American Actress.

Catherine Elise Blanchett.
Born: May 14, 1969 in Melbourne (Victoria, Australia).

Cate Blanchett was born on May 14, 1969 in Australia to an American father and an Australian mother. She has an older brother and an younger sister. When she was ten years old, her 40-year old father died of a sudden heart attack. Her mother never remarried, and her grandmother moved in to help her mother. Cate graduated from Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Art [NIDA] in 1992 and, in a little over a year, had won both critical and popular acclaim.

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