For the sake of their family and to provide a more stable environment, Cate and Andrew have chosen to stay closer to their home in Australia.
Here is information about the marriage of Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton.
News Updates:
4/13/08: Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton's third son, Ignatius Martin, was born on 4/13/08 at a Sydney hospital.
Catherine "Cate" Elise Blanchett: May 14, 1969 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Andrew Upton: Australia.
Cate first met Andrew in 1996 when she was in Chekov's The Seagull.
Cate on how it wasn't love at first sight: "He thought I was aloof and I thought he was arrogant. It just shows you how wrong you can be. But once he kissed me that was that."
Source: HelloMagazine.com
Cate and Andrew were married on December 29, 1997 in the Blue Mountains National Park of New South Wales, Australia.
Andrew and Cate have two children.
- Dashiell John Upton: Born December 3, 2001 in London England.
- Roman Robert Upton: Born on April 23, 2004 in London, England.
- Ignatius Martin Upton: Born on April 13, 2008 in Sydney, Australia.
Cate: Actress and producer.
Andrew: Writer, director, editor, playwright, screenwriter, and producer.
In January 2008, Cate and Andrew will be joint artistic directors of Australia's Sydney Theatre Company.
Before they moved to Sydney, they lived in the Kemp Town area of Brighton, England. Cate and Andrews moved back to Sydney, Australia in 2006 and purchased a 1877 sandstone riverfront mansionin the lower North Shore suburb of hunters Hill.
They are “greening” their home in Sydney’s leafy Hunters Hill: installing solar power, rainwater tanks and so forth. The couple also hope to get the STC off the power grid in the coming few years, again through the use of solar power and suchlike."
Source: News.com.au
Suzanne Wangmann, journalist, 12/06: "In Upton, she found a soul mate and a voice of reality in a tinsel world."
Source: News.com.au
Source: MyVillage.co.uk
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Cate on being attracted to men: “Also, in terms of my attraction to the opposite sex, I just don’t understand women who go out with men who are (even) five years younger than them; it’s not something I relate to. I would understand sleeping with a 60 year-old more."
Source: TheImproper.com
Shekhar Kapur: “I have rarely seen a husband so supportive of his wife’s success. Cate is one of the luckiest girls to have Andrew.”
Source: TheImproper.com
