Cate Blanchett On Screen And Stage
Blanchett's first leading role on television came with 1994's Heartland, followed by the 1995 miniseries Bordertown. In 1997, she made her feature film debut in a supporting role in the World War II drama Paradise Road. That year, she had her first leading role in Oscar and Lucinda, which earned her an Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Award nomination for Best Actress. In 1998, Blanchett received worldwide attention for playing Queen Elizabeth I of England in the acclaimed drama film Elizabeth, for which she won Best Actress at the Golden Globe Awards, the BAFTA Awards, and was nominated for an Academy Award. Elizabeth and her next film, the 1999 thriller The Talented Mr. Ripley, performed well at the box office although her other 1999 releases, the widely praised An Ideal Husband and the largely panned Pushing Tin, were commercially unsuccessful.
Blanchett found success portraying Galadriel in Peter Jackson's epic fantasy trilogy The Lord of the Rings (2001–2003). She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, among other honors, for portraying Katharine Hepburn in Martin Scorsese's 2004 drama The Aviator, making her the only actor to win an Oscar for portraying another Oscar-winning actor. In 2005, she won the AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for the Australian film Little Fish. Blanchett's performance in the 2006 thriller Notes on a Scandal garnered her another Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. In 2007, she received both Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress Oscar nominations for her roles in Elizabeth: The Golden Age and I'm Not There, becoming one of the few actors to achieve this.
In 2008, Blanchett appeared in Steven Spielberg's action adventure Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and David Fincher's fantasy drama The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. She briefly played Galadriel in The Hobbit trilogy (2012–2014). For her lead performance in Woody Allen's 2013 drama Blue Jasmine, Blanchett won the Golden Globe, the BAFTA Award, the SAG Award, and the Academy Award for Best Actress. She voiced Valka in the 2014 animated fantasy How to Train Your Dragon 2 and its 2019 sequel How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World. In 2015, she received praise for playing Lady Tremaine in Disney's live action film Cinderella, Mary Mapes in Truth, and Carol Aird in Todd Haynes's romantic drama Carol. Cinderella was a box office success and Blanchett earned her seventh Oscar nomination for Carol. Blanchett made her Broadway debut in 2017 with The Present, receiving a Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Play. She also played primary villain Hela in Thor: Ragnarok. The following year, Blanchett starred in Ocean's 8, the all-women spin-off of the Ocean's trilogy, and Eli Roth's The House with a Clock in Its Walls. In 2020, she created and starred in the ABC television miniseries Stateless and portrayed Phyllis Schlafly in the Hulu miniseries Mrs. America, garnering two Emmy Award nominations for the latter. In 2022, Blanchett received her eighth Oscar nomination for her starring role in Tár.
Film
| † | Denotes films that have not yet been released. |
Stage
| Year | Production | Venue | Role(s) | Notes | Refs. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | Electra | National Institute of Dramatic Art | Electra | Directed by Lindy Davies | |
| Top Girls | Sydney Theatre Company | Patient Griselda/Nell/Jeanine | First role at the Sydney Theatre Company | ||
| 1993 | Kafka Dances | Griffin Theatre Company | Bride/Felice | From playwright Timothy Daly. Production was remounted at the Sydney Theatre Company the following year. | |
| Oleanna | Sydney Theatre Company | Carol | Opposite to Geoffrey Rush. | ||
| 1994 | Hamlet | Belvoir St Theatre | Ophelia | Company B Production, directed by Neil Armfield; opposite Geoffrey Rush | |
| 1995 | Sweet Phoebe | Sydney Theatre Company and Warehouse Theatre | Helen | World premier of play written and directed by Michael Gow. | |
| The Tempest | Belvoir St Theatre | Miranda | Company B Production, directed by Neil Armfield | ||
| The Blind Giant is Dancing | Belvoir St Theatre | Rose Draper | Play by Stephen Sewell; Company B production, directed by Neil Armfield; with Hugo Weaving | ||
