Cate Blanchett

Cate Blanchett goes for a morning walk with a friend on Saturday (November 7) in Washington D.C. The 40-year-old Aussie actress is in town performing her critically acclaimed play, A Streetcar Named Desire . Last weekend, Cate attended the opening night reception of the play held at the Kennedy Center’s Embassy of Australia in D.C. A Streetcar Named Desire continues through Nov. 21 at the Kennedy Center . The show is sold out! Read Full Story

Cate Blanchett went for a morning stroll before heading for work this morning.It was a lil cold out so she put on her heavy jacket and went for a walk to get a cup of coffee.She is in Washington DC for 10 more days. Read Full Story

Australian star Cate Blanchett is winning standing ovations and rave reviews from US audiences for her heart-rending performance in the Tennessee Williams classic "A Streetcar Named Desire." More than 60 years after the play debuted on Broadway, Blanchett and her Sydney Theatre Company Saturday launched 24 performances at the Kennedy Center in Washington, all of which are already sold out. Blanchett, 40, plays tragic, fading southern belle Blanche DuBois, who arrives unannounced at the home of her sister Stella, to be met by open hostility from her violent brother-in-law Stanley Kowalski, played by Australian actor Joel Edgerton. Norwegian actress and director Liv Ullmann directs ... Read Full Story

AUSSIE star Cate Blanchett is winning standing ovations and rave reviews from US audiences for her heart-rending performance in the Tennessee Williams classic A Streetcar Named Desire . More than 60 years after the play debuted on Broadway, Blanchett and her Sydney Theatre Company on Saturday launched 24 performances at the Kennedy Centre in Washington, all of which are already sold out. Blanchett, 40, plays tragic, fading southern belle Blanche DuBois, who arrives unannounced at the home of her sister Stella, to be met by open hostility from her violent brother-in-law Stanley Kowalski, played by Australian actor Joel Edgerton. Norwegian actress and director Liv ... Read Full Story

WASHINGTON -- Cate Blanchett and Liv Ullmann conducted an impromptu lesson over the weekend in the duties, delights, and hierarchies of star power -- with the help of the Australian embassy. Blanchett is starring in, and Ullmann is directing, the production of "A Streetcar Named Desire" running through Nov. 21 at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. This staging by the Sydney Theatre Company comes to Washington through the efforts of Dennis Richardson, Australia's Ambassador to the U.S., before heading off to the Big Apple for a month of performances. (Blanchett and her husband, Andrew Upton, are the troupe's artistic directors.) The ambassador ... Read Full Story