorites were the Sherlock Holmes movies with Basil Rathbone, La garra escarlata (1944) being especially memorable. Also includes among her favorites Pesadilla diabólica (1976) and the "Halloween" movie series.

Along with Fay Bainter, Teresa Wright, Barry Fitzgerald, Jessica Lange, Sigourney Weaver, Al Pacino, Holly Hunter, Emma Thompson, Julianne Moore, Jamie Foxx and Scarlett Johansson, she is one of only twelve actors to receive Academy Award nominations in two acting categories in the same year. She was nominated for Best Actress for Elizabeth: La edad de oro (2007) and Best Supporting Actress for Mi historia sin mi (2007) at the 80th Academy Awards in 2008.

Enjoys making lists and crossing items off as she accomplishes them.

She, Linda Hunt and Felicity Huffman are the only performers to be nominated for an Oscar for playing a member of the opposite sex.

Her Texan father, Robert Blanchett, met her mother, June Gamble, in Melbourne, Australia. He decided to marry her and relocate to Australia and raise a family.

Four of her six Oscar nominations are for playing real people (Queen Elizabeth I, Katharine Hepburn and Bob Dylan). The latter two are both Oscar winners themselves.

Blanchett and Kate Winslet have both received their seventh Academy Award nomination in 2016. Winslet for Best Supporting Actress for Steve Jobs (2015), and Blanchett for Best Actress for Carol (2015).

She was awarded the Australian Centenary Medal in the 2001 Queen's New Years Honours List for her services to acting and Australian society.

Gave birth to her first child at age 32, a son named Dashiell John Upton on December 3, 2001. He was named after her husband's favourite author Dashiell Hammett. Child's father is her husband, Andrew Upton.

In 2009, she was among four Oscar-winning Australian actors to be immortalized onto postage stamps in their home country. Each of the actors has two stamps, showing them both in and out of character.

Has played a man three times as Bob Dylan in Mi historia sin mi (2007), Manifesto (2015) and as Richard II on stage with the Sydney Theatre Company.

She and her Atando Cabos (2001) and Escándalo (2006) co-star Dame Judi Dench both received Oscar-nominations for playing Queen Elizabeth I in 1999. Dench won for her supporting role in Shakespeare apasionado (1998) while Blanchett was nominated for Elizabeth, la Reina Virgen (1998).

She was Sir Ridley Scott's original choice for the role of Commander Lewis in Misión Rescate (2015), which she turned down due to a scheduling conflict.

She was considered for the role of Jane Smith in Sr. y Sra. Smith (2005). The role eventually went to Angelina Jolie.

Dedicated her 2014 BAFTA Award to Philip Seymour Hoffman who had recently passed away.

She was Steven Spielberg's first choice for the role of Agatha Lively in Minority report: Sentencia previa (2002). After the death of Stanley Kubrick, he made Inteligencia artificial (2001) his first priority, and she moved onto other projects. She was later able to work with Spielberg in Indiana Jones y el reino de la calavera de cristal (2008).

She is only one of six performers (and the only female) to be nominated for an Oscar twice for playing the same role in two separate films. She was nominated as Elizabeth I in Elizabeth, la Reina Virgen (1998) and Elizabeth: La edad de oro (2007). The other five are Bing Crosby as Father O'Malley in El buen pastor (1944) and Las campanas de Santa María (1945), Peter O'Toole as Henry II in Becket (1964) and El león en invierno (1968), Al Pacino as Michael Corleone in El padrino (1972) and El padrino (parte II) (1974), Paul Newman as Fast Eddie Felson in El audaz (1961) and El color del dinero (1986), and Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa in Rocky (1976) and Creed. Corazón de campeón (2015).

Ranked #45 on EW's The 50 Smartest People in Hollywood. (diciembre de 2007)

She was originally cast as Mrs. Fox in El fantástico Sr. Zorro (2009), but was later replaced by Meryl Streep.

Has an older brother named Bob who works in the computer field, and a younger sister, Genevieve who is a theater designer.

She was the original 'Tim-Tam' girl in the series of commercials promoting the product.

She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Motion Picture at 6712 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on December 5, 2008.

Is the only actress to be nominated and win Oscars for both of the iconoclast New York directors Martin Scorsese and Woody Allen.

Was unknowingly pregnant with her son Roman while portraying the pregnant journalist in La vida acuática con Steve Zissou (2004).

She was originally going to play the role of Anna Cameron in Mike Nichols' romance film Closer. Llevados por el deseo (2004). But because of her second pregnancy she had to drop out, so Julia Roberts was cast instead.

Her acting heroes are Judy Davis, Wendy Hughes, Robert Menzies and Geoffrey Rush.

The eighth highest paid actress of 2017 with $12 million.

In 2007, Forbes magazine estimated her earnings for the year at $13 million.

(December 29, 1997) Married her boyfriend of a year Andrew Upton. They met in 1996 on the set of a television show. The wedding took place in the National Park "Blue Mountains" in New South Wales. She claimed that they didn't take any photographs, because they couldn't afford a photographer, even though she was already a working actress, and in fact, shortly after the wedding, she started filming the title role in Elizabeth, la Reina Virgen (1998).

Five directors cast her more than once in their films: Gillian Armstrong, Shekhar Kapur, Steven Soderbergh, Todd Haynes and Sir Peter Jackson.

Was listed as a potential nominee for the 2008 Razzie Awards (but did not make the final ballot) for her performance as Queen Elizabeth I in Elizabeth: La edad de oro (2007), a performance that earned her another Oscar nomination. Had she earned a Razzie nod, she would have been one of the few actors to have a Razzie and Oscar nomination for the same performance.