The only actress to win an Oscar for playing a real-life Academy Award winner is Cate Blanchett. She is an actress who was born on May 14, 1969 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, to June (Gamble), an Australian teacher and property developer, and Robert DeWitt Blanchett, Jr., an American advertising executive, originally from Texas. She has an older brother and a younger sister. When she was ten years old, her 40-year-old father died of a sudden heart attack.

Blanchett has now received international acclaim and many accolades for roles that she played in films such as Elizabeth (1998), Notes on a Scandal (2006), Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007), I'm Not There (2007) and Carol (2015). Some other notable films include: The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001–03) and The Hobbit trilogy (2012–14), Babel (2006), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014), and Cinderella (2015).

Her true portrayal of Katharine Hepburn in Martin Scorsese's 2004 film, The Aviator, brought her great critical acclaim, including the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. This is the role that made her the only actress to win an Oscar for portraying another Oscar-winning actor.

In 2009, she also won Awards for Best Director and Best Picture for The Hurt Locker. Lately, in 2013, she played Jasmine Francis in Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine. She again won awards including the Academy Award for Best Actress.

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