Cate Blanchett

Catherine Elise Blanchett was born in Melbourne, Australia on May 14, 1969 as the daughter of a Texan navy officer (Robert Blanchett) and a Melbourne schoolteacher (June Blanchett). When her parents met, Robert Blanchett moved to Australia, and got into advertising. When Cate was ten, she and her brother and sister were pulled out of a Melbourne cinema to be told that their father was dead of a heart attack at the age of 40. It's a story she resists talking about.