Sydney, Sep 4 - Actress Cate Blanchett has provided support to the launch of a new rainwater collection system in Sydney.

The "Curious Case of Benjamin Button" star lent support to the Sydney Theatre Company's latest green initiative, which captures rainwater from the roof and stores it to service the building's showers and toilets, reports dailystar. co. uk.

London, May 7 - Australian actress Cate Blanchett believes it is more important to be a mother rather than a friend to her three sons.

Los Angeles, Dec 9 - Australian actress Cate Blanchett has been signed for a role in director Peter Jackson's adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy epic "The Hobbit".

She will play the role of the ethereal elf Galadriel, that she played in Jackson's "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, reports imdb. com.

The announcement of Blanchett's casting comes as something of a surprise, since the character of Galadriel doesn't actually appear in Tolkien's novel. (IANS)

London, Dec 3 : Actress Cate Blanchett isn't interested in plastic surgery because she doesn't want to look younger than her age.

"There is so much pressure and fear to do all that surgery stuff but I am really not interested in looking 25 again," femalefirst. co. uk quoted 41-year-old Blanchett as saying.

"There is a temptation when you get older to put on more make-up, but I try to keep mine looking natural," she added.(IANS)

Sydney, Sept 6 : Cate Blanchett and hubby Andrew Upton—Co-directors of the Sydney Theatre Company—consider environmental conservation as their foremost priority.

The couple has reportedly spent more than 1.5 million dollars installing water- and energy-saving technology at their Hunters Hill home.

New York, July 20 : Cate Blanchett still wants to star in ‘Cancer Vixen’—the graphic novel she optioned by Marisa Acocella Marchetto when it was published in 2006.

Marchetto, the self-described "shoe-crazy, lip stick-obsessed, wine-swilling, pasta-slurping, fashion- fanatic", wrote the book about her battle against breast cancer as she falls in love with and marries restaurateur Silvano Marchetto.

However, the option expired, leaving the project in limbo.

London, June 26 : Cate Blanchett theatre is ''going green'' with the launch of an eco-friendly construction project at her Sydney Theatre Company headquarters in Australia.

Blanchett has thrown her support behind the ''Greening the Wharf'' initiative, under which 1,900 solar panels would be installed in The Wharf Theatre at Sydney''s Walsh Bay.

The panels would provide 70 per cent of the theatre''s electricity needs.

London, May 18 - Australian actress Cate Blanchett, who features alongside Russell Crowe in the just released "Robin Hood", says she welcomes criticism from her straight-talking husband, playwright Andrew Upton.

London, May 13 : Australian actress Cate Blanchett paid tribute to late designer Alexander McQueen at the opening of the Cannes International Film Festival in France by wearing one of his dresses.

The 40-year-old walked the red carpet in a dress that the designer had personally selected for her before his death, reports express. co. uk.

Melbourne, May 13 : Australian actor Cate Blanchett has revealed that she wanted to play the part of Robin Hood rather than Maid Marion in the new Ridley Scott action blockbuster film.

“To be honest, Olivia de Havilland (a former Marion) was a great beauty but I always wanted to be Robin Hood rather than Maid Marion, but the part was taken,” Blanchett confided to hundreds of reporters at a packed press conference after the movie kicked off the Cannes Film Festival.

London, March 3 : Cate Blanchett has confessed she has all her priorities in order, with her kids topping her main concerns before anything else.

The Oscar-winning actress revealed her pick of movies was now determined by her kids'' school holidays.

"With my film choices it used to be a question of, ''Who''s directing it?'' Now it''s, ''How long is the shoot and where are they filming?''" the Daily Express quoted her as telling Style magazine.

London, Jan 4 : Aussie actress Cate Blanchett and her writer husband Andrew Upton have been credited with transforming the Sydney Theatre Company.

Blanchett, 40, and Upton, 43, had started at the theatre two years ago as artistic directors.

