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Already an acclaimed actress, Blanchett received a host of new fans when she appeared in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings.

She played the role of Galadriel in all three films.

The trilogy holds the record as the highest grossing film trilogy of all time.

In 2005, she won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for playing Katharine Hepburn in Martin Scorsese's The Aviator.

This made Blanchett the first person to garner an Academy Award for playing a previous Oscar-winning actor / actress.

That same year, Blanchett won the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress for her role as Tracy Heart, a recovering heroin addict in the Australian film Little Fish.

Though lesser known globally than some of her other films, Little Fish received tremendous critical acclaim in Blanchett's native Australia.