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Who is Cate Blanchett Husband? Details on her Married Life

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Who is Cate Blanchett Husband? Details on her Married Life

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Cate Blanchett is a well-known Australian actress with a net worth of $95 million. The 5'8'' tall actress  is renowned for playing a variety of roles in both independent and mainstream movies. 

Blanchett, 53, earned $13 million between August 2017 and August 2018, which was enough to place her among the top 10 highest-paid actresses in the world. In this article, learn all about Cate's personal life.

Who Is Cate Blanchett's Husband? 

Cate Blanchett's husband is Andrew Upton. As per Nickiswift, in Hollywood, Blanchett and Upton are a power couple. According to E! Online, Upton is a playwright and co-owns the production company Dirty Films with Blanchett

Cate Blanchett is a well-known Australian actress with a net worth of $95 million.

Cate Blanchett is a well-known Australian actress with a net worth of $95 million. 
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They are also the Sydney Theatre Company's CEOs and artistic directors. According to Blanchett, their professional relationship is fantastic and a great love affair.

While their relationship has been going strong for the past two decades, it wasn't love at first sight when they met in 1996. "He thought I was aloof, and I thought he was arrogant," Cate admitted on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno in 2013

"We just didn't really connect, and we were going out with other people with whom we're still friends, and it was always an issue when the four of us went out that Andrew and I had something going on."

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Eventually, Blanchett warmed up to Upton, and the two made their relationship official by sharing a kiss after a game of poker, according to the outlet. Three weeks later, the lovebirds became engaged, but it wasn't as fancy as it seemed. 

"I somehow decided that stuffing a trout with walnuts and goat's cheese would be a good idea, and I cooked him the worst meal," she admitted to Ellen DeGeneres in 2015. "He did eat it, and then he asked me to marry him so obviously he was, I don't know, hallucinating, he realized I couldn't cook."

Cate Blanchett Children

Dashiel John Upton  

The oldest child of Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton was born on December 3, 2001, and his name is Dashiel John Upton. Although the lovebirds prefer to maintain a low profile with their family in order to maintain their privacy, Blanchett recently revealed Dashiel was attending film school on a May 2020 episode of A Podcast of One's Own with Julia Gillard, though she wouldn't say where.

The oldest child of Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton was born on December 3, 2001, and his name is Dashiel John Upton.

The oldest child of Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton was born on December 3, 2001, and his name is Dashiel John Upton.
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"Sometimes I'm asked what the most difficult thing for a parent is," Blanchett told Film News. "I think it's being able to let them go. It's difficult to break away, very difficult, but I'm so proud of my son." To be honest, out of all of my children."

Roman Robert Upton  

Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton's second eldest was born on April 23, 2004. His name is Roman Robert Upton

Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton's second eldest was born on April 23, 2004.

Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton's second eldest was born on April 23, 2004.
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Although the family prefers privacy, Roman has been seen out with his mother on several red carpet occasions, including the Critic's Choice Awards in 2014 and the 2018 SIHH trade show in Geneva, Switzerland, according to the Daily Mail.

Ignatius Martin Upton  

Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton's youngest son, Ignatius Martin Upton, was born on April 13, 2008. Cate revealed in the same interview with Jimmy Kimmel that her son's name came from the popular children's novel series Captain Underpants, revealing that she and her husband Andrew had run out of ideas.

Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton's youngest son, Ignatius Martin Upton, was born on April 13, 2008.

Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton's youngest son, Ignatius Martin Upton, was born on April 13, 2008
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Blanchett revealed that one character in the book, Professor Pee-Pee Poopypants, stood out to her during her third pregnancy, prompting her to consider naming her next child.

"I was eight months pregnant and imagining things," Blanchett explained, "and there's a section in the book where he gets so upset that everyone teases him because his name is Professor Pee-Pee Poopypants that he forces everyone to change their names." 

"They have this internal code, and they give these name examples. You descend to the letter 'I,' and the example is Ignatius. It was as if the Virgin Mary had gone 'Boom!'"

Edith Vivian Patricia Upton  

Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton decided to adopt after having three boys. They adopted a newborn girl named Edith Vivian Patricia in March 2015. 

Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton decided to adopt after having three boys.

Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton decided to adopt after having three boys. 
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Blanchett revealed to Tina Brown of Women in the World in 2015 that she and Andrew "actually began the conversation a very long time ago," after Dashiel was born. "And then we just had two other kids and it sort of dropped off the radar," she added, according to the Daily Mail.

"There are a lot of children out there who don't have the good fortune that our biological children do, so it's wonderful to welcome a little girl into our fold - we're besotted," Cate also told Australian outlet Sky News, according to Today's Parent.

"The Lord Of The Rings" Superstar Cate Blanchett Wiki/Bio

On May 14, 1969, Cate Blanchett was born in Melbourne, Australia. Her mother was a real estate developer, and her father was an officer in the United States Navy. Blanchett's parents met while his ship was stationed in Melbourne for a short time. 

On May 14, 1969, Cate Blanchett was born in Melbourne, Australia.

On May 14, 1969, Cate Blanchett was born in Melbourne, Australia.
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Cate's father passed away from a heart attack when she was ten years old. She went to the University of Melbourne after high school to study economics and fine arts, but she dropped out after a year to travel the world. 

Cate was asked to work as an extra in the Egyptian boxing film Kaboria while in Egypt, and after her travels, she moved to Sydney and enrolled at the National Institute of Dramatic Art, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1992.

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