Award-winning actress, producer and RSL Media co-founder

Cate Blanchett
Cate Blanchett is an internationally acclaimed actor, producer, and humanitarian.
Throughout her career, she has collaborated with an extraordinary roster of filmmakers, including Wes Anderson, Gillian Armstrong, Bruce Beresford, George Clooney, Alfonso Cuarón, Todd Field, David Fincher, Jim Jarmusch, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Todd Haynes, Peter Jackson, Shekhar Kapur, Guy Maddin, Martin Scorsese, Steven Soderbergh, Guillermo del Toro, and Steven Spielberg. She recently completed production on Alice Birch's directorial debut, Sweetsick, and is currently developing a film about Martha Stewart with Janicza Bravo. Her many accolades include two Academy Awards, four BAFTA Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, and three Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards.
Blanchett is Co-Founder and Principal of Dirty Films alongside Andrew Upton and Coco Francini. Together with Francini and the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, she leads the Proof of Concept development program, supporting filmmakers who amplify the voices of women, transgender, and non-binary people. She also founded and leads the award-winning Displacement Film Fund, which empowers refugee and displaced filmmakers while supporting authentic storytelling about displacement.
From 2008 to 2013, Blanchett served as Co-Artistic Director and Co-CEO of the Sydney Theatre Company alongside Andrew Upton, producing 16 productions annually across four stages, many of which toured nationally and internationally. In 2011, she and Upton co-founded The Corridor Project, transforming a 130-acre rural property in Australia into an artist-led residency that provides opportunities for artists, students, educators, and communities to create within a unique natural environment.
Blanchett has chaired the juries of the Cannes Film Festival, Camerimage, and the Venice Film Festival, where she has twice received the Volpi Cup for Best Performance. Her honours also include a BFI Fellowship, the Stanley Kubrick Award for Excellence in Film, an Honorary César, International Goya, Chaplin, AACTA, and Donostia Awards. She has been named a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France, appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia, and awarded honorary doctorates by the University of New South Wales, the University of Sydney, and Macquarie University.
Blanchett was among the first artists to create and own authorised digital likeness and voice assets through CAA's Vault, a secure platform that enables artists to retain ownership and control of their digital identities. She has also publicly supported the global "Stealing Isn't Innovation" campaign, raising awareness about the impact of artificial intelligence on the creative industries.
As a Global Goodwill Ambassador for UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, Blanchett combines high-level advocacy—including addresses to the European Parliament, the United Nations Security Council, and the U.S. Congress—with field missions to Jordan, Lebanon, Bangladesh, Niger, South Sudan, and Brazil. She is a member of The Earthshot Prize Council, the inaugural Ambassador for the Wakehurst Millennium Seed Bank, and serves on the board of the UK's National Theatre. She is also a lifetime member of the Australian Conservation Foundation, supports the Actors Benevolent Fund, the SAG-AFTRA Foundation, and the Australian Wildlife Conservancy, and is Patron of the Sydney Film Festival and the NIDA Foundation, where she trained as an actor.