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Catherine Élise "Cate" Blanchett〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cate Blanchett biography - AllMovie )〕 (; born 14 May 1969) is an Australian actress and theatre director. She has received critical acclaim and many accolades, including two Academy Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and three British Academy Awards. Blanchett came to international attention for her role as Elizabeth I of England in Shekhar Kapur's 1998 film ''Elizabeth'', for which she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress, the Golden Globe Award, and earned her first Academy Award for Best Actress nomination. Her portrayal of Katharine Hepburn in Martin Scorsese's 2004 film ''The Aviator'' brought her critical acclaim and many accolades, including the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, making her the only actor to win an Oscar for portraying another Oscar-winning actor. In 2013, she starred as Jasmine French in Woody Allen's ''Blue Jasmine'', for which she won numerous accolades including the Academy Award for Best Actress. Blanchett is one of only five actors, and the only actress, to receive Academy Award nominations for portraying the same role in two films, as well as the only Australian to win two acting Oscars. A six-time Oscar nominee, she has also received nominations for ''Notes on a Scandal'' (2006), ''Elizabeth: The Golden Age'' (2007) and ''I'm Not There'' (2007). Her other notable films include ''The Talented Mr. Ripley'' (1999), Peter Jackson's ''The Lord of the Rings'' trilogy (2001–03) and ''The Hobbit'' trilogy (2012–14), ''Babel'' (2006), ''The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'' (2008), ''How to Train Your Dragon 2'' (2014), ''Cinderella'' (2015), and ''Carol'' (2015). Blanchett has also had an extensive career on stage and is a four-time Helpmann Award winner for Best Female Actor in a Play. Her earlier roles include the title role in ''Electra'' at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (1992), Ophelia in ''Hamlet'' at the Belvoir St Theatre in Sydney (1994), Susan in ''Plenty'' in the West End (1999), and the title role in ''Hedda Gabler'' with the Sydney Theatre Company (2004). From 2008 to 2013, she and her husband Andrew Upton were co-CEOs and artistic directors of the Sydney Theatre Company. Her other roles on stage include Blanche DuBois in ''A Streetcar Named Desire'' in Sydney, New York at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and Washington D.C. at the Kennedy Center (2009), Yelena in ''Uncle Vanya'' in Sydney, Washington D.C. at the Kennedy Center and New York at Lincoln Center (2011), and Claire in ''The Maids'' in Sydney (2013) and New York at Lincoln Center (2014). Blanchett has been awarded the Centenary Medal for Service to Australian Society by the Australian government. She was appointed Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government in 2012. She has been presented with a Doctor of Letters from University of Sydney, University of New South Wales, and Macquarie University in recognition of her extraordinary contribution to the arts, philanthropy and the community. In 2015, she received the British Film Institute Fellowship in recognition of her outstanding contribution to film. She will receive the Museum of Modern Art's Film Benefit honour in November 2015. == Early life == Blanchett was born on 14 May 1969 in the Melbourne suburb of Ivanhoe. She is the middle of three children, with an older brother, who is a computer systems engineer, and a younger sister, who works as a theatrical designer. Her Australian mother, June (née Gamble), worked as a property developer and teacher, and her father, Robert DeWitt Blanchett, Jr., a Texas native, was a United States Navy petty officer who later worked as an advertising executive. The two met when Blanchett's father's ship broke down in Melbourne.〔 When Blanchett was ten, her father died of a heart attack, leaving her mother to raise the family on her own.〔 Blanchett's ancestry includes English, some Scottish, and remote French.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cate Blanchett - Celebrity Ethnicity )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cate Blanchett’s Surprising Spy History )〕 Blanchett has described herself as being "part extrovert, part wallflower" during childhood.〔 She had a penchant for dressing in masculine clothing, and went through goth and punk phases during her teenaged years, shaving her head at one point.〔 She attended primary school in Melbourne at Ivanhoe East Primary School; For her secondary education, she attended Ivanhoe Girls' Grammar School and then Methodist Ladies' College, where she explored her passion for the performing arts.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Famous alumni on Latham's hit list )〕 She studied economics and fine arts at the University of Melbourne but dropped out after one year to travel overseas. While in Egypt, Blanchett was asked to be an extra as an American cheerleader in an Egyptian boxing movie, ''Kaboria'', and in need of money, she accepted.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cate Blanchett - Biography )〕 Upon her return to Australia she moved to Sydney and enrolled in the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) to pursue an acting career.〔 She graduated from NIDA in 1992.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cate Blanchett」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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