Who Is Cate Blanchett's Husband? Meet Spouse Andrew Upton

Cate Blanchett has established an Oscar and Golden Globe-winning career as an actress, producer and theatre director. By her side throughout all these years has been her husband, Andrew Upton, with whom she shares one beautiful marriage.

The Carol star and the Australian playwright have been married for more than 20 years, and in addition to their private relationship, the two have worked together throughout their careers. “It’s been a great creative partnership with my husband and also a great love affair. It’s been fantastic,” she gushed to E! News in 2015.

Cate and Andrew couldn’t imagine their lives without each other nowadays, but the Ocean’s Eight alum said they didn’t actually hit it off when they first met in 1996. In fact, Cate told Jay Leno: “He thought I was aloof and I thought he was arrogant.”

“We just didn’t really connect and we were going out with other people, who we’re still friends with and it was always an issue when the four of us went out that Andrew and I had something going on,” she recalled during an appearance on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno in 2015.

However, that all changed when they were caught kissing during a celebrity game of poker shortly after, and according to The List, they were engaged three weeks later. The lovebirds wed the following year in December 1997 during a scenic wedding at Blue Mountains National Park in New South Wales, Australia.

Following their nuptials, the two became the parents of their four kids — Dashiell, Roman, Ignatius and Edith. Since then, they have effortlessly balanced raising their children and juggling their Hollywood careers, but Cate dished parenting was a little tricky when she was in quarantine amid the coronavirus pandemic in May 2020.

“It was like we were in deep space and could not get off the spaceship. I was frightened someone was going to eat someone,” she joked on the “WTF With Marc Maron” podcast at the time. “Your children think you are so annoying and you think, ‘I am not that bad, am I?’ I am always crying. It was one of those where everyone storms off and then you forget it.”

Fortunately, she had some help from Andrew!

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Andrew Is in Hollywood

Similar to Cate, Andrew is a familiar face in Hollywood, having paved a career as a playwright, screenwriter and director. Per IMDb, he wrote, produced and directed Bangers in 1999 and Stories of Lost Souls in 2005, and he also acted in Journey’s End, Manifesto and The Last Time I Saw Michael Gregg.

Andrew Proposed After Cate Cooked Him ‘the Worst Meal’

Less than a month after they pursued their romantic relationship, Cate recalled how she was trying to impress her man by whipping up something fancy in the kitchen. However, it didn’t turn out the way she hoped and she ended up cooking him “the worst meal,” she told Ellen DeGeneres in 2015.

“I somehow decided that to stuff a trout with walnuts and goat’s cheese would be a good idea.” she joked, noting Andrew still got down on one knee. “‘He ate it and then he asked me to marry him, so clearly, he was hallucinating.”

Andrew and Cate Work Together

Aside from their separate Hollywood careers, the pair own a production company together, Dirty Films, where they both serve as artistic directors and CEOs. Per the company’s website, Dirty Films is a “hybrid creative studio and production company made up of directors, dreamers and doers” who “work across campaigns for commercial brands and music videos, while also developing and producing feature films and series for screens of all shapes and sizes.”

Andrew and Cate Always Make It Work

With their kiddos growing up and their careers at the forefront of their minds, it’d be easy for Cate and Andrew to neglect their marriage. However, the Thor: Ragnarok star said she and her beau will always prioritize their romance.

“My husband and I have been together for a long time. It’s wonderful, but it takes work,” she told Radio Times in July 2020. “We’re always biting off more than we can chew, but that’s what makes life interesting.”