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One of the world’s foremost artists, Cate Blanchett is an internationally acclaimed actor, producer, humanitarian and advocate for climate solutions.

Acting credits for film include roles in Tár, Nightmare Alley, Don’t Look Up, Ocean’s 8, Thor: Ragnorok, Carol, Blue Jasmine, I’m Not There, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Notes on a Scandal, The Life Aquatic, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of The Crystal Skull, The Lord of The Rings Trilogy, The Hobbit, The Good German, The Aviator, The Talented Mr Ripley and Elizabeth. Blanchett has won numerous awards including two Academy Awards, four BAFTAs, three Golden Globes and three Screen Actors Guild awards.

She is the Co-Founder and Principal of film and television production company Dirty Films, (alongside partners Andrew Upton and Coco Francini), which recently launched Proof of Concept, a program offering financial support, mentorship, and exhibition opportunities to women, trans and non-binary filmmakers. For the company Blanchett produced and appeared in Warwick Thornton’s award-winning The New Boy. She also produced Christos Nikou’s Apple Original Films feature Fingernails, with Jessie Buckley, Riz Ahmed and Jeremy Allen White, and Noora Niasari’s award-winning debut feature Shayda, starring Zar Amir Ebrahimi. With Dirty Films, other producing credits include Todd Haynes’ Carol and Todd Field’s Tár, Christos Nikou’s Apples, the 10-time EMMY nominated Mrs America for FX and producing and co-creating the 13-time AACTA-winning series Stateless for Netflix. She created and produced the award-winning Audible Original podcast Climate of Change, and produced Evolver, a VR interactive experience which was selected for the first ever Immersive Competition at the Cannes Film Festival.

Blanchett served alongside Andrew Upton as co-Artistic Director and co-CEO of Sydney Theatre Company between 2008-2013, producing 16 shows a year across 4 stages, which toured extensively nationally and internationally. Notable productions for STC in which she also performed include Andrew Upton’s The Present directed by John Crowley for which she earned a Tony Award nomination on Broadway; Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire directed by Liv Ullman; Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya directed by Tamás Ascher; and Benedict Andrews’ productions of The War of The Roses, Genet’s The Maids and Botho Strauss’ Gross und Klein. Other seminal productions were Steven Soderbergh’s Tot Mom, an adaptation of Kate Grenville’s The Secret River directed by Neil Armfield, Sam West’s True West directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman and productions by director Kip Williams. Among numerous awards at STC, Blanchett and Upton received the Green Globe Award for having transformed the company into one of the world’s greenest arts organisations. Blanchett has previously appeared at the National Theatre in Martin Crimp’s When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other directed by Katie Mitchell.

Blanchett has presided over festival juries in Cannes, Venice and Poland’s Camerimage, and the Venice Film Festival has twice awarded her The Volpi Cup for Best Performance. She holds a BFI Fellowship from the BFI London Film Festival, has received the Stanley Kubrick Award for Excellence in Film and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Numerous other accolades include the Honorary Cesar, International Goya and Chaplin Awards. She has been appointed Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France, named a Companion of the Order of Australia, presented with a Centenary Medal for service to Australian Society, and has been awarded Honorary Doctorates by the University of New South Wales, the University of Sydney and Macquarie University.

Blanchett is a Global Goodwill Ambassador for UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and is a member of the Earthshot Prize Council. She serves as a board member of the National Theatre (UK) and is the inaugural Ambassador for Wakehurst and the Millennium Seed Bank, is a lifetime member of the Australian Conservation Foundation, a strong supporter of the Actors Benevolent Fund, the SAG-AFTRA Foundation, the Australian Wildlife Conservancy, an AFI Ambassador and is Patron of the Sydney Film Festival and the NIDA Foundation, the drama school at which she trained.