Cate Blanchett

At 54 years old, Cate Blanchett has this physical status:

Catherine Elise Blanchett (born 14 May 1969) is an Australian-American actress and theatre producer.

She is known for her appearances in both large blockbusters and low-budget independent films, one of Australia's most well-known actresses.

Blanchett has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, and three BAFTA Awards.

In 2007, Time magazine named her one of the world's 100 most influential people, and in 2018, she was ranked as one of the world's highest-paid actresses. Blanchett began her acting career on the Australian stage after graduating from the National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1992 and 1994, appearing in Electra and Hamlet.

Elizabeth I of England portrayed Elizabeth I of England in the British drama film Elizabeth (1998), for which she received the BAFTA Award for Best Actress and her first nomination for Best Actress.

Katharine Hepburn's role in the biographical drama The Aviator (2004) received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and she was named in the Academy Award for Best Actress for playing a neurotic former socialite in the black comedy-drama Blue Jasmine (2013).

Elizabeth was also nominated for roles in the films Notes on a Scandal (2007), I'm Not There (2007), and Carol (2015). The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001–2004), Babel (2006), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), Thor: Ragnarok (2017), and Ocean's 8 (2018).

Blanchett and her partner Andrew Upton served as the Sydney Theatre Company's artistic directors from 2008 to 2013.

A Streetcar Named Desire, Uncle Vanya, and The Maids were all in revivals.

She made her Broadway debut with The Presenter in 2017, for which she received a Tony Award nomination. Blanchett has been given the Centenary Medal by the Australian government, who made her a companion of the Order of Australia in 2017.

In 2012, the French government named Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters.

From the University of New South Wales, University of Sydney, and Macquarie University, she has been awarded a Doctor of Letters from the University of New South Wales, University of Sydney.

She was honoured by the Museum of Modern Art in 2015 and was given the British Film Institute Fellowship.

Early life and education

Catherine Elise Blanchett was born in Ivanhoe, a Melbourne suburb. June née Gamble, a mother from Australia, worked as a property developer and educator, and her American father, Robert DeWitt Blanchett Jr., a Texas native, was a US Navy Chief Petty Officer who later worked as an advertising executive. When Robert's ship broke down in Melbourne, the two people met. Blanchett died of a heart attack when her father was ten, leaving her mother to raise the family on her own when Blanchett was ten. She is the second of three children, with a younger sister and older brother. Her ancestry includes English, some Scottish, and French roots that are far removed from France.

Blanchett has referred to herself as a "part extrovert, part wallflower" child. During her teenage years, she had a penchant for dressing in traditionally masculine clothing and went through goth and punk phases, with one of them shaving her head. She attended primary school in Melbourne at Ivanhoe East Primary School; for her secondary education, she attended Ivanhoe Girls' Grammar School and then Methodist Ladies' College, where she explored her passion for the performing arts. She worked at a nursing home in Victoria in the late teens and early 20s. She studied economics and fine arts at the University of Melbourne but then decided against travelling overseas after one year. Blanchett was invited to appear as an American cheerleader as an extra in Egypt's golden boxing film, Kaboria (1990), but she declined due to a lack of funds. When returning to Australia, she went to Sydney and enrolled in the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA). She obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from NIDA in 1992.

Personal life

Blanchett is married to playwright and screenwriter Andrew Upton. They met in Australia in the mid-1990s and married on December 29, 1997. The couple have three sons and one daughter. Their sons are Dashiell John Upton (born 2001), Roman Robert Upton (born 2004), Ignatius Martin Upton (born 2008), and Edith Vivian Patricia Upton (adopted in 2015). Blanchett said she and her husband had been looking for a child ever since they first arrived in the United States.

She and her husband returned to Australia in 2006 after making Brighton, England, their main family home for nearly ten years. Blanchett attributed her decision in November 2006 to her inability to choose a permanent home for her children, to be closer to her family, and to a sense of belonging to the Australian theatre community. She and her family lived in Hunters Hill, Sydney, for the first time. In 2007, their Hunters Hill home underwent extensive renovations to be more eco friendly. Blanchett and Upton bought a house in East Sussex, England, in early 2016. Following the auction of their house in late 2015, they purchased it.

