Name Andrew Upton Role Playwright | ||
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Marriage location New South Wales, Australia Children Ignatius Martin Upton, Roman Robert Upton, Dashiell John Upton, Edith Vivian Patricia Upton Similar People Cate Blanchett, Ignatius Martin Upton, Hugo Weaving, Rooney Mara, Deborra‑Lee Furness | ||
Andrew upton bids farewell to the sydney theatre company hd abc rn breakfast
Andrew Upton (born 1 February 1966) is an Australian playwright, screenwriter, and director. He is the husband of the two-time Academy Award winner actress Cate Blanchett.
Contents
- Andrew upton bids farewell to the sydney theatre company hd abc rn breakfast
- Cate Blanchett Premieres Uncle Vanya in NYC
- Career
- Personal life
- References
Cate Blanchett Premieres "Uncle Vanya" in NYC
Career
As a playwright, Upton created adaptations of Hedda Gabler, The Cherry Orchard, Cyrano de Bergerac, Don Juan (with Marion Potts), Uncle Vanya, The Maids and Children of the Sun for the Sydney Theatre Company (STC) and Maxim Gorky's The Philistines for London's Royal National Theatre.
His original play Riflemind, with Hugo Weaving as an ageing rock star planning a comeback tour, opened at the STC on 5 October 2007 to favourable reviews. Riflemind opened in London in 2008, directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman but closed after a short run due to uniformly poor notices and the pressure of the Global Financial Crisis. In 2008, Upton and wife Cate Blanchett became joint artistic directors of the Sydney Theatre Company for what became a five-year term.
Upton and Blanchett formed a film production company, Dirty Films, whose projects include the short film Bangers (1999) and the feature film Little Fish (2006). Upton wrote, produced, and directed Bangers, which starred Blanchett. He was the associate producer on Little Fish, which also starred Blanchett. In 2006, he wrote the film Gone which was directed by Ringan Ledwidge. Upton wrote the libretto to Alan John's opera Through the Looking Glass which premiered with Victorian Opera in May 2008.
In June, 2014, Upton was recognised with the Rotary Professional Excellence Award, an award instituted "to honour a person who has demonstrated consistent professional excellence in his or her chosen vocation by contributing to the benefit of the wider community beyond their typical workplace role".
Personal life
Andrew Upton and Cate Blanchett met in 1996 on the set of a TV show, and were married on 29 December 1997. They have four children: biological sons Dashiell John (born 3 December 2001), Roman Robert (born 23 April 2004), Ignatius Martin (born 13 April 2008), and adopted daughter Edith Vivian Patricia, whose adoption was confirmed on 6 March 2015.
They lived in Hunters Hill, New South Wales, Australia for many years. Following the sale of their property there in late 2015, Upton and Blanchett purchased in early 2016 a historic $6.25 million English manor, Highwell House, in East Sussex, England. Variety has reported that around the same time the couple also purchased a modern-minded five-bedroom duplex apartment in downtown Sydney once owned by drag entertainer Barry Humphries, and purchased from The Celebrity Apprentice Australia host Mark Bouris for an amount "somewhere in the neighborhood of $8 million".
