Cate Blanchett is an Academy Award winning Australian actress. She has appeared in over 50 films in a career spanning over two decades, and has won three Golden Globes and three BAFTA Awards besides her two Oscars. Blanchett started out in theatre, garnering praise from all quarters through her performances in plays like Oleanna, Electra and Kafka Dances before foraying into television and subsequently Hollywood, with the 1997 war film Paradise Road. In the same year, she landed her first leading role in the romantic drama Oscar and Lucinda (1997), which earned her an Australian Film Institute Awards nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a leading role. Blanchett was catapulted to international stardom in 1998, when she essayed the role of Elizabeth I of England in the biographical film Elizabeth. Her performance in the film earned Blanchett her maiden Golden Globe Award and BAFTA Award, and an Oscar nomination for Best Actress in a Leading Role. In the years that followed, the actress continued to enjoy critical acclaim and commercial success courtesy of films like The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (2001-2003), Coffee and Cigarettes (2003) and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004). In 2004, Blanchett portrayed Katharine Hepburn in the biographical drama The Aviator, which earned her an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and a BAFTA Award that year. In the subsequent years,

Blanchett worked with some of the most eminent directors of Hollywood: with Alejandro Inarritu in Babel (2006), Steven Spielberg`s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008), David Fincher`s romantic fantasy drama The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), Ridley Scott`s epic war drama Robin Hood (2010) and Woody Allen`s black comedy-drama Blue Jasmine (2013). Her portrayal of Jasmine French in Blue Jasmine earned Blanchett an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role that year besides a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Award. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013), Carol (2015), Manifesto (2015), Song to Song (2017) and the Marvel superhero film Thor: Ragnarok (2017) are some of Blanchett`s notable recent roles. Other significant acting credits include Veronica Guerin (2003), I`m Not There (2007), The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012), Knight of Cups (2015), Truth (2015), Ocean`s 8 (2018) The House with a Clock in its Wall (2018), Mowgli (2018) and How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019).