In 1998, Fiennes appeared in two films that were nominated at the Academy Awards: he played Robert Dudley opposite Cate Blanchett in Elizabeth and he portrayed William Shakespeare opposite Gwyneth Paltrow in Shakespeare in Love, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Blanchett appeared as the elf lady Galadriel in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy from 2001 to 2003.

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

Blanchett provided a voice for the film Ponyo, and appeared opposite Russell Crowe in Ridley Scott's Robin Hood, released on 14 May 2010.

In 2011, Bana appeared as Erik Heller in the action thriller film Hanna, starring alongside Saoirse Ronan & Cate Blanchett.

In 2001 the Taraf appeared in Sally Potter's film The Man Who Cried alongside friend and fan Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Cate Blanchett, and John Turturro.

In addition, 42-year old Cate Blanchett also appeared on the cover of " Intelligent Life ’ s 2012 March / April " issue ; makeup free and without digital retouching for the first time.

It also appeared in the 2004 movie The Aviator, directed by Martin Scorsese, which depicts the early years ( late 1920s to the mid-1940s ) of legendary film director and aviator Howard Hughes ; the film starred Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Beckinsale, and Cate Blanchett.

Also in 2005 she narrated a second season of Forensic Investigators and appeared in the Australian film Little Fish starring alongside Cate Blanchett and Sam Neill in the early stages of her third pregnancy.

Paul Hogan went from painter on the Sydney Harbour Bridge to local TV star, then global film star with his hugely successful Crocodile Dundee in 1986 ( a film which begins with scenes of Sydney ) while theatre institutions like the Sydney Theatre Company and National Institute of Dramatic Art nurtured the budding careers of actors Mel Gibson, Judy Davis, Geoffrey Rush and Cate Blanchett and elsewhere actors Nicole Kidman and Russel Crowe forged their early careers in the city.

He starred as a heroin-addicted ex-rugby league player in the 2005 Australian indie film Little Fish, opposite Cate Blanchett.

Roxburgh played Vanya opposite Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving and John Bell in Sydney Theatre Company's 2010 production of Anton Chekov's Uncle Vanya.

A supporting role opposite Cate Blanchett and Tommy Lee Jones in Ron Howard's The Missing, in which she played the kidnapped daughter, Lilly Gilkeson, in a Searchers-style western, followed the same year.

In 2005, he starred opposite Indian actress Aishwarya Rai in the romantic film Bride & Prejudice, and in the award-winning Little Fish starring Cate Blanchett.

Lawless will star Ryan Gosling, with a supporting cast including Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara and Haley Bennett.

Knight of Cups will star Bale, and will also feature Blanchett, along with Isabel Lucas.

By 2007, Gere was co-starring with Jesse Eisenberg and Terrence Howard in The Hunting Party ( a comic thriller in which he played a journalist in Bosnia ) as well as with Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, and Cate Blanchett in Todd Haynes ' semi-biographical film about Bob Dylan, I'm Not There.

Organisations such as the Sydney Theatre Company and National Institute of Dramatic Art have fostered students of theatre, film, and television several of whom have continued to international success, with actors like Cate Blanchett and Geoffrey Rush having been associated with both institutions.

Blanchett made her international film debut with a supporting role as an Australian nurse captured by the Japanese Army during World War II, in Bruce Beresford's 1997 film Paradise Road, which co-starred Glenn Close and Frances McDormand.

On 5 December 2008, Blanchett was honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6712 Hollywood Boulevard in front of Grauman's Egyptian Theatre.

In 2006, he worked with Cate Blanchett on a reprise of the STC production of Hedda Gabler in New York City.

Blanchett plays Jude, a pop singer based closely on Dylan in his mid-1960s " Electric " era and his involvement with Pop Art and Warhol's Factory ; Jude chases an on-again off-again relationship with socialite / model Coco Rivington ( Michelle Williams ), a character based on Edie Sedgwick, with whom Dylan is reputed to have had an affair.

