CATE BLANCHETT (Jasmine) won an Academy Award® in 2004 for her portrayal of Katharine Hepburn in Martin Scorsese’s biopic of Howard Hughes, THE AVIATOR, for which she also won BAFTA and Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards® and received a Golden Globe nomination. In 2008, Blanchett was nominated for two Oscars®; as Best Actress for ELIZABETH: THE GOLDEN AGE and as Best Supporting Actress for I’M NOT THERE, making her only the fifth actor in Academy history to be nominated in both acting categories in the same year. Additionally, she received dual SAG and BAFTA Award nominations, for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress respectively, for ELIZABETH: THE GOLDEN AGE and I’M NOT THERE. For the latter, she also won a Golden Globe Award, an Independent Spirit Award, several critics groups’ awards, and the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the 2007 Venice Film Festival.

She earned her first Oscar® nomination and won BAFTA, Golden Globe Award and London Film Critics Circle Awards for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth I in Shekhar Kapur’s ELIZABETH. She also received Oscar®, Golden Globe and SAG Award® nominations for her performance in NOTES ON A SCANDAL. Additionally, Blanchett has earned Golden Globe nominations for Best Actress for the title role in Joel Schumacher’s VERONICA GUERIN and her work in Barry Levinson’s BANDITS, and, earlier, another BAFTA Award nomination for her performance in Anthony Minghella’s THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY. Blanchett is currently in production in Berlin for George Clooney’s THE MONUMENTS MEN, and will begin production of Disney's live-action CINDERELLA later this year. She has also recently completed production on two Terrence Malick films, KNIGHT OF CUPS and one yet untitled.

Blanchett played the role of Galadriel in Peter Jackson’s THE LORD OF THE RINGS Trilogy and will appear again in the same role in THE HOBBIT Trilogy. Her additional film credits include Joe Wright’s HANNA, Ridley Scott’s ROBIN HOOD, David Fincher’s THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON, Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL, Steven Soderbergh’s THE GOOD GERMAN, BABEL, and Wes Anderson’s THE LIFE AQUATIC WITH STEVE ZISSOU. Among her other film credits are Jim Jarmusch’s COFFEE AND CIGARETTES, earning an Independent Spirit Award nomination, Ron Howard’s THE MISSING, Gillian Armstrong’s CHARLOTTE GRAY, Lasse Hallström’s THE SHIPPING NEWS, Rowan Woods’ LITTLE FISH, Mike Newell’s PUSHING TIN, Oliver Parker’s AN IDEAL HUSBAND, Sam Raimi’s THE GIFT, Sally Potter’s THE MAN WHO CRIED, Bruce Beresford’s PARADISE ROAD, Cherie Nowlan’s THANK GOD HE MET LIZZIE, for which she won both the Australian Film Institute (AFI) and the Sydney Film Critics Awards for Best Supporting Actress, and Gillian Armstrong’s OSCAR AND LUCINDA, opposite Ralph Fiennes, for which she also earned an AFI nomination for Best Actress.>

Blanchett has worked extensively on the stage in Australia and abroad. For the past five years, she has been the co-Artistic Director and co-CEO of the Sydney Theatre Company (STC) alongside Andrew Upton. During this time, Blanchett performed Richard II in the celebrated STC production of “The Wars of The Roses,” Blanche Du Bois in Tennessee Williams’ “A Streetcar Named Desire,” directed by Liv Ullmann, which traveled to much critical acclaim from Sydney to Washington and New York (her performance was considered the ‘Performance of the Year’ by The New York Times) and for which she received the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Actress in a non-resident production. She has also played the part of Yelena in Anton Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya,” in a version by Andrew Upton as part of STC’s 2010 Main Stage season, which was also staged in Washington, DC and at New York City’s Lincoln Center Festival in June 2012 (and for which she also won the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Actress), and most recently Lotte in Botto Strauss’ “Gross und Klein,” which toured extensively throughout Europe in 2012 following a 2011 Sydney season and was part of the London Cultural Olympiad. This summer, Blanchett co-stars with Isabelle Huppert in the Sydney Theatre Company’s adaptation of Jean Genet’s 1947 play, “The Maids,” directed by Benedict Andrews and adapted by Andrew Upton.

Blanchett has been awarded the Centenary Medal for Service to Australian Society through Acting and in 2007 she was named one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People. In 2012, she was awarded the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (one of France's highest cultural honors) by the French Minister for Culture, in recognition of her significant contributions to the arts. She has also received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2008, Blanchett co-Chaired the creative stream of the Prime Minister of Australia’s National 2020 Summit. She is a patron of the Sydney Film Festival and an ambassador for the Australian Conservation Foundation and the Australian Film Institute. She resides in Sydney with her husband and three children.