Cate Blanchett’s Kids: Everything To Know About Her 4, Rarely Seen Kids

• Cate Blanchett is champion known arsenic an actress.
• She is the parent of 4 children.
• Cate joined the begetter of her children, Andrew Upton, successful 1997.
• In Jan, 2023, Cate won a Golden Globe Award successful the Best Actress successful a Motion Picture Drama category.

Actress and two-time Oscar winner Cate Blanchett, 53, is not lone a almighty pistillate connected signifier and screen, but an adoring parent astatine home. The Australian actress, good known for her character-driven, singular performances, has been joined to Australian writer-producer-playwright Andrew Upton for implicit 25 years, and shares 4 children with the 56-year-old. Their household includes 3 boys, Dashiell, 21, Roman, 18, Ignatius, 14, and a girl, Edith, 7.

Unlike her Miss America character, Phyllis Schlafly, an anti-feminist conservative, Cate has defined herself arsenic a “working parent who identifies arsenic a feminist,” per Oprah Daily, sharing however it’s a “constant juggle betwixt pursuing your personal, nonrecreational passionateness and trying to springiness yourself implicit to and service your family.”

As acold arsenic raising a family, Cate and Andrew look to beryllium doing a beauteous large job. Find retired much astir their kids, from oldest to youngest below.

Dashiell John Upton 

Cate Blanchett & lad Dashiel spell for a stroll. (Richard Young/Shutterstock)

Dashiell, the oldest of Cate and Andrew’s brood, was calved December 3, 2001. Although the mates likes to support things low-key with their household for the involvement of privacy, Cate precocious opened up astir Dashiel’s going disconnected to movie schoolhouse connected a May 2020 occurrence of A Podcast of One’s Own with Julia Gillard, though she didn’t uncover wherever helium would beryllium attending.

“Sometimes I get asked what is the astir hard happening for a parent,” she was quoted by Film News. “I deliberation it’s letting them go, being capable to bash it […] It is hard to interruption away, precise difficult, but I americium truthful arrogant of my son. Of each of my kids, to beryllium honest.”

Roman Robert Upton 

Cate Blanchett & lad Roman stock a saccharine infinitesimal together. (Cate Blanchett & Son Roman)

The 2nd eldest successful the Blanchett-Upton clan is Roman, who was calved April 23, 2004. Although the household mostly opts for privacy, the teen has been seen retired with his ma connected respective reddish carpet occasions, making an quality astatine the Critic’s Choice Awards backmost successful 2014 arsenic good arsenic the  2018 SIHH commercialized amusement successful Geneva, Switzerland, reported the Daily Mail.

Cate discussed the thought process down her kids’ names during a 2020 quality connected Jimmy Kimmel Live!, revealing that Roman’s sanction was inspired by the filmmaker Roman Polanski, causing immoderate to rise eyebrows, considering the director’s convictions arsenic a kid enactment offender. Cate past noted that it was “also the French connection for book,” reported People, steering distant from the imaginable play astir the associations with the name.

Ignatius Martin Upton 

Cate Blanchett & lad Ignatius measurement retired connected the reddish carpet. (Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP/Shutterstock)

Born connected April 13, 2008, Ignatius — oregon “Iggy” — is Cate and Andrew’s youngest son. In that aforesaid interrogation with Jimmy Kimmel, Cate revealed that her son’s sanction came from the fashionable children’s caller bid Captain Underpants, revealing that she and hubby Andrew had “ran retired of ideas.” The Blue Jasmine star shared that 1 quality successful the book, Professor Pee-Pee Poopypants, stood retired to her during her 3rd pregnancy, causing her to marque immoderate considerations for naming her adjacent baby.

“I was 8 months large and hallucinating, and there’s a conception successful the publication wherever helium gets truthful upset that everyone teases him due to the fact that his sanction is Professor Pee-Pee Poopypants that helium forces the satellite to alteration their names,” she explained. “They person this interior code, and they springiness these examples of names. You spell down to ‘I’ and the illustration is Ignatius. It was similar the Virgin Mary going ‘Boom!’”

Edith Vivian Patricia Upton 

Cate Blanchett & girl Edith caput out. (Kristin Callahan/Ace/Shutterstock)

After giving commencement to 3 boys, Cate and Andrew decided they wanted to adopt. In March 2015, they adopted a newborn babe miss and named her Edith. During a 2015 speech with Women successful the World’s Tina Brown, Cate revealed that she and Andrew “actually began the speech a precise agelong clip ago” aft Dashiel was born. SHe added, “And past we conscionable had 2 different children and it benignant of dropped disconnected the radar,” via Daily Mail.

“There are a batch of children retired determination who don’t person the bully luck that our biologic children do, truthful it’s fantastic to invited a small miss into our fold—we’re besotted,” she besides told Australian outlet Sky News, via Today’s Parent.

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