Cate Blanchett is an internationally acclaimed actor, producer and humanitarian.

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Throughout her career, she has collaborated with an extraordinary roster of film directors 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 has recently wrapped production on Alice Birch’s debut feature Sweetsick and is currently in development with Janicza Bravo for a film about Martha Stewart. She holds numerous awards including two Academy Awards, four BAFTAs, four Golden Globes and three SAG Awards.

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She is co-Founder and Principal of Dirty Films with Andrew Upton and Coco Francini. With Francini and the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative she leads the Proof of Concept development program, supporting filmmakers who amplify the voices of women, trans, and non-binary people. She also created and leads the award winning Displacement Film Fund, which empowers and funds refugee and displaced filmmakers and those creating authentic storytelling about the experiences of displaced people.

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From 2008 to 2013, she ran the Sydney Theatre Company, as co-Artistic Director and co-CEO with Upton, producing 16 shows a year across 4 stages, many of which toured nationally and internationally. Bequeathing a 130-acre rural property in Australia as an artist-led residency in 2011, Blanchett and Upton co-founded The Corridor Project which provides artists, students, educators and communities with opportunities to explore, experiment and create within an extraordinary natural environment.

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Blanchett has headed juries at Cannes, Camerimage and Venice Fim Festival (where she has twice won the Volpi Cup for Best Performance). Other accolades include a BFI Fellowship, Stanley Kubrick Award for Excellence in Film, Honorary Cesar, and International Goya, Chaplin, AACTA and Donostia Awards. She has been named a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France, Companion of the Order of Australia, and received Honorary Doctorates from the University of New South Wales, University of Sydney, and Macquarie University.

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Blanchett was one of the first artists to create her authorised and owned digital likeness and voice assets via CAA’s ‘Vault’, a service that scans, captures and securely stores artists' digital likenesses and voice, giving them complete ownership and control over their digital identities. She also recently backed the global ‘Stealing Isn't Innovation’ campaign, highlighting concerns about how AI may impact the creative industries.

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As a Global Goodwill Ambassador for UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, Blanchett combines high-level political advocacy – including addresses to the European Parliament, the UN 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, and the inaugural Ambassador for the Wakehurst Millennium Seed Bank. She serves on the board of the UK’s National Theatre, is a lifetime member of the Australian Conservation Foundation, and strongly supports the Actors Benevolent Fund, SAG-AFTRA Foundation, and the Australian Wildlife Conservancy. She was a prominent participant and speaker at the Australia 2020 Summit and is Patron of the Sydney Film Festival and NIDA Foundation, the drama school at which she trained.