Cate Blanchett Biography
After Cate Blanchett studied dance and piano, at the age of 18 years, during a travel in Egypt, she participates in an Arabic film and decides to undertake the actress career. She attends the “Sydney's National Institute of Dramatic Arts” and recites in theater and some television series, till to land on the great screen in 1997 with Paradise Road di Bruce Beresford. Succeeding of critic catches up a good ones and public the successive year with Elizabeth, of Shekhar Kapur, with which she obtains the Golden Globe for the best dramatic actress and a nomination to the Oscar.
In 1999 an ideal husband recites in the cinematographic adaptation of the comedy of Oscar Wilde, next to Rupert Everett and Julianne Moore and has of the secondary roles in the talent of Mr. Ripley di Anthony Minghella and The Man Who Cried - the man who cried of Sally Potter with Christina Ricci and Johnny Depp.
In 2001 she is the star of The Gift, of Sam Raimi and is casted in the Bandits comedy, beside Bruce Willis and Billy Bob Thornton, but both receive a cold acceptance from the public. On the contrary, the trilogy de the Gentleman of Rings of the New Zealand director Peter Jackson, where she interprets Galadriel, is a great success both with the public and the critics. Cate comes moreover a lot appreciated in Charlotte Gray and Heaven and receives nomination to the Golden Globe for a her interpretation in Veronica Guerin - price of the courage of Joel Schumacher. But she truly becomes a celebrity as diva total 2004 happen in, when comes chosen from Martin Scorsese in order to interpret Katharine Hepburn in The Aviator, with which obtains or the Oscar for the besc secondary actress and she also won the IOMA for the same category.
On 2006 Cate Blanchett comes back with Diary of a scandal, of the English director Richard Eyre and Babel staring with Brad Pitt.On 2007 is Intrigue to Berlin, directed by Steven Soderbergh, that it numbers in cast also George Clooney and Tobey Maguire. She has worn the dresses of Queen Elizabeth of England, directed from Shekhar Kapur, in Elizabeth: The Golden Age, sequel of the film has consecrated that it. 3 November 2007 to Australian premiere of Elizabeth: The Golden Age to Sydney, has announced to wait for its third son.
The Australian actress is moreover the only woman of the six actors who interpret Bob Dylan in the film I are not (2007 here), and for this her interpretation has received the Goblet Vixens to 64° the Extension of the cinema of Venice and a Golden Globe.
On Oscar 2008 she receives two nomination, best actress for Elizabeth: The Golden Age, and best actress for I am not (already Goblet here Vixens to Venice), not succeeding but to carry to house not even a statue. 2008 for the best actress not protagonist consoles herself but with the Ioma, always for her extraordinary interpretation in I is not here, thus becoming the first actress to gain two Ioma.
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