Blanchett has written about feminism and politics, telling Sky News in 2013 that she was worried that "a wave of conservatism sweeping the globe" was threatening women's place in society. "I think about my appearance less than ten years ago," she has discussed the pressures women in Hollywood now face: "I honestly, I think about my appearance less than I did ten years ago." Because of how women were raised then, people talk about Hollywood's golden age. You could be Joan Crawford and Bette Davis and continue to work well into your 50s, since you were born and made into a goddess. Now, with everything being so tumultuous, women have a sense of their use-by date."

Blanchett was the first ambassador and a supporter of the Australian Film Institute and its academy, the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts, since 2001. She is also a fan of the Sydney Film Festival. Blanchett, a patron of the new Australian Pavilion in Venice Biennale, attended the Venice Giardini's opening in May 2015. Blanchett spoke at former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam's state funeral in 2014 and Tanya Plibersek MP's Margaret Whitlam's dinner and fundraising function in June 2015.

Blanchett, the brand ambassador for Giorgio Armani fragrances for women in 2013, became a spokeswoman for and the brand ambassador for SK-II, the luxury skin care brand owned by Procter & Gamble in 2005, and was paid $10 million for the former. Blanchett would be the company's first beauty ambassador in 2018, in comparison to her 2013 commitments to fragrances. Louis Vuitton declared Blanchett as the country's new house ambassador in 2022.

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Career

In the 1992 David Mamet play Oleanna for the Sydney Theatre Company, Blanchett's first stage appearance was opposite Geoffrey Rush. In a Sophocles' Electra production that year, she was also played as Clytemnestra. The actress playing the title role resigned at rehearsals, and director Lindy Davies cast Blanchett in the role. Her success as Electra at NIDA made her one of the most coveted at the university. Blanchett won Best Newcomer Award for her role in Timothy Daly's Kafka Dances and received Best Actress for her role in Mamet's Oleanna in 1993, making her the first actress to win both categories in the same year. Blanchett was nominated for a Green Room Award in 1994-1995 Company B production of Ophelia, starring Rush and Richard Roxburgh, and was nominated for a Green Room Award. She appeared in the 1994 TV miniseries Heartland alongside Ernie Dingo, the miniseries Bordertown (1995) with Hugo Weaving, and in an episode of Police Rescue titled "The Loaded Child." She appeared in the short film Parklands (1996), which received an Australian Film Institute (AFI) award for Best Original Screenplay.

Blanchett made her debut in Bruce Beresford's film Paradise Road (1997), which co-starred Glenn Close and Frances McDormand, as an Australian nurse captured by the Japanese Army during World War II. The film earned just over $2 million at the box office on a budget of $19 million and mixed reviews from critics. Lucinda Leplastrier, an eccentric heiress, appeared in Gillian Armstrong's romantic drama Oscar and Lucinda (1997), opposite Ralph Fiennes, her first leading role came later this year. Blanchett was given acclaim for her performance, with Emanuel Levy of Variety announcing, "luminous newcomer Blanchett," who was supposed for Judy Davis' role, "is supposed to be a major star." She was named as the Best Leading Actress for Oscar and Lucinda for her first AFI Award nomination. She was named AFI Best Actress Award in the same year for her role as Lizzie in the romantic comedy Thank God He Met Lizzie (1997), co-starring Richard Roxburgh and Frances O'Connor. Blanchett had earned acclaim and admiration in her home country by 1997.

Elizabeth I, a young Elizabeth I in the critically acclaimed historical drama Elizabeth (1998), directed by Shekhar Kapur, was Blanchett's first high-profile international role. The film catapulted her to international fame, earning her the Golden Globe Award and British Academy Award (BAFTA), as well as her first Screen Actor (SAG) and Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. Elizabeth's performance in Variety magazine was "Blanchett" reveals with grace, poise, and intelligence, far too aware of her own uniqueness to bow to any man. [She] converts a clever but wary young woman who may be in over her head to a vivacious creature of her own invention[/]. Blanchett's appearance "brings life, beauty, and substance to what otherwise might have been turned into a vacuous role," Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote. "In the end, Kapur's crown jewel is a tale of twin transformations," said Elizabeth, "from Elizabeth to one of history's most enigmatic and influential women, and then "becomes" into a bona fide screen queen."

