Cate met Andrew Upton in Australia and two weeks after they met he proposed. A few weeks after that they married. Blanchett has managed to preserve the privacy of rest of her family: her mother, Joan; her elder brother, Bob; and her younger sister Genevieve.

"If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously!" "If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state."

In an interview she gave to Fox Television Network, she admitted blushingly that she had accepted the role of Galadriel, the Elf Queen, in The Lord of the Rings trilogy because she always wanted to appear in a movie wearing pointed ears.