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Cate Blanchett is a famous Australian actor who has appeared in many films and theater productions. She has worked with renowned directors like Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg. She has won numerous awards for her performances, including two Oscars. Despite her success, she remains humble and always thinks she's finished with a project until someone presents her with a unique and challenging idea. Music is important to her and often serves as a starting point for her acting roles. My cast away this week is the actor Cate Blanchett. She grew up in Melbourne and is arguably the most celebrated actor her home country has ever produced, appearing in more than 70 films and over 20 theatre productions, playing everything from Elizabeth I and Bob Dylan to the elf leader Galadriel in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings. Jackson was so reluctant to let her go, he wrote her into the Hobbit trilogy too. Other directors under her spell include Martin Scorsese, Guillermo del Toro, Steven Soderbergh in Spielberg, David Fincher, Wes Anderson and Todd Field, who wrote her latest Oscar-tipped film, Tar, just for her. She's won acting awards by the dozen. To give you some idea of the numbers, the performance in Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine, that clinched her second Oscar, earned her 39 other prizes, including a Golden Globe and BAFTA. As herself, however, she tends to play things down. She says, every time I finish, I think, that's it, I'm done, I'm moving on to another chapter. And then you have a conversation with someone and they have a wonderful idea and they ask you something that is really weird and impossible and you think, oh, OK. Cate Blanchett, welcome to Desert Island Discs. Thank you. So, Cate, how important is music to you? You've played a version of Bob Dylan and now you're in a film about a conductor. It's often the starting point for me when I'm thinking about a role or an atmosphere that you're stepping into as an actor because it obviously bypasses language.