Blanchett appeared in Bangers (1999), an Australian short film and part of Stories of Lost Souls, a collection of thematically related short stories, for the following year. Andrew Upton's husband wrote and directed the short film, which was produced by Blanchett and Upton. She appeared in the Mike Newell film Pushing Tin (1999), where her role was left out by critics, and the critically acclaimed and financially profitable film The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), starring Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Meredith Logue's appearance in The Talented Mr. Ripley earned her her second BAFTA nomination.

Blanchett, a well-known actress, gained a following of new followers when she appeared in Peter Jackson's Academy Award-winning blockbuster trilogy The Lord of the Rings, playing Galadriel in all three films. In a poll published in 2012 by American magazine Wired, the trilogy was a big critical and financial success, grossing $2.981 billion at the box office worldwide, and all three films were later ranked in the top ten best fantasy movies of all time. Blanchett expanded her portfolio with a number of roles in Charlotte Gray's book The Lord of the Rings and the American crime-comedy Bandits, for which she received her second Golden Globe and SAG Award nomination. Blanchett's first foray into comedy, with Ben Falk of the BBC announcing her and co-star Billy Bob Thornton "a true find as comedians" and naming her role as an unsatisfied housewife trapped between two innocent convicts "unhinged, but obviously sexy."

Blanchett starred opposite Giovanni Ribisi in Tom Tykwer-directed Heaven in 2002, the first film in a Krzysztof Kielowski's unfinished trilogy. "Although Ms. Blanchett's appearance in the film as a tragic woman who commits a dangerous act of terrorism has always been respected," Stephen Holden of The New York Times called it "the most compelling screen performance of her career" and went on to state," she wrote. Blanchett appeared in many roles including Galadriel in the third and final installment of the Lord of the Rings trilogy (which received the Academy Award for Best Picture); Ron Howard-directed western thriller The Missing; Jim Jarmusch's Coffee and Cigarettes, playing two roles (both against herself); and the biographical Veronica Guerin, which earned her a Golden Globe Best Supporting Female nomination. In Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Blanchett portrayed a pregnant journalist chronicling an underwater journey by an eccentric oceanographer.

Blanchett received her first Academy Award in 2005 for her highly acclaimed portrayal of Katharine Hepburn in Martin Scorsese's The Aviator (2004). Blanchett became the first actor to receive an Academy Award for portraying another Academy Award-winning actor. She lent her Oscar statuete to the Australian Centre for the Moving Image. Blanchett portrayed Hepburn with "lip-smacking vivacity," according to David Ansen of Newsweek, who praised the result as "delightful and yet touching; demeanor and tomboyish." Blanchett's first 15 screen performances were studied and memorized her poise, demeanor, and speech pattern throughout her preparations for the role and at Scorsese's request. Blanchett spoke about the challenge of starring such a well-known actress, saying, "Representing Kate in the same medium, film in which she existed was very frightening." But we do know Hepburn from her films because she was so private and few people knew her. You must of course give her a nod when playing her." Blanchett also received the Australian Film Institute Best Actress Award for her role as Tracy Heart, a former heroin addict, in the Australian film Little Fish (2005), co-produced by her and her husband's production company, Dirty Films. Although less well known internationally than some of her other films, the sober and vulnerable Little Fish, Jeanette Blanchett's native Australia, received acclaim and was nominated for 13 Australian Film Institute awards.

