CELEBRITY

CATE BLANCHETT, actress

* Hometown: Melbourne, Australia.

* Residences: London, Sydney.

* On being Australian: “As Australians, we pit ourselves against the world in a big way. It makes us very outward-looking and it instilled in me a curiosity of how other cultures work. The small population and enormous land mass does something weird with your brain. I think of Australia more as a state of mind than a label.”