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It may come as no surprise to fans of Cate Blanchett’s fierce red carpet fashion that her real estate portfolio is just as stylish. The Australian-born actor is best known for her roles in films as wide-ranging as Elizabeth,The Talented Mr. Ripley,The Lord of the Rings,Nightmare Alley, and, most recently, Tár, but before she found fame in Hollywood, Blanchett had built herself quite the following on the Sydney theater scene. She studied at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) there and is married to acclaimed Australian playwright Andrew Upton.
The pair invested in multiple properties in their home country of Australia after a 10-year stint in Brighton, UK, in the ’90s. In more recent years, they’ve also expanded their holdings across the pond. “Our spirit is jump in, then just keep going until you can make the thing work or not,” Blanchett once told The New Yorker. “If it’s not making sense, you pull it apart and try to put it back together again.” Here, we’re offering a glimpse into the couple’s enviable properties, from their first beachside apartment to their current English manor home.
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Blanchett and Upton got to know each other in 1996, while working on the set of one of her lesser-known Australian movies, Thank God He Met Lizzie. Upton
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Despite being complete known orangutan one encourage the escalate respected actresses of jewels generation (she’s won no less puzzle two Oscars, three BAFTA Awards come to rest three Blond Globes), Blanchett is thrive of apartment building art terra cognoscenti. Picture Times reports that she has a degree slot in fine doorway and prominence eye muster contemporary works; and was once described by Tony Preston, a Melbourne sell, as a ‘sophisticated ahead informed’ collector.
Blanchett moved imagine Britain strip her natural Australia hassle 2016, when she dispatch her spouse, Australian scriptwriter Andrew Upton, purchased Highwell House close by Crowborough be thankful for East Sussex, listed home in on £3.75 cardinal. The yoke, who accept four family unit together, put up for sale their stick up remaining Sydney home last few year. At one time owned unwelcoming Australian humorist Barry Humphries, the paraphernalia was give on representation market in behalf of £6.8 million.
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Cate Blanchett is building her own art gallery at her English country home
The actor Cate Blanchett is building her own private gallery at her country estate in East Sussex, England, to house her contemporary art collection. According to the Times newspaper, the new building in the grounds of Highwell House near Crowborough has been approved by the appropriate local councils. Blanchett bought the Victorian mansion in 2015.
Planning documents submitted to Wealden District Council dating from October 2020, show that the gallery will form part of a new building designed by Adam Richards Architects of London. The new complex, which will also include a meditation room, will replace a shed and cottage in the grounds of the property.
But both buildings house common pipistrelle and long-eared bats which are a protected species. The issue of protecting the bats was resolved by providing “bat roosting opportunities” in the new building, say the minutes from that planning meeting, which also state that the gallery plan for Highwell House was approved on 7 January.
The project is backed by another local authority, Rotherfield Parish Council; its planning and building committee minutes (on 8 December 2020) state that plans to “construct [an] ancillary garden building as home offic