| 1997 | The Seagull | Belvoir St Theatre | Nina | Directed by Neil Armfield | |
| 1999 | Plenty | The Almeida Season at the Albery Theatre | Susan Traherne | Directed by Jonathan Kent | |
| The Vagina Monologues | The Old Vic | V-Day stage reading. | |||
| 2004 | Hedda Gabler | Sydney Theatre Company | Hedda Gabler | Travelled to Brooklyn Academy of Music's Harvey Theatre, New York for a 4-week run, March 2006 | |
| 2006 | A Kind of Alaska | Sydney Theatre Company | Co-director with Andrew Upton 30 November 2006 − 20 January 2007, Sydney. | ||
| 2007 | Blackbird | Sydney Theatre Company | Directed David Harrower's play; 15 December 2007 − 16 February 2008, Sydney; Travelled to New Zealand International Arts Festival, 23 February 2008 − 2 March 2008; Travelled to Ruhrfestspiele festival, Germany, 8 − 12 May 2008. |
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| 2009 | The War of the Roses | Sydney Theatre Company | Richard II/Lady Anne | Directed by Benedict Andrews. Part of the Sydney Festival 2009 | |
| A Streetcar Named Desire | Sydney Theatre Company | Blanche DuBois | Directed by Liv Ullmann; opposite Joel Edgerton; Travelled to John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., 29 October – 21 November 2009; Travelled to Brooklyn Academy of Music's Harvey Theatre, New York, 27 November – 20 December 2009 | ||
| 2011 | Uncle Vanya | Sydney Theatre Company | Yelena | Adaptation by Andrew Upton; opposite Richard Roxburgh, John Bell, and Hugo Weaving; Travelled to John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D. C., 4–27 August 2011; Travelled to Lincoln Center Festival, New York, 19–28 July 2012 | |
| Gross und Klein | Sydney Theatre Company | Lotte | Directed by Benedict Andrews; new translation by Martin Crimp; co-commissioned by the Barbican Centre; Travelled to London 2012 Festival, Théâtre de la Ville, Vienna Festival, and Ruhrfestspiele. | ||
| 2013 | The Maids | Sydney Theatre Company | Claire | Directed by Benedict Andrews; opposite Isabelle Huppert as Solange, Elizabeth Debicki as Madame; travelled to New York City Center, part of Lincoln Center Festival, New York, 6–16 August 2014. | |
| 2015 | The Present | Sydney Theatre Company | Anna Petrovna | Directed by John Crowley. Play adaptation by Andrew Upton, inspired by Anton Chekhov's Platonov; with Richard Roxburgh. Sydney Theatre Company, 4 August – 19 September | |
| 2017 | The Present | Ethel Barrymore Theatre | Anna Petrovna | Broadway debut. | |
| 2019 | When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other | Royal National Theatre | Woman | National Theatre debut. Written by Martin Crimp, directed by Katie Mitchell. Opposite Stephen Dillane. |
Television
| Year(s) | Title | Role(s) | Notes | Refs. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | Police Rescue | Mrs. Haines | Episode: "The Loaded Boy" | |
| 1994 | Police Rescue | Vivian | TV movie | |
| Heartland | Elizabeth Ashton | 12 episodes, also known as Burned Bridge | ||
| G.P. | Janie Morris | Episode: "Natural Selection" | ||
| 1995 | Bordertown | Bianca | 10 episodes | |
| 2012 | Family Guy | Penelope (voice) | Episode: "Mr. and Mrs. Stewie" | |
| Queen Elizabeth II (voice) | Episode: "Family Guy Viewer Mail 2" | |||
| 2014 | Rake | Clarice Greene | 3 episodes | |
| 2019–2022 | Documentary Now! | Izabella Barta | Episode: "Waiting for the Artist" | |
| Alice | Episode: "Two Hairdressers in Bagglyport" | |||
| 2020 | Stateless | Pat Masters | 6 episodes; also co-creator and executive producer | |
| Mrs. America | Phyllis Schlafly | 9 episodes; also executive producer | ||
| The Simpsons | Elaine Wolff (voice) | Episode: "The Way of the Dog" | ||
| Homemade | Narrator (voice) | Episode: "Ride It Out" | ||
| 2021 | Staged | Cate Blanchett | Episode: "The Loo Recluse" | |
| 2022 | Ukraine: Life Under Attack: Dispatches | Narrator (voice) | Documentary; also executive producer | |
| 2023 | What If...? | Hela (voice) | 3 episodes | |
| 2024 | Disclaimer | Catherine Ravenscroft | Upcoming miniseries; also executive producer |
Music videos
| Year | Title | Performer(s) | Refs. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | "The Spoils" | Massive Attack | |
| 2023 | "The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte" | Sparks |