2009: Cate Blanchett plays Blanche Dubois in the Sydney Theatre Company ’ s production of A Streetcar Named Desire, directed by Liv Ullmann

Cate Blanchett plays herself and a fictional and non-famous cousin named Shelly, whom she meets over some coffee in the lounge of a hotel.

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times noted, " Cate Blanchett plays Guerin in a way that fascinated me for reasons the movie probably did not intend.

" 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.

In another radical shift in direction, Haynes ' next film I'm Not There ( 2007 ) returned to the mythology of pop music, portraying the life and legends of Bob Dylan through seven fictional characters played by six actors: Richard Gere, Cate Blanchett, Marcus Carl Franklin, Heath Ledger, Ben Whishaw and Christian Bale.

* Two films have been based on her story: When the Sky Falls, ( 2000 ), starring Joan Allen as Sinead Hamilton and Veronica Guerin ( 2003 ), starring Cate Blanchett.

It stars Cate Blanchett in the title role and is loosely based on events during the latter part of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England.

When she was eighteen, Blanchett went on a holiday to Egypt.

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.

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 November 2006, Blanchett stated that this was due to a desire to decide on a permanent home for her children, and to be closer to her family as well as a sense of belonging to the Australian ( theatrical ) community.

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

* An inaccurate example of this dance in the movie Elizabeth ( 1998 ), where Cate Blanchett ( Queen Elizabeth I ) and Joseph Fiennes ( Lord Robert Dudley ) dance it on two occasions.

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.

Martin Henderson who portrayed Stuart Neilson from 1992 – 1995 went on to star in The Ring and starred alongside James Franco in Flyboys and Cate Blanchett in Little Fish.

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.

In a 2009 retrospective review of the " New Cult Canon ", Scott Tobias wrote " Much like Haynes ' recent I'm Not There, which dissected the various phases of Bob Dylan's life and career by casting six different actors ( including Bale and Cate Blanchett ) as Dylan, Velvet Goldmine doesn't come at glam-rock directly, and both films cause no end of frustration to those who can't get on their wavelength "; " Haynes ' background in semiotics has led some critics to dismiss these films as too academic, but figures like Dylan and Bowie are notoriously elusive, and his effort to access them indirectly, through allusion and representation, pays more dividends than a straightforward biopic ever could.

Terry turns around, trying not to draw attention to himself, and descends a set of stairs on the west side of the bridge and walks onto Naito Parkway, where he is hit by Kate Wheeler ( Cate Blanchett ), who is driving a speeding car.

The pair's 25 years of presenting film reviews on television was celebrated in a special show on 26 October 2011, filmed before an audience and special guests, hosted by Cate Blanchett and Geoffrey Rush.

In the 2000 ’ s, Armstrong went on to direct the feature films Charlotte Gray ( 2001 ), starring Cate Blanchett, and Death Defying Acts ( 2008 ) starring Catherine Zeta-Jones and Guy Pearce.

On 21 February 2010, actress Cate Blanchett read excerpts from Porter's posthumously published short work on literary criticism and emotions in literature, On Passion, at the Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne.

After a few small roles on television and film, Boyd's big break came when she was cast in The Missing, alongside Cate Blanchett and Evan Rachel Wood.

Aronofsky originally planned to direct The Fountain on a $ 70 million budget with Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett in the lead roles, but Pitt's withdrawal and cost overruns led Warner Bros. to shut down production.

Rachel Weisz ( pictured ) joined the cast in August 2004 after Cate Blanchett moved on to other projects.

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.

He said ' That Blanchett could appear in the same Toronto Film Festival playing Elizabeth and Bob Dylan, both splendidly, is a wonder of acting '.

Blanchett portrayed Bob Dylan in the film I'm Not There and was nominated for an Academy Award for her role in both movies.

Todd Haynes's film 2008 I'm Not There features a nod to the cab ride with Lennon, featuring Cate Blanchett as Bob Dylan.

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.

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 appeared in the TV miniseries Heartland opposite Ernie Dingo, the miniseries Bordertown, with Hugo Weaving, and in an episode of Police Rescue entitled " The Loaded Boy ".

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.

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.

* Interview with Cate Blanchett at tribute. ca

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.