Cate Blanchett: who is Andrew Upton, the husband of the president of the Cannes 2018 jury?

The actress Cate Blanchett married the man of her life, Andrew Upton on December 29, 1997. Things went both fast and slow between them. On the haste side, Cate Blanchett confessed that the couple slept together three short days after their first date and got engaged a few weeks later. But on the set ofEllen DeGeneres in 2015, Cate Blanchett nevertheless confessed that she had known for years Andrew Upton and that their relationship hadn’t really been love at first sight. “We didn’t like each other for quite a while, almost 17 years. We had met at parties, but it didn’t really fit between us.“

Andrew Upton52, is Australian like his beauty and exercises the triple profession of playwright, screenwriter and producer. Andrew Upton And Cate Blanchett, who have lived in England since 2016, have worked together regularly for years. They created in tandem a production company, Dirty Films, and Andrew Upton for example scripted and produced the film carol starring in 2015 Cate Blanchett And Rooney Mara.

After delivering many theatrical adaptations, including one in English of Cyrano de Bergerac, Andrew Upton started writing his own plays. In 2007 he caused a sensation in Australia with the play Riflemind featuring Hugo Weaving who embodied an old glory of rock hoping for a comeback. At the movie theater, Andrew Upton was part of the development team of Babe the pig turned shepherd and also wrote the thriller Goneplayed in particular by Shaun Evans.

Cate Blanchett And Andrew Upton are raising four children. They had three sons together: Dashiell (born in December 2001), Novel (born in April 2004), Ignatius (born April 2008) and adopted a daughter, Edithin March 2015.

Slideshow produced by Sandric Vasseur.