In the Sydney Theatre Company production of Hedda Gabler directed by Robyn Nevin, Blanchett played Hedda Gabler at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 2006. As one half of a grieving couple caught up in an international tragedy in Morocco, she then appeared alongside Brad Pitt in Alejandro González Irrritu's multi-narrative drama Babel. Babel received seven Academy Award nominations. She co-starred in The Good German drama starring George Clooney and George Clooney, as well as the acclaimed psychological thriller Notes on a Scandal opposite Dame Judi Dench. Blanchett received her third Academy Award nomination for her role in the upcoming film in which she portrays a lonely teacher who begins an affair with a 15-year-old student and becomes the object of passion for an older woman played by Dench. Both Blanchett's and Dench's performances were highly praised, with Peter Bradshaw writing in The Guardian, "Director Richard Eyre, with no showy authority, brings the best out of Dench and Blanchett, as well as the real tenderness in these two actors' tragically tense love."

Blanchett was named one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2007, and he appeared on Forbes' Celebrity 100 list. In Edgar Wright's action comedy film Hot Fuzz (2006), she made a cameo as Janine, forensic scientist and ex-girlfriend of Simon Pegg's character. The cameo was uncredited, and she donated her fee to charity. In Todd Haynes' experimental film I'm Not There, she reprised her role as Queen Elizabeth I in the 2007 sequel Elizabeth: The Golden Age produced by Shekhar Kapur, and she portrayed Jude Quinn, one of six incarnations of Bob Dylan. Jude Quinn was named Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival, the Independent Spirit Award, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Jude Quinn. Blanchett received two awards – Best Actress for Elizabeth: the Golden Age and Best Supporting Actress for I'm Not There – making her the first actress to be nominated twice for a second time in an adaptation. "That Blanchett could appear in the same Toronto International Film Festival as Elizabeth and Bob Dylan, both superbly, is a marvel of acting," Roger Ebert said of her year of success.

Blanchett appeared in Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) as Col. Dr. Irina Spalko, Spielberg's most feared villain from the entire series. Critics and audiences alike, but the film was a huge box office success, grossing over $790 million worldwide. Daisy Fuller, a second time, co-starred in David Fincher's Oscar-nominated The Curious Case of Benjamin Button for a second time, playing the title character's love interest. Blanchett referred to Granmamare in the English language version of Hayao Miyazaki's Ponyo, which was published in July 2008.

Blanchett and her partner Andrew Upton became co-CEOs and artistic directors of the Sydney Theatre Company in 2008. Blanchett returned to acting in the theatre in 2009 with the Sydney Theatre Company's production of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, directed by Liv Ullmann. Blanche DuBois starred Julia Kowalski as Stanley Kowalski, alongside Joel Edgerton. Since Ullman's intended film adaptation of A Doll's House fell by the wayside, Ullmann and Blanchett had been aiming to collaborate on a project. Blanchett suggested a ride on Streetcar to Ullmann, who jumped at the opportunity after initial discussion.

A Streetcar Named Desire performance travelled from Sydney to the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York and the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Blanche DuBois was a critical and commercial success, and Blanchett received acclaim for her role as Blanche DuBois. "Ms. Ullmann and Ms. Blanchett performed the play as if it had never been staged before," a friend of mine put it, "you feel like you're hearing words you didn't know for the first time." "With her alert mind, her educated mind, and her lithe, patrician silhouette, [Blanchett] gets it right from the first beat," John Lahr of The New Yorker wrote about her appearance. I don't expect to see a better job in this capacity in my lifetime." Jane Fonda, a New York artist, proclaimed it "perhaps the most stunning and remarkable as well as terrifying as anything I've ever seen." I thought I'd seen it all the lines by heart because I've seen it so many times, but I didn't know until I saw the play." Blanchett was named Best Actress in a Leading Role by the Sydney Theatre Awards. In a Non-Resident Production award, the production and Blanchett were recognized by Helen Hayes for Outstanding Non-Resident Production and Outstanding Lead Actress.

In Ridley Scott's epic Robin Hood, Blanchett played Lady Marion opposite Russell Crowe's legendary hero. Critically, the film was mixed, but at the international box office, it was a commercial success, grossing $321 million. In 2011, she appeared in Joe Wright's action thriller film Hanna as the villain CIA agent Marissa Wiegler, co-starring Saoirse Ronan and Eric Bana.

