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July 30, 2008: "Cate Blanchett Wears $11,000 Pair of Roger Vivier Shoes To Awards Show"
Actress Cate Blanchett was dressed up from the top of her head to the tip of her shoes for the Helpmann Awards in Australia this week. It was her shoes, however, that drew the most attention. Blanchett was wearing a pair of limited edition Roger Vivier Limelight American platform heels with sequined star detail and Swarovski crystal buckles. The fanciest thing about the shoes - the price tag. They cost an amazing $11,000. Roger Vivier, a French brand, is known for its pricey buckled shoes, which can range anywhere from $396 for signature flats to four digits for boots. *** July 5, 2008: "Baby addict Cate Blanchett" Cate Blanchett says having children is "addictive". The 'I'm Not There' actress recently gave birth to third son Ignatius Martin with her husband Andrew Upton and says the couple can't wait to further expand their brood. Cate said: "Having kids is very addictive, if you can, if you're able to and it's your choice and you've got a supportive relationship." The actress recently revealed becoming a mother has made her a better person and improved her life considerably. She said: "You realise how much love you're actually capable of. It's like more doors open in your personality that you didn't even realise were there. "It's a trip, being a parent, a privilege - even though it means you get a lot less sleep!" Cate and Andrew - who have been married for 10 years - are based in Australia, where they also work as co-directors of the Sydney Theatre Company.a *** April 14, 2008: "Cate Blanchett has third baby" Oscar-winning Australian actress Cate Blanchett has given birth to her third child in Sydney, a spokesman said on Monday. Blanchett, 38, and her playwright husband Andrew Upton welcomed Ignatius Martin Upton into the world on Sunday, a spokesman for the Sydney Theatre Company told Reuters. "The baby was born yesterday. Both are doing well," he said. Media reports said he weighed 3.6kg, or just under eight pounds. Blanchett and Upton, joint artistic directors of the theatre company, already have two sons: Dashiell John, aged six, and Roman Robert, aged three. Blanchett won an Oscar in 2005 for playing Katharine Hepburn in "The Aviator." She was nominated this year for her lead role in "Elizabeth: The Golden Age" and for her supporting turn as Bob Dylan in "I'm Not There." She returns to theaters next month in "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," the fourth installment of the Harrison Ford adventure series. *** Actress Cate Blanchett picture(s)/pic(s), wallpaper and photo gallery. NewS And Gossip Birth name: Catherine Elise Blanchett. Born: May 14, 1969 Melbourne, Australia. Height: 5' 8½" (1.74 m). Spouse(s): -Andrew Upton (29 December 1997 - present) they have two children. Children: -Dashiell John Upton (b.2001). -Roman Robert Upton (b.2004). Cate Blanchett biography (bio): Catherine Elise Blanchett is better known as Cate Blanchett, is an Academy Award- and Golden Globe Award-winning Australian actress. She has also won various awards, most notably including two SAGs and two BAFTAs, making her one of a few actors who won all four major motion picture acting awards. Blanchett made her debut success in the 1998 film Elizabeth, directed by Shekhar Kapur, in which she played Elizabeth I of England. She is also known for her portrayals in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy as the High elf queen Galadriel and in The Aviator as Katharine Hepburn, the latter brought her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Early life and education: Blanchett was born in Ivanhoe, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, daughter of June, an Australian property developer and teacher, and Robert Blanchett, a Texas-born United States Navy Petty Officer who met Blanchett's mother while stationed in Melbourne and later worked as an advertising executive. When Blanchett was 10, she lost her father to a heart attack. She has described herself during childhood as "part extrovert, part wallflower". She has two siblings; the older brother, Bob, is a computer systems engineer, and her younger sister, Geneviève, is a theatrical designer. 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. Career: Her first major stage role was opposite Geoffrey Rush in the 1993 David Mamet play Oleanna. She also appeared as Ophelia in an acclaimed 1994–95 Company B production of Hamlet, directed by Neil Armfield, starring Rush and Richard Roxburgh. Blanchett appeared in the mini-series Heartland opposite Ernie Dingo, the mini-series Bordertown and in the Police Rescue episode, "The Loaded Boy". She made her Australian film debut in the 1994 feature film of Police Rescue as a teacher taken hostage by armed bandits. Blanchett made her international film debut as an Australian nurse captured by the Japanese in a production of Paradise Road directed by Bruce Beresford, co-starring Glenn Close and Frances McDormand. Blanchett's first high-profile role was as Elizabeth I of England in the 1998 movie Elizabeth. This role earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress, losing to Gwyneth Paltrow for Shakespeare in Love. However, Blanchett's performance won her a British Academy (BAFTA) Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama. The following year, Blanchett was nominated for another BAFTA Award for her supporting role in The Talented Mr. Ripley. She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2005 for playing Katharine Hepburn in Martin Scorsese's The Aviator. This made Blanchett the first person ever to garner an Academy Award for playing a previous Oscar-winning actor/actress. Already an acclaimed actress, Blanchett received a host of new fans when she appeared in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings movies. She played the role of the High Elf Queen Galadriel in all three films, which hold the record as the highest grossing film trilogy of all time. In 2006 she starred in both Babel opposite Brad Pitt, and Notes on a Scandal playing Sheba Hart opposite Dame Judi Dench. Dench won the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for playing Elizabeth I, the same year Blanchett lost for playing the same historical figure, albeit in a different category. She received her third Academy Award nomination for her performance in the film (Dench was also Oscar nominated). Blanchett reprised her role as Elizabeth I in the sequel to Elizabeth titled Elizabeth: the Golden Age. Blanchett works as the face of SK-II, the luxury skin care brand owned by Procter & Gamble. In 2007, Blanchett was listed among Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in The World. Also in 2007, Blanchett was named one of the most successful actresses by Forbes. Blanchett is set to star as one of six incarnations of Bob Dylan in the feature film I'm Not There. As of 2008, she and her husband will commence three-year contracts as artistic co-directors of the Sydney Theatre Company. The contracts include a clause that will allow either of them to take three months out each year to pursue other activities. Blanchett also stars in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Personal life: Blanchett's husband is playwright and screenwriter Andrew Upton, whom she met in 1996 while she was performing in a production of The Seagull. They were married the following year 1997. It was not love at first sight, however. "He thought I was aloof and I thought he was arrogant," Blanchett later remarked. "It just shows you how wrong you can be. But once he kissed me that was that." The two were married on December 29, 1997. Their first child, Dashiell John, was born on December 3, 2001; their second child, Roman Robert, was born on April 23, 2004. After making England her main family home for most of the early 2000s, she and her husband returned to their native Australia. In 2006, Blanchett said in a Vogue interview of November 2006: " Andrew and I realized how much Australia meant to us. We saw the theatre community in Sydney and we felt, well, we know you all; we have worked with many of you. We have tried to live a few other places, but something really hit us in the gut. It's just a feeling about what home is. It became clear to us, particularly after the children were born, that family and the theatrical community in Australia were a large part of who we are. " In 2006 a portrait of Cate Blanchett and family painted by McLean Edwards was a finalist in the Archibald Prize. The prize is awarded for the "best portrait painting preferentially of some man or woman distinguished in Art, Letters, Science or Politics". Blanchett said she has a crush for Harrison Ford since her teenage years and finds him to be an attractive star. |