‘Carol’ star Cate Blanchett reveals her age in actress years, social awkwardness

Cate Blanchett is the star of Todd Haynes’s romantic drama film “Carol,” which will hit theatres on Nov. 20. In a recent interview, the Academy Award winner talked about her career and her husband Andrew Upton, who is a playwright and screenwriter .

“I think he would say I’ve got better at my job, that I’ve learned to get out of my own way a bit more,” Blanchett told The Guardian when asked about what her husband would say she has changed in the past two decades. “ I think perhaps he would say I’m a little less socially awkward.”

According to Blanchett, she used to be so socially awkward that she does not know what to say when she walks into a room. She said she hopes her husband noticed how less socially awkward she has become.

Blanchett also pointed out that actress years are like dog years; so that makes her about 120 years old. Born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, the award-winning “Carol” actress is turning 47 on May 14, 2016.

Married on Dec. 29, 1997, Blanchett and Upton have three biological sons and one adopted daughter. The Academy Award winner and the “ National Theatre Live: The Cherry Orchard ” screenplay writer met on the set of a TV show in 1996.

In 2008, Blanchett and Upton became co-artistic directors of the Sydney theatre company, a move she considered a gamble. She said when she stepped away to run the theatre company, many people told her it was a mistake but for her, it has made her a better actor.

Recently, it was announced that the “Carol” star will receive the Desert Palm Achievement Award for actresses from The Palm Springs International Film Festival . The awards gala will be held on Jan. 2, Variety reported.

Along with Blanchett, “Carol” also stars Rooney Mara, Cory Michael Smith, Kyle Chandler, Jake Lacy, Sarah Paulson, Carrie Brownstein and John Magaro, among others. As an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s 1950s novel titled “The Price of Salt,” the film is set in New York in the 1950s.

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