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Cate Blanchett, 55, announces plans to retire from acting as she insists she's 'serious about giving up'the profession
She has been treading the boards for over three decades, but Cate Blanchett has declared that she is to retire from acting.
Written by Wallace Shawn, Blanchett will play an unnamed traveller who falls ill in a foreign country riven by civil war. 'That special space was where my 16-year-old encountered Desert Island Discs and now he's completely obsessed with it, and, because the school run is quite long, it's where I listen to long-form radio drama.' Born in Melbourne, Cate started her movie career in Australia but quickly made an international breakthrough in 1998 with one of her first films, the historical drama Elizabeth.
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