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Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The
Babel
Biography:
Cate Blanchett graduated from Australia's National Institute of
Dramatic Art in 1992 and, in a little over a year, had won both
critical and popular acclaim. On graduating from NIDA, she joined the
Sydney Theatre Company's production of 'Caryl Churchill's ...(read more)
Cate Blanchett graduated from Australia's National Institute of
Dramatic Art in 1992 and, in a little over a year, had won both
critical and popular acclaim. On graduating from NIDA, she joined the
Sydney Theatre Company's production of 'Caryl Churchill's "Top Girls", then
played Felice Bauer, the bride, in 'Timothy Daly (I)'s "Kafka Dances", winning
the 1993 Newcomer Award from the Sydney Theatre Critics Circle for her
performance. From there, Blanchett moved to the role of Carol in
'David Mamet's searing polemic "Oleanna", also for the Sydney Theatre
Company, and won the Rosemont Best Actress Award, her second award that
year. She then co-starred in the ABC Television's prime time drama
"Heartland" (1994) (mini) , again winning critical acclaim. In 1995, she was nominated for
Best Female Performance for her role as Ophelia in the Belvoir Street
Theatre Company's production of "Hamlet". Other theatre credits include
Helen in the Sydney Theatre Company's "Sweet Phoebe", Miranda in "The
Tempest" and Rose in "The Blind Giant is Dancing", both for the Belvoir
Street Theatre Company. In other television roles, Blanchett starred as
Bianca in ABC's "Bordertown" (1995) (mini) , as Janie Morris in "G.P." (1989) and in ABC's
popular series Police Rescue (1994) . She made her feature film debut in Paradise Road (1997) ,
and, in 1998, she played the title character in Elizabeth (1998)
, winning numerous awards for her performance, including the Golden
Globe for Best Actress in a Drama. Cate was also nominated for an
Academy Award for the role but lost out to 'Gwyneth Paltrow' . 2001 was a
particularly busy year, with starring roles in Bandits (2001) , Shipping News, The (2001) ,
Charlotte Gray (2001) and playing Elf Queen Galadriel in the "Lord Of The Rings"
trilogy.
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Quotes:
* "If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously!"
* When asked what colour her hair is: "Look, it's one of the great
mysteries of the world, I cannot answer that question. I think I'm
vaguely blonde. To be perfectly frank, I don't know."
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* "If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously!"
* When asked what colour her hair is: "Look, it's one of the great
mysteries of the world, I cannot answer that question. I think I'm
vaguely blonde. To be perfectly frank, I don't know."
* When asked if she has ever appeared in "Neighbours" (1985) : "Absolutely not. I'm an
actress."
* On the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy" "I had never done anything with
blue screen before, or prosthetics, or anything like that. "Lord of the
Rings" was like stepping into a videogame for me. It was another world
completely. But, to be honest, I basically did it so that I could have
the ears. I thought they would really work with my bare head."
* "If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my
entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without
the disappointment - that would be the perfect state."
* It's part of my job. You can't play Veronica Guerin [puts on heavy
Strine] sounding like this. It just wouldn't wash. But what I find
fascinating about doing an accent - unless it's a farce - is that it's
not slapped on. [on doing many accents]
* "I loved making it, I had a ball - cowboys and Indians. This is the
thing, I love doing things which I'd never envisaged before. And so
getting me on the back of a horse, with 'Tommy Lee Jones' and shooting guns and
chasing Indians, it's just not something that I would have expected
myself to be doing." [On working with 'Ron Howard (I)' in Missing, The (2003/I) .]
* The more you do it, the more you learn to concentrate, as a child does,
incredibly intensively and then you sort of have to relax. I remember
the first film I did, the lead actor would in between scenes be reading
a newspaper or sleeping and I'd think, "How can you do that?"
* Thank you. I so didn't expected this. I wore a really tight dress
that's very ungracious walking up those stairs. Thank you very much, I
sort of don't know where to begin. Playing 'Katharine Hepburn' , I absolutely did
not expect to be standing here in front of you all. But Hepburn aside,
I actually would like to say, as an actor coming from another country
to this country, I am so astounded and amazed, and grateful, at the
power of the SAG union and what it does for its members. And I hope
that other countries, mine own included, you know, is inspired by that
- I think it's incredible. (SAG acceptance speech Feb. 5, 2005)
* On her disgust of how so many of her Hollywood peers have succumbed to
using face-paralyzing Botox: "It's not just women on film, 18-year-old
girls feel pressure to do preventative injecting. I see someone's face,
someone's body who'd had children and I think they're the song lines of
your experience, and why would you want to eradicate that? I look at
people sort of entombing themselves and all you see is their little pin
holes of terror... and you think, just live your life, death is not
going to be any easier just because your face can't move."
* "I'm one of those strange beasts who really likes a corset."
* "You know, when you see yourself on a big screen, I tend to watch from
behind my hands. There is absolutely the regret. You always get that at
the end of every project. That's what's great about theater: at least
every night you get the chance to go out and re-offend. I'm endlessly
disappointed, which is what propels me into the next project, probably,
not to repair the damage but to kind of hopefully keep developing.
Otherwise there's no reason to keep doing it, is there?"
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Posted on 04/02/08 05:39 PM.
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