About this Artist

Cate Blanchett is a multi-award-winning actor and producer, acclaimed for her work on stage and screen. Her many diverse film credits include Elizabeth, The Aviator, Blue Jamine, Carol and Tár, in which she played conductor Lydia Tár and worked closely with the Dresdner Philharmonie, winning the BAFTA, Golden Globe, and Critics’ Choice Awards for Best Actress, along with nominations for the Academy Award and Screen Actors Guild Award. Todd Field’s film received multiple nominations at all major ceremonies, including the Academy Awards, where it was recognised in six categories, including Best Picture. From 2008 to 2013, Blanchett served alongside Andrew Upton as co-Artistic Director and co-CEO of Sydney Theatre Company (STC), producing 16 shows annually across four stages, many of which toured internationally. Among her celebrated performances at the company were A Streetcar Named Desire, Uncle Vanya, The War of the Roses, The Maids, Gross und Klein and The Present, the latter earning her a Tony nomination. Other notable productions included Steven Soderbergh’s Tot Mom, The Secret River, works by Kip Williams, and Blackbird and The Year of Magical Thinking, both of which she directed. Blanchett was most recently on stage at London’s Barbican in The Seagull and has previously performed at the UK’s National Theatre in When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other. She has since joined the National Theatre’s board. She also co-runs her own production company, Dirty Films, is a Global Goodwill Ambassador for the UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, is a member of The Earthshot Prize Council, and Ambassador for the Wakehurst Millennium Seed Bank.