Cate Blanchett

Went into acting after a trip to Egypt, where she was spotted and asked to be an extra in a boxing film. Firstborn son, Dashiell, was named after crime novelist Dashiell Hammett. Fainted while being fitted for a prosthetic belly to play a pregnant journalist in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, and learned a few weeks later that she was pregnant with her second son. Brought one of Katharine Hepburn's white-silk evening gloves to the 77th annual Academy Awards ceremony for good luck--it paid… Show more off with a win for her role as Hepburn in The Aviator . ~ Rovi

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