Blanchett appeared in two Sydney Theatre Company productions in 2011. She appeared in a recent adaptation of Botho Strauß's 1978 play Groß and Small, directed by Benedict Andrews, she portrayed Lotte Kotte in a new translation of Botho Strauß's 1978 play Groß and Small. The production travelled to London, Paris, the Vienna Festival, and Ruhrfestspiele as a result of its Sydney run. Blanchett and the production received acclaim. Blanchett was nominated for the Evening Standard Theatre Awards for Best Actress, as well as the Best Actress and the Helpmann Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role and the Best Actress Award. She performed Yelena in Andrew Upton's interpretation of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, which came to the Kennedy Center and the New York City Center as part of the Lincoln Center Festival. "I consider the three hours I spent on Saturday night [the characters] complaining about how bored they are among the happiest of my theatregoing experience," the performance and Blanchett received critical acclaim. This Uncle Vanya gets under your skin like no other I've seen... [Blanchett] confirms her as one of the world's best and bravest actresses. Peter Marks of the Washington Post dubbed the production Washington, D.C.'s best theatrical performance of 2011. Blanchett received the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Non-Resident Production, as well as the Best Actress Award.

Blanchett reprised her role as Galadriel in Peter Jackson's adaptations of The Hobbit (2012–2014), the prequel to the Lord of the Rings film series, shot in New Zealand. The Hobbit trilogy, although less well known than The Lord of the Rings trilogy, was nonetheless a big box office success, grossing nearly $3 billion worldwide. Galadriel's character does not appear in J.R.R. Tolkien's first book was edited by co-writer Guillermo del Toro and director Peter Jackson so Blanchett could appear in the film trilogy. In the episode "Mr. and Mrs. Stewie," she appeared as "Penelope" on Family Guy's "Mr. and Mrs. Stewie," and Queen Elizabeth II in the episode "Mr. and Mrs. Mail 2." Blanchett made her debut in The Turning (2013), an anthology film based on a collection of short stories by Tim Winton, she returned to Australian cinema for the first time. She served as the jury of the 2012 and 2013 Dubai International Film Festival. Blanchett's last season as co-CEO and artistic director was during the Sydney Theatre Company's 2013 season.

Blanchett appeared in Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine in 2013, co-starring Alec Baldwin and Sally Hawkins. Her performance earned widespread acclaim, with some commentators naming it as the best of her career to date (surpassing her lauding her acclaimed appearance in Elizabeth). Mark Kermode wrote an article for The Guardian, "Blanchett takes on the challenge of a marathon, ploughing her way through 26 miles of mental pressure, stomach turns, and heartburns that accompany it," a feat that occasionally has her (and us) gasping for breath." Blanchett's performance, according to Peter Travers, who went on to write, "the sight of Jasmine – alone and unable to summon magic from unyielding reality" is tragic. This is Blanchett's triumphant, and not to be missed." The performance received more than 40 industry and critic awards, including the LAFC Award, the New York City Film Festival, Critics' Choice Award, and the Santa Barbara International Film Festival Outstanding Performance of the Year Award, SAG Award, BAFTA Award, Independent Film Spirit Award, and the Academy Award for Best Actress. Blanchett's win made her the sixth actress to win an Academy in both acting and supporting Actress categories, as well as the first Australian female to win more than one acting award.

Dylan Farrow, Allen's adopted daughter, has since chastised Blanchett and other actresses for working with Allen. "It's obviously been a long and difficult situation for the family, and I hope they find some closure and stability," Blanchett replied. Blanchett said she thinks that "social media is a great way to raise concerns about the issue," but that the plaintiffs "need to go to court" and that the lawsuits "need not be prosecuted" and that "need to go to court," not the judge and judge," so if these crimes have occurred, the person who is not in the burgeoning industry that I envy would use the law to shield themselves. They're always vulnerable whether they're in my industry or some other industry.

