Gina Wilhelm Actress - Good Actress Streep Makes True A List
Forbes magazine has compiled a "True A List" of actors and actresses in Hollywood today.
To do so, they looked at the actors and actresses who had been nominated for Oscars in the past five years. They then tallied their box office draws for the same types of roles.
The list of Oscar-winning women was topped by Cate Blanchett, who has received four nominations in the past five years.
However, when box office draw was figured in, Meryl Streep was the clear leading lady, with two Oscar nominations in the last five years and $1.3 billion in ticket sales.
Streep ranked fifth overall, behind Will Smith. Blanchett doesn't even make the top 10 overall, due to critically acclaimed but under-attended films like "I'm Not There" and "Elizabeth: The Golden Age."
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Monday, December 22, 2008
Cate Blanchett's Influences
Gina Wilhelm Actress
Cate Blanchett's life has given her a lot of material from which to draw for her performance in "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button."
The story is told in flashback from her character's hospital room. The character is seen from childhood (played by a different actress) through adulthood and into her 80s (played by Blanchett).
Blanchett took some of her inspiration (and mannerisms) for her character at the end of her life from her own grandmother.
Additionally, her first job as an adolescent was in a senior citizen's home, which provided further development for her character.
Of course, she also gives much credit to the film's makeup team.
As an adult, the character is a dancer. Blanchett studied ballet, though only through childhood. She did almost all her own movement in the movie except for a few shots using a stand-in including a rapid sequence of steps.
Known for frequent performance in period pieces ("Elizabeth," "Elizabeth: The Golden Age," "The Aviator," "I'm Not There"), she will next be playing the title role in "Richard II" on stage in her native Australia.
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" opens December 25th and has received a SAG Award nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
Gina Wilhelm Actress
Cate Blanchett's life has given her a lot of material from which to draw for her performance in "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button."
The story is told in flashback from her character's hospital room. The character is seen from childhood (played by a different actress) through adulthood and into her 80s (played by Blanchett).
Blanchett took some of her inspiration (and mannerisms) for her character at the end of her life from her own grandmother.
Additionally, her first job as an adolescent was in a senior citizen's home, which provided further development for her character.
Of course, she also gives much credit to the film's makeup team.
As an adult, the character is a dancer. Blanchett studied ballet, though only through childhood. She did almost all her own movement in the movie except for a few shots using a stand-in including a rapid sequence of steps.
Known for frequent performance in period pieces ("Elizabeth," "Elizabeth: The Golden Age," "The Aviator," "I'm Not There"), she will next be playing the title role in "Richard II" on stage in her native Australia.
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" opens December 25th and has received a SAG Award nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
Gina Wilhelm Actress
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