![]() The two things that keep her anchored are centrally located Down Under: family and theatre. These flick trips have been fast and furious for her ever since "Oscar and Lucinda" (1997). Woody Allen and Terrence Malick, who are poles apart as directors, snapped her up for their most recent "untitled projects" (Allen's is set in Manhattan, Malick's in Austin).Īnd Barbra Streisand is paging her for her next directorial effort, a bio film called "Skinny and Cat." It will examine the improbable, if not impossible, marriage (1939-1942) of Margaret Bourke-White, Life magazine's legendary Bronx-born photographer, and the Georgia cracker who wrote God's Little Acre and Tobacco Road, Erskine Caldwell ( Colin Firth, sans his halting King's English, presumably). That trend will likely continue, at least in movies, for a spell. "It does help when you're always pretending to be from some place else." "Well, I had nothing to do with that," the actress admitted meekly over the phone from her home in Sydney, but she did like the idea of these two worlds colliding for her. They evidently, in the words of one of Hepburn's latter-day queens, "shattered the commandments on the spot," and provided Blanchett with a vivid and colorfully varied pedigree. Navy officer whose ship dropped anchor in the late '60s in Melbourne where his bride-to-be, June Gamble, was a property developer. Yep, Robert DeWitt Blanchett, Jr., her dad, was a U.S. It may surprise you to know that, in addition to being half-Australian, she is half- Texan. ![]() This gift comes from a fiercely focused talent and, just perhaps, an eclectic gene pool. Simply put, she is an artist without boundaries - geographical or, as it turns out, gender - someone who can play anyone anytime anywhere. She was Irina Spalko to Harrison Ford's Indiana Jones, Marian to Russell Crowe's Robin Hood and one of six Bob Dylans (the Oscar-nominated one) in "I'm Not There." Tolkien's Middle-earth for the entire "Lord of the Rings" trilogy as the elf queen with the cascading yellow curls, Galadriel - and she's coming back for seconds via its two-part prequel, "The Hobbit," due out this December and next. In 2006 - when Helen Mirren had all the award bases, from small screen to big, covered as Queen Elizabeth I and II - Blanchett still gave her a run for the Oscar gold and became the only actress ever to win a second Oscar nomination for playing the Tudor queen. Blanchett was made for brown hair, and her latest look is proof.Cate Blanchett is an enigmatic chameleon adept at crossing borders, adapting to the called-for international milieu and making herself right at home all over the globe.Īll angular and incisive, she wafted through the life of Howard Hughes as the young Katharine Hepburn and, astonishingly, won an Academy Award for it. The 49-year-old's new mahogany dye job might take a while for you to get used to, but once you do, you might even forget that she wasn't a brunette all along. She made quite the entrance at the awards ceremony, showing off a black gown featuring high slits on the front and back (giving off a dreamy pants vibe as she walked) and a cutout neckline that featured chunky gemstones. ![]() The Australian actor has long been known for her beachy golden-blonde hair, but Blanchett seemed to have traded in her classic honey hue for a chestnut brown ahead of her latest appearance at the Royal Albert Hall. More eye-catching than the dazzling multi-hued jewels that decorated the dress' neckline, however, was her hair color, a very different shade than what you're used to. Trust me: You won't be able to stop yourself from swooning over Cate Blanchett's brown hair.Īll eyes were on this Ocean's Eight actor as she glided down the red carpet in a stunning Christopher Kane dress at Sun.'s awards show in London. The actor just debuted a big-time makeover on the BAFTAs red carpet that'll make you want to go to the dark side. Cate Blanchett is one of those iconic blondes.
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