Blanchett appeared alongside Matt Damon and George Clooney in the latter's ensemble film The Monuments Men, based on a team of art historians and museum curators who recovered renowned works of art stolen by Nazis in 2014. Rose Valland, a French terriere, was a source of Blanchett's character Claire Simone. The Monuments Men received mixed feedback from critics and raised $155 million at the worldwide box office. Blanchett appeared in the DreamWorks Animation film How to Train Your Dragon 2 last year. The film received critical acclaim and was a box office hit. It went on to win the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film and be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. Cleaver, Blanchett's on-screen female version of Richard Roxburgh's rogue protagonist, appeared on Rake as the onscreen female version of the rogue protagonist. Deborah Mailman, co-hosted the 4th AACTA Awards on January 29, 2015.

Blanchett appeared in five films in 2015. In Terrence Malick's Knight Of Cups, which premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival, she portrayed Nancy. Blanchett's appearance in Knight of Cups was one of the best performances in Terrence Malick films, according to IndieWire. To critical acclaim, she appeared in Disney's Kenneth Branagh-directed live action version of Cinderella. Richard Corliss wrote for Time magazine that "Blanchett [earns top billing] radiates a hauteur that chills as it amuses; the result is grand without skirting parody." She starred in Carol, Patricia Highsmith's highly acclaimed film version of The Price of Salt, reuniting her with director Todd Haynes. Blanchett, a film producer, received rave praise for her role as the titular character, which was widely praised as one of her career's finest performances, alongside Elizabeth and Blue Jasmine. "Blanchett's] performance in this gloriously realized film, as a result of a research into how beautiful surfaces can simultaneously conceal and reveal deeper meanings, Justin Chang of Variety said." Carol Blanchett received yet another Oscar, Golden Globe, and BAFTA Award nominations.

In Truth (2015), a documentary about the Killian documents controversy, Blanchett portrayed Mary Mapes opposite Robert Redford's Dan Rather. Blanchett's production company was a production partner on the film. She appeared in Manifesto, Julian Rosefeldt's multi-screen video installation in which 12 artist manifestos are depicted by 13 different characters, many played by Blanchett. The initiative and Blanchett received critical acclaim, with Roberta Smith of The New York Times stating that "If the art world gave out Oscars, Cate Blanchett should win for her tour de force of supporting roles in 'Manifesto'." Blanchett narrated one of two versions of Terence Malick's documentary On Earth and the Universe, Voyage of Time, which had its world premiere at the 73rd Venice Film Festival in 2016.

Blanchett appeared in The Present, Andrew Upton's version of Anton Chekhov's play Platonov, directed by John Crowley, in 2017. The production debuted in Sydney in 2015, to critical acclaim, and then migrated to Broadway in 2017, marking Blanchett's Broadway debut. Blanchett's performance during the play's Broadway debut received raves. "Blanchett knows how to stage a stage and, if necessary, hijack it," Ben Brantley of The New York Times wrote. If you're trying to hold a tightly assembled group or, for that matter, play," a commanding, try-anything charisma is very useful. Blanchett received a Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Play, a Drama Desk Award nomination, and a Distinguished Performance Award nomination for her Distinguished Performance Award. Blanchett appeared in Terrence Malick's Song to Song in 2012, shooting back-to-back with Knight of Cups and portraying the goddess of death Hela in the Marvel Studios film Thor: Ragnarok, directed by Taika Waititi. Thor: Ragnarok was both a critical and financial success, earning $854 million at the international box office, according to Thor.

Blanchett appeared in Ocean's 8, the all-female spin-off of the Ocean's Eleven franchise, directed by Gary Ross, opposite Sandra Bullock, Anne Hathaway, Mindy Kaling, Rihanna and Awkwafina. The film received mostly mixed feedback, but it was a box office hit, grossing over $297 million worldwide. Florence Zimmerman was also played in the film version of The House of Commons directed by Eli Roth. Blanchett was named president of the 71st Cannes Film Festival, which took place in May 2018. Forbes named her as one of the world's highest-paid actresses with annual income of $12.5 million.