The two, who have agreed to extend their tenure until 2013, managed to bring the talents of director Steven Soderbergh and actor Philip Seymour Hoffman to the group.

Melbourne, Jan 1 : Cate Blanchett and her playwright husband Andrew Upton will continue as the artistic directors of Sydney Theatre Company (STC) until the end of 2013.

The acclaimed actress and her husband began their three-year term with STC in 2008.

"It is a really great privilege to lead Sydney Theatre Company," the Australian quoted the pair as saying in a statement.

London, Dec 25 : Cate Blanchett’s Brighton home, including her designer bathtub, has been put up for sale.

The 40-year-old beauty had moved to the pad a few years back and a whole street had been closed off when the huge bathtub was brought into the house.

The Aussie actress later sold the mansion to songwriter Richard Stannard.

Washington, Nov 28 : She might be a movie star, but Hollywood actress Cate Blanchett insists she loves doing household chores and raising her three sons.

The Oscar winner says she loves doing daily chore of vacuuming.

"I enjoy vacuuming," People magazine quoted Blanchett as saying.

"It''s a very satisfying noise when you hear all that grit sucked up from the floor and into the machine.

New Delhi, June 30 : Having kids may be the most wonderful experience for many women, but for Cate Blanchett its much more than that - an addiction.

While attending the Australian premiere of ‘Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull’ at the Greater Union Cinemas in Sydney May 21, 2008, the actress – who recently gave birth to third son Ignatius Martin with her husband Andrew Upton – said that the couple can't wait to further expand their brood.

London, May 29 : Aussie actress Cate Blanchett has publicly defended an artist and his portraits of nude children, which have caused a censorship row in Australia.

The person responsible for the pictures is photographer Bill Henson and police have shut down his exhibition, seized the images and are even considering charging him.

London, May 28 : Cate Blanchett’s pals like nothing more than posing with the Oscar she won in 2005.

The British actress bagged the prestigious award for her portrayal of Katharine Hepburn in ‘The Aviator’, co-starring Leonardo DiCaprio.

Melbourne, May 25 : Russia's Communist party has slammed Cate Blanchett by branding her a ‘second-rate actor’ and a ‘running dog of the CIA’, for her role in the new Indiana Jones film.

The leaders of the party said that the movie is crude anti-Soviet propaganda that distorts history and have called for it to be banned from Russian theatres.

‘Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull,’ directed by Steven Spielberg, is the fourth movie in the lucrative movie franchise that began in 1981.

Melbourne, Apr 14 : Hollywood actress Cate Blanchett has given birth to her third child in Australia.

The baby boy, Ignatius Martin Upton, was delivered in Sydney on April 13 and became the third son for Blanchett and her playwright husband Andrew Upton.

Melbourne, Apr 4 : Young Sydney artists have found support in one of Hollywood’s star couple - Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton - who’re selling two valuable works from their personal art collection in a bid to reinvest the money in works by local upcoming artists.

The actress and her playwright husband have got their eyes on supporting a new wave of artists.

Washington, Mar 10: Australian actress Cate Blanchett will be taking part in Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire".

The show, which will be directed by Norwegian actress turned director Liv Ullmann, is a part of the Sydney Theatre Company's 2009 season, reported Variety.

Washington, Feb 1: Australian actress Cate Blanchett was stunned to have been mistaken by Prince Philip for a film technician.

The Oscar-winning actress got the shock of her life when the British monarch's husband asked her to fix his DVD player.

Washington, Jan 31: Australian actress Cate Blanchett was stunned to have been mistaken by Prince Philip for a film technician.

The Oscar-winning actress got the shock of her life when the British monarch's husband asked her to fix his DVD player.

Washington, Jan 28: Actress Cate Blanchett paid tribute to Heath Ledger acknowledging him as an extraordinary actor.

Blanchett, who starred in the film ‘I'm Not There’ with Ledger, said although they never shot scenes together she still remembers him as a cheerful person during production.