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Cate Blanchett

Character

Galadriel

Gender

Female

Date of Birth

May 14, 1969

Date of Death

N/A

Origin

Melbourne, Australia

Nationality

Australian

IMDb profile

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Cate Blanchett is a prominent Australian actress who plays Galadriel in Peter Jackson's films.

Early LifeEdit

Blanchett was born in Melbourne, Victoria in the suburb of Ivanhoe. Her mother, June (née Gamble), was an Australian property developer and teacher, and her father, Robert DeWitt Blanchett, Jr., was a Texas native who was a US Navy Petty Officer and later worked as an advertising executive. The two met while Blanchett's father's ship, USS Arneb, was in Melbourne. When Blanchett was ten, she lost her father to a heart attack. She has two siblings; her older brother, Bob, is a computer systems engineer, and her younger sister, Genevieve, worked as a theatrical designer and received her Bachelor of Design in Architecture in April 2008.

CareerEdit

Blanchett is famous for portraying the Elf, Galadriel, in Peter Jackson's the The Lord of the Rings movies, but also is famous for portraying other characters in many other films for example, Elizabeth: The Golden Age and Irina Spalko in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull in 2008.

She finished filming Galadriel's scenes in just a month during The Lord of the Rings production. Cate also has green eyes as seen in the Lord of the Rings films. Blanchett's other films include Babel (2006), Notes on a Scandal (2006), Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008), and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008). Blanchett collaborated with director Peter Jackson again for The Hobbit (2012).