What is Cate Blanchett Net Worth and Salary?
Cate Blanchett is a highly rated Australian actress who has a net worth of $95 million. She is well known for her various roles in independent and mainstream films. Between August 2017 and August 2018, Cate earned $13 million, which was enough to make her one of the top 10 highest-paid actresses in the world.
Youth
Cate Blanchett was born on May 14, 1969 in Melbourne, Australia. Cate’s mother was a real estate developer and her father was a US Navy officer. Cate’s parents met when his ship was briefly stationed in Melbourne. Unfortunately, her father died of a heart attack when Cate was only 10 years old. After high school, he studied economics and fine arts at the University of Melbourne, but dropped out after a year to travel the world. While in Egypt, he was asked to work as an extra in the Egyptian boxing movie “Kaboria”. After her travels, she moved to Sydney and enrolled at the National Institute of Dramatic Art, graduating in 1992 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts.
Career in acting
Cate’s acting career began on the Sydney stage in David Mamet’s play ‘Oleanna’ in 1992. She landed her first feature film role in 1997 when she played a supporting role in ‘Paradise Road’. Cate went on to have an incredibly successful and prolific career. Her first leading role was in the 1997 film Oscar and Lucinda. She received dozens of awards for her critically acclaimed role as Queen Elizabeth I in the 1998 film Elizabeth. This film helped catapult her to stardom. From this moment on, the film roles began to pour in. In 1999, Cate starred alongside Matt Damon in The Talented Mr. Ripley, for which she received her second BAFTA nomination.
Blanchett received dozens of new fans and accolades when she starred in “The Lord of the Rings” in all three films. In 2005, she eventually won her first Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role in The Aviator. She then starred in the critically acclaimed Little Fish, which was nominated for 13 Australian Film Institute Awards. Blanchett next appeared in David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, where she co-starred with Brad Pitt for the second time. In 2006, Blanchett starred in Babel, which received seven Academy Award nominations. Blanchett found herself in Time Magazine’s 2007 list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Later that year she reprized her role as Queen Elizabeth I in the sequel: “Elizabeth: The Golden Age” and received two Oscar nominations for her performance. She also appeared in “I’m Not There” that year. In 2008, she was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2009, Blanchett returned to the stage when she starred in the Sydney Theater Company’s production of A Streetcar Named Desire, for which she received high praise and won the Sydney Theater Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role.
In 2010, he appeared in Ridley Scott’s war film ‘Robin Hood’. He then took to the stage and appeared in two Sydney Theater Company productions, winning several awards. In 2013, Blanchett starred in Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine. “. Her performance earned her over 40 industry and critical awards, including the Academy Award for Best Actress. In 2015, Blanchett starred in five films: “Knight of Cups”, “Cinderella”, “Carol”, “Truth” and “Manifesto”.
In 2017, she made another appearance on the Sydney Theater Company stage when she starred in ‘The Present’. The play transferred to Broadway later that year, marking its Broadway debut. Her performance was well received and earned her a Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Play, along with two Drama League Award nominations. She next portrayed the villainous Hela in Marvel’s Thor: Ragnarok, directed by Taika Waititi. In 2018, she starred in Ocean’s 8, the all-female spin-off of the Ocean’s Eleven franchise. That year, Forbes estimated her annual earnings at around $12.5 million, making her the eighth highest-paid actress in the world. In 2019, he starred in Where’d You Go,
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In 2020, Blanchett made a transition to the small screen when she starred in two miniseries, the Australian drama series ‘Stateless’ and the FX/Hulu historical drama miniseries ‘Mrs. America,” in which she plays conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly. The series debuted in the US in April 2020 to critical acclaim. Blanchett was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Actress in a Limited Series for her role, losing to Regina King.
Personal life
Cate has been married to Australian playwright Andrew Upton since 1997. Together they have three children. For five years, the couple were co-artistic directors of the Sydney Theater Companies.
immobility
The families base was in Brighton, England for ten years before moving back to their native Australia in 2006. After moving to Sydney, they paid $7 million for a mansion in the waterfront suburbs north. They later spent another $5 million to own a neighboring property and then renovate the combined double lot. They put the house up for sale in September 2015 for $14.7 million. Two years later, they sold the house for $13 million. Here’s a video tour of the property since it was put on the market a few years later to another owner:
They decided to leave Australia. Their time as co-creative directors of the Sydney Theater Company ended in 2015. They later moved to England, where they paid $4 million for a house in East Sussex.
Activism
Blanchett has been vocal over the years about her strong support for feminism and women’s rights. Blanchett is a patron and ambassador for the Australian Film Institute and its academy, the Australian Academy of Film and Television Arts. Cate is also a patron of the Sydney Film Festival and the development charity SolorAid. He joined the Climate Project in 2006 and in 2007 became an ambassador for the Australian Conservation Foundation. She was named an honorary lifetime member of the foundation in 2012. In 2014, Blanchett participated in the Green Carpet Challenge. In 2016, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees announced that it had appointed Blanchett as a Global Goodwill Ambassador.