In Andy Serkis' adaptation of The Jungle Book titled Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle (2018), Blanchett portrayed a female version of the python Kaa. Serkis used a mixture of motion capture, CG animation, and live action in the film, and Kaa's role in the short stories by the author Rudyard Kipling, who is more like a mentor-like figure for Mowgli. In 2019, Netflix unveiled the film on Netflix. Blanchett appeared in Where'd You Go, Bernadette, an adaptation of the best-selling book of the same name written by Richard Linklater in the same year. Despite the film's most mixed reviews and earned $10.4 million at the box office against a budget of $18 million, Blanchett's portrayal as the titular character drew praise, with Pete Hammond writing in his article for Deadline, "The film] doesn't quite measure up to expectations, even though the best reason to see this film is to see this film." For her role in the film, she received her tenth Golden Globe award. She reprised her role as Valka in How to Train Your Dragon: The Unknown World, which was also named for Best Animated Feature at the 92nd Academy Awards earlier this year.

Blanchett's Dirty Films production company was contracted with New Republic Pictures for feature films and FX Networks for television in 2020. Blanchett made a comeback to television by appearing in two miniseries. She played a supporting role in the Australian drama series Stateless, which was inspired by Cornelia Rau's controversial mandatory detention case. Screen Australia and Blanchett co-created and executive producer for the series, while stateless was funded by Screen Australia. On Australian public radio ABC, it aired from 1 March 2020 to 5 April 2020, and then premiered internationally on Netflix in July 2020. Blanchett received two awards at the 10th AACTA Awards for Stateless: Best Guest or Supporting Actress for her role as executive producer and Best Mini-Series for her role as executive producer.

Blanchett also produced and directed Mrs. America (2020), starring conservative feminist Phyllis Schlafly. The nine-part series debuted in the United States on April 15th, to widespread critical acclaim; James Poniewozik's commentary for The New York Times: "Her final scene, wordless and tragic, may as well end with Blanchett's Emmy on film"; and Michael Idato of The Sydney Morning Herald announced, "Blanchett's track record speaks for itself." Blanchett's Schlafly glides effortlessly into the photograph every time, there is simply no other place to look." She received awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie, and Outstanding Limited Series for her Outstanding Limited Series, as well as nominations for the Golden Globe Award, the Screen Actor Guild Award, and the Television Critics Association Award for Individual Achievement in Drama at the 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards.

Blanchett has also appeared as an executive producer on the Greek film Apples (2020), directed by Christos Nikou. The film premiered at the Venice International Film Festival to critical praise, and it was chosen to be the country's best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards for the Best Foreign Language Film, but it did not receive the award.

Blanchett appeared alongside Bradley Cooper in Guillermo del Toro's film adaptation of the novel Nightmare Alley in 2021, which attracted raves and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. In Adam McKay's Don't Look Up, a climate allegory (often mistook it for a political satire) film for Netflix, she appeared alongside Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio, who also received an Oscar nomination for Best Picture. Blanchett broke the record set by actress Olivia de Havilland of being the female actor with the most credited roles in Best Picture Oscar nominations, with Nightmare Alley and Don't Look Up's Best Picture Oscar nominations.

Tár is Blanchett's latest film to be released. Lydia Tár, a globally well-known conductor, has been given critical acclaim and received her second Volpi Award for Best Actress from the Venice Film Festival, winning Blanchett her second Volpi Trophy for Best Actress. On October 7, 2022, the film was released. Blanchett will appear in Netflix's Pinocchio film version, reuniteing her with director Guillermo Del Toro. Lilith in Borderlands, a live action recreation of Lionsgate's same name, reunites her with director Eli Roth. Blanchett is then confirmed to appear in the movie version of 1960s British television series The Champions, starring Ben Stiller, who will also lead the project.

Krisos Nikou's English-language film debut, Fingernails, starring Carey Mulligan, is planned by Blanchett's production company, Dirty Films. She is also expected to appear alongside Kevin Kline in the Apple TV+ thriller series Disclaimer, written and directed by Alfonso Cuarón. Blanchett will appear in Pedro Almodovar's first English-language feature film A Manual for Cleaning Women, which was released in January 2022. On the project, she will also act as a producer. It was announced in February 2022 that Blanchett would star in and co-produce The New Boy, written and directed by Warwick Thornton.

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