Also in 1999, Griffith made her stage debut at the Old Vic in London, England, where she acted with Cate Blanchett in The Vagina Monologues.

Collins ' film credits include City of Joy ( 1992, co-starring Patrick Swayze ), My Mother's Courage ( 1995 in Germany as Mutters Courage, released in the USA in 1997 ), Paradise Road ( 1997, with Glenn Close and Cate Blanchett ), and Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War ( 2001 ), another appearance with Alderton.

Responding to concerns arising from this, lead Cate Blanchett said: " It's terrifying that we are growing up with this very illiterate bunch of children, who are somehow being taught that film is fact, when in fact it's invention.

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When a housewife with a failing marriage ( Cate Blanchett ) decides to run away, she ends up in the hands of the criminals.

She followed this success three years later with the film Oscar and Lucinda ( 1997 ) starring Ralph Fiennes and a relatively-unknown Cate Blanchett.

It is a supernatural thriller, with the main character Annie ( Cate Blanchett ) becoming involved in a murder mystery as a result of her witnessing the crime with her second sight.

Meanwhile, Nick's wife, Connie ( Cate Blanchett ), seems to become more and more intrigued by Russell, and Nick becomes increasingly paranoid that Russell will eventually seek revenge by having sex with her.

In 2005, Little Fish marked a return to Australian film for actress Cate Blanchett and won five Australian Film Institute Awards including Best Actor for Hugo Weaving, Best Actress for Blanchett and Best Supporting Actress for screen veteran Noni Hazlehurst.

Their productions occasionally incorporate the return to the live stage of famous Australian screen actors such as Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving, Geoffrey Rush etc.

It starred Cate Blanchett, Sam Neill, Hugo Weaving, Martin Henderson and Dustin Nguyen, a Vietnamese-American.

Other Aussie ambassadors include Mel Gibson, Russell Crowe, Naomi Watts, Geoffrey Rush, Cate Blanchett, Hugh Jackman, Phillip Noyce, Heath Ledger, Eric Bana, Anthony LaPaglia, Gillian Armstrong, Simon Baker, Toni Collette, Deborra Lee Furness, Melissa George, Scott Hicks, Barry Humphries, Julian McMahon, Jacqueline McKenzie, Kylie Minogue, Radha Mitchell, Poppy Montgomery, Olivia Newton-John, Frances O ' Connor, Miranda Otto, Guy Pearce, Fred Schepisi, Hugo Weaving, David Wenham and Sarah Wynter.

Many Australian actors who would later find wider success both locally and internationally such as Hugo Weaving, Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush and Toni Collette have grounded their careers in Sydney Theatre Company productions.

In 2005, Roberts had a brief cameo in the Australian film Little Fish, starring Cate Blanchett and Hugo Weaving, playing an ex-rugby league star.

After graduating, he obtained his Fellowship in General Practice and worked as a General Practitioner for a few years before gaining a place in the renowned National Institute of Dramatic Art ( NIDA ) in Sydney ( other graduates include: Mel Gibson, Cate Blanchett, Judy Davis, Baz Luhrmann and Hugo Weaving ) where he obtained a Bachelor of Dramatic Arts in Acting.

The film was nominated for 13 Australian Film Institute Awards in 2005, and won five awards including Best Actor ( Hugo Weaving ), Best Actress ( Cate Blanchett ), Best Supporting Actress ( Noni Hazlehurst ), and Best Editing.

It also won several Inside Film Awards, including Best Actress ( Cate Blanchett ), Best Actor ( Hugo Weaving ), and Best Sound.

Weaving and Cate Blanchett reprised their roles in STC's internationally lauded production of Uncle Vanya for a ten-day run at New York's Lincoln Center in July.

" Owen Gleiberman from Entertainment Weekly praised it mostly for its great acting performance saying " The actors are terrific, especially Weaving, who plays bottoming out as a tragedy spiked with gallows humor, and Blanchett, who digs deep into the booby-trapped nature of recovery.