Cate Blanchett Archives

Cate Blanchett and director husband Andrew Upton pose at the official launch of the Sydney Theatre Company’s “2009 Main Stage Season” at the Wharf Restaurant on Monday in Sydney, Australia. (The couple currently serve as artistic directors of STC.)

The forthcoming Australian production of Tennessee Williams‘ A Streetcar Named Desire will hit U.S. theaters late next year. The play directed by Liv Ullmann and starring Cate as faded Southern rose Blanche DuBois, will travel to the U.S. late next year. You can catch performances of Streetcar at Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Harvey Theater during Nov. 27-Dec. 20. 2009.

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Cate Blanchett (in Armani) joins director husband Andrew Upton and Australian playwright and director Michael Gow at the 2008 Helpmann Awards at Star City Casino on Monday in Sydney, Australia.

The Helpmanns is the Aussie equivalent to Broadway’s Tony Awards. As Sydney Theatre Company directors, Cate and Andrew presented the awards, named in honor of the late Australian dancer, actor, director and choreographer Sir Robert Helpmann.

The four young actors who share the role of Billy Elliot (Lochlan Denholm, Nick Twiney, Rarmian Newton and Rhys Kosakowski) took the stage together last night after winning Best Actor.

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Cate Blanchett stays classic in black at an exhibition preview of ‘Surviving Australia, Surprising Animal Secrets’ at the Australian Museum on Thursday in Sydney, Australia.

Cate recently talked about Steven Spielberg giving her children a chance to step behind the camera and direct her in the latest Indiana Jones movie.

“My kids were so welcome on set. In fact, Steven Spielberg even let them direct me one day - they would call ‘Action!’ and they were highly critical,” she told OK! Magazine.

“Steve [Spielberg] was so welcoming to my family. And that was really special.”

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Cate Blanchett gets her caffeine fix at her Double Bay local cafe in Sydney, Australia early Wednesday morning.

On Monday, the 38-year-old Aussie actress (in some very colorful leggings) and her director husband Andrew Upton took their two oldest sons Dashiell John, 6, and Roman Robert, 4, to the Australian premiere of the animated flick, Kung Fu Panda, in Sydney. Their youngest son, Ignatius Martin, must have napped this one out! He turns two months on Friday.

Kung Fu Panda is currently in U.S. theaters now but doesn’t open in Australia until Thursday, June 26.

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Here’s the trailer for Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett’s new film, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

To refresh your memory, 80-year-old Benjamin Button (Pitt), is born aging backwards, causing complications when he falls in love with a 30-year-old woman (Blanchett).

Director David Fincher said, “It’s dark, it’s romantic, and it also deals with mortality in a pretty unflattering way. Button is born in 1919 - with the film itself beginning in World War I, traveling around the world and carrying on all the way through to the year 2000.”

Watch the “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” Movie Trailer below! The film opens on Friday, December 19.

Cate Blanchett wears some killer heels as she arrives for the Australian premiere of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull in Sydney on Wednesday.

“I knew this film was popular … but I didn’t realize just how big the fan base was before the opening at Cannes,” Cate said at the premiere.

The 39-year-old actress also talked about some difficulties while shooting the film. “It sounds shallow, but trying to keep every single hair in place while sword fighting in a military duck (amphibious vehicle) with Shia LaBeouf - that was pretty difficult.”

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Cate Blanchett is gorgeous in gray Armani at the premiere of her new film, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull during the 2008 Cannes Film Festival on Sunday in Cannes, southern France.

So far, Indiana Jones has garnered a mediocre 67% on RottenTomatoes.com. Here are some review snippets:

Time: “There are scenes in the new movie that seem like stretching exercises at a retirement home; there are garrulous stretches, and even the title seems a few words too long. But once it gets going, Crystal Skull delivers smart, robust, familiar entertainment.”

Entertainment Weekly: “There’s joy and a middle-aged playfulness to the best of Steven Spielberg’s unlikely sequel.”

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Cate Blanchett is a vision in purple at the Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull photocall at the Palais des Festivals during the 2008 Cannes Film Festival on Sunday in Cannes, France.

Pictured in the group photo below (left to right): British actor Jim Broadbent, American actress Karen Allen, British actors Ray Winstone and John Hurt, American actor Shia Labeouf, American producer George Lucas, American director Steven Spielberg, American actor Harrison Ford and Australian actress Cate Blanchett

Indiana Jones rolls into theaters everywhere this Thursday, May 22. Here are some early reviews:

Variety: “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull begins with an actual big bang, then gradually slides toward a ho-hum midsection before literally taking off for an uplifting finish.”

UK’s Telegraph: “With a cast designed to appeal to all ages, an overstuffed plot and an aging action hero, it looks like a film born of commercial calculation rather than a story that needed to be told.”

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