Age: 57
female
Catherine Elise Blanchett (born May 14, 1969) is an Australian-British and American actor, voice actress and producer. Regarded as one of the best actresses of her generation, she is known for her versatile work across independent films, blockbusters, and the stage. Blanchett is the recipient of numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, three British Academy Film Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards. After graduating from the National Institute of Dramatic Art, Blanchett began her acting career on the Australian stage, taking on roles in Electra in 1992 and Hamlet in 1994. She came to international attention as Elizabeth I in the drama film Elizabeth (1998), for which she won the Golden Globe and BAFTA Award for Best Actress, and received her first of seven Academy Award nominations. Her portrayal of Katharine Hepburn in Martin Scorsese's The Aviator (2004) won her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She later won the Academy Award for Best Actress for playing a neurotic former socialite in Woody Allen's comedy-drama Blue Jasmine (2013). Blanchett's other Oscar-nominated roles include Notes on a Scandal (2006), I'm Not There (2007), Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007), and Carol (2015). Her highest-grossing films include The Lord of the Rings (2001–2003) and The Hobbit (2012–2014) trilogies, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008), Cinderella (2015), Thor: Ragnarok (2017), and Ocean's 8 (2018). Blanchett has performed in over 20 theatre productions. From 2008 to 2013, she and her husband, Andrew Upton, were the artistic directors of the Sydney Theatre Company. Some of her stage roles during that period were in revivals of A Streetcar Named Desire, Uncle Vanya and The Maids, garnering several theatre awards and nominations. She made her Broadway debut in 2017 in The Present, for which she received a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play nomination. Blanchett has also received Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie and Outstanding Limited Series as producer for the FX/Hulu historical drama miniseries Mrs. America (2020).
For millennia, the island of Themyscira has remained hidden, a utopian, Spartan society of immortal warriors who chose to turn their backs on a world consumed by its own bloodlust. Now, however, the mystical barrier protecting the island is breached when an experimental ARGUS nuclear submarine, hijacked by a rebel faction, crashes on its shores. Queen Hippolyta orders the execution of the survivors to protect the Amazons' secret, but her daughter, Princess Diana, rebels. Convinced that the submarine's weaponry is a harbinger of an ancient entity awakening to consume the world, Diana helps the sole survivor, the cynical intelligence agent Steve Trevor, escape, exiling herself in the process. Diana discovers a cynical civilization dominated by corporations, espionage networks, and proxy wars. Guided by Steve Trevor, disillusioned after years of covert operations, Diana traces the origin of the submarine hijacking. Her investigation leads them to the heart of Ares Global Security, the world's largest private military company. Its CEO is none other than the God of War himself, who has evolved. Ares no longer needs swords or mud battlefields; he thrives on economic destabilization, cyber warfare, and global terrorism, orchestrating a worldwide conflict that will culminate in the use of nuclear arsenals and metahumans. The climax takes Diana from the luxurious skyscrapers of Geneva to an active war zone in Eastern Europe, where Ares' private armies are poised to unleash hell. To stop a modern-day god, Diana must not only employ her formidable combat skills but also inspire broken soldiers and corrupt individuals to lay down their arms. In the end, after a brutal and visceral battle, Diana understands that she cannot simply cut off the monster's head, for war is inherent in humanity's nature. She decides to remain in this fractured world not as a mere warrior, but as an ambassador of truth and peace, ready to confront the shadows that threaten the present.
