Cate Blanchett, 55, stuns in a green three-piece suit as she leads stars at National Theatre after announcing plans to retire from acting

Daily Mail​

29-04-2025

Cate Blanchett turned heads as she led the stars at the National Theatre 2025 Season Launch in London on Tuesday evening.
The Oscar-winning actress, 55, who recently declared that she is to retire from acting, looked incredible in a satin green three-piece suit.
The stunning ensemble featured tailored trousers, a longline blazer, and a plunging waistcoat.
She teamed the stylish look with a pair of classic white trainers and pulled her golden locks into a low up-do.
Earlier in the evening, the star appeared in high spirits as she was spotted arriving at the event before posing up a storm on the red carpet.
Also at the event were the likes of Fay Ripley, Fiona Shaw, Olivia Williams, Stephen Mangan, Mark Gatiss and Rosalie Craig.
It comes after Cate revealed her plans to retire from acting after treading the boards for over three decades.
Earlier this month, the star hesitated about her job title during an interview with Radio Times, explaining: 'It's because I'm giving up [acting]. My family roll their eyes every time I say it, but I mean it. I am serious about giving up acting.'
Cate insisted she had 'a lot of things I want to do with my life' other than appearing on screen.
The Australian star, who recently starred in an adaptation of Chekov's The Seagull at London's Barbican, did not give a timeframe on her departure from the entertainment industry.
But it is not the first time that she has threatened to quit her career despite her international acclaim.
She told Vanity Fair in 2023 that she has often toyed with the idea of walking away from her acting work.
She said: 'It's not occasional — it's continual. On a daily or weekly basis, for sure.
'It's a love affair, isn't it? So you do fall in and out of love with it, and you have to be seduced back into it.'
Also at the event was Fay Ripley (left), Fiona Shaw (right), Olivia Williams, Stephen Mangan , Mark Gatiss and Rosalie Craig.
Mark Gatiss and Rosalie Craig were all smiles together at the event as the embraced each other on the red carpet
Despite her latest declaration, the Lord of the Rings star is set to feature in her first radio play on Radio 4 on Saturday in a 90-minute monologue titled The Fever.
Written by Wallace Shawn, Blanchett will play an unnamed traveller who falls ill in a foreign country riven by civil war.
The mother-of-four explained why she had chosen to embark on her first audio radio project.
She told the Radio Times: 'I'm obsessed with the psychological space that is the interior of people's cars.
'Often the most profound and intense and memorable conversations that I have with my children are in the car.'
'That special space was where my 16-year-old encountered Desert Island Discs and now he's completely obsessed with it, and, because the school run is quite long, it's where I listen to long-form radio drama.'
Cate has racked up thousands of rave reviews over the last 30 years after working tirelessly across dozens of projects in theatre, film and TV.
Cate revealed her big plans in the April 19-25 issue of Radio Times
A regular on the global awards circuit, Blanchett has received major prizes from all over the world, including two Oscars, three BAFTAs, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, an Order of Australia, and in France a Chevalier, for her contribution to the arts.
Born in Melbourne, Cate started her movie career in Australia but quickly made an international breakthrough in 1998 with one of her first films, the historical drama Elizabeth.
By the early 2000s, global audiences knew her from the blockbuster Lord of the Rings series. She later appeared in the Hobbit trilogy.
She won great praise and a best supporting Oscar for playing Hollywood great Kate Hepburn in Martin Scorsese's Howard Hughes biopic The Aviator in 2005.
In 2013, she won her first best actress Academy Award in the Woody Allen film Blue Jasmine.