Cate Blanchet Great Actress

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Catherine Élise Blanchett (born on May 14, 1969) is an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award-winning Australian actress.











Blanchett
was born in Ivanhoe, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia to Robert
Blanchett, a Texas-born United States Navy Petty Officer who later
worked in advertising, and June, an Australian schoolteacher.











When
Blanchett was 10, she lost her father to a heart attack. She has two
siblings; the elder, Bob, is a computer systems engineer, and her
younger sister, Geneviève, is a theatrical designer. She is of partial
French ancestry.











Blanchett
attended primary school in Melbourne at Ivanhoe East Primary School
before completing secondary education at Methodist Ladies' College,
where she explored her passion for acting.











She studied economics and fine art at the University of Melbourne before leaving Australia to travel.











When she was 18, Blanchett went on a vacation to Egypt.











A
fellow guest at a cheap hotel in Cairo asked if she wanted to be an
extra in a movie, and the next day she found herself in a crowd scene,
cheering for an American boxer who was losing to an Egyptian.











She
walked off from the set. She returned to Australia and later moved to
Sydney to study at the National Institute of Dramatic Art; graduating
in 1992 and beginning her career in the theatre.
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