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Category 36-40, TALENT SEMI-FINAL ROUND 1: Cate Blanchett vs. Christina Applegate

Cate by Reeyo

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Her first major stage role was opposite Geoffrey Rush in the 1993 play Oleanna, for which she won the Sydney Theatre Critics' Best Newcomer Award. She also appeared as Ophelia in an acclaimed 1994–95 Company B production of Hamlet. Blanchett appeared in the TV mini-series Heartland, the mini-series Bordertown, and in an episode of Police Rescue. She also appeared in the 1994 telemovie of Police Rescue and in the 50 minute drama Parklands (1996), which received a limited release in Australian cinemas.

Blanchett made her international film debut with a supporting role in 1997 film Paradise Road. Her first leading role, also in 1997, was in Oscar and Lucinda. She win an AFI Award as Supporting Actress in the same year for her role in Thank God He Met Lizzie.

Her first high-profile international role was as Elizabeth I of England in the 1998 movie Elizabeth, which earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. She won a British Academy (BAFTA) Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama. The following year, Blanchett was nominated for another BAFTA Award for her supporting role in The Talented Mr. Ripley.

Already an acclaimed actress, Blanchett received a host of new fans when she appeared in The Lord of the Rings, which hold the record as the highest grossing film trilogy of all time. In 2004, she played in film The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, yet again earning a nomination for BFCA award for Best Acting Ensemble.

In 2005, she won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for playing Katharine Hepburn in Martin Scorsese's The Aviator.

In 2006, she starred in Babel and Notes on a Scandal. Blanchett received her third Academy Award nomination for her performance in the film.

In 2007, she won the Volpi Cup Best Actress Award at the Venice Film Festival and the Best Supporting Actress Golden Globe Award for portraying one of six incarnations of Bob Dylan in I'm Not There and also reprised her role as Elizabeth I in the sequel to Elizabeth entitled Elizabeth: the Golden Age. At the 80th Annual Academy Awards Blanchett received two Academy Award nominations including Best Actress for Elizabeth: the Golden Age and Best Supporting Actress for I'm Not There.

She next appeared on screen in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and will appear in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, at the end of 2007.

2009 Fantastic Mr. Fox

(wikipedia)

Christina by Julia

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Christina landed on the big screen at age nine when she was seen in the 1981 films Jaws of Satan and Beatlemania. Applegate debuted in a television movie in Grace Kelly (1983) and appeared on her first TV series in political comedy Washingtoon (1985). She was also spotted as a guest in the shows Father Murphy (1981) and Charles in Charge (1984 and 1985). In 1986, Applegate won the role in the police drama series Heart of the City. Meanwhile, she was also seen guest starring in the sitcoms All is Forgiven, Still the Beaver, Amazing Stories, and Family Ties.

Applegate eventually scored her most memorable role of ditzy Kelly Bundy in comedy series Married... with Children. She portrayed her character for ten years (1987-1997) in the successful sitcom. While working on the series, Applegate was seen in Dance 'Til Dawn (1988, NBC) and in Streets (1990). Applegate guest-starred in 21 Jump Street (1988), Top of the Heap (1991).

Her first starring role aes in Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991). She followed it up with films such as Vibrations (1995), Across the Moon (1995), Wild Bill (1995), Mars Attacks! (1996), and Nowhere (1997). After the sitcom Married... with Children was canceled in May 1997, Applegate starred in the independent feature Claudine's Return (a.k.a. Kiss of Fire), was cast in the action-comedy The Big Hit, and played the fiancée of a Mob descendant in the Mafia satire Jane Austen's Mafia (1998).

In that same year, NBC handed her the leading in their sitcom with the same title. The series debuted in 1998, received rave reviews, and brought Applegate a People's Choice Award for Favorite Female Performer in a New TV series and the TV Guide Award for Star of a New Series as well as a nomination at the Golden Globe for Lead Actress in a Comedy. Though the series gained praise, it was canceled in 2000.

The new millennium saw Applegate playing in Just Visiting (2001). After gaining wide notice for in The Sweetest Thing (2002), she continued to win roles in such movies as Heroes (2002), View from the Top (2003), Wonderland (2003), Grand Theft Parsons (2003), Surviving Christmas (2004) and Employee of the Month (2004).

Applegate also guest-starred on two episodes of Friends, in the ninth (2002) and tenth (2003) seasons. She won the 55th Annual Prime Time Emmy Award for Best Guest Actress in a Comedy for her performance in "The One with Rachel's Other Sister". On the silver screen, she portrayed in the 2004 films Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy and the DVD bonus film Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie.

Christina is currently starring in the ABC comedy, Samantha Who?.

2008 The Rocker

2009 Everything Is Going to Be Just Fine

Guest starring

Reno 911! (2008)

(wikipedia)

WHICH ONE IS MORE TALENTED?

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