Superstar Couples

Actress Cate Blanchett isn’t that celebrity who always photographed with her family. In fact, you never notice that she always tags along her husband and two kids, the playwright Andrew Upton, in every event.

But she seems to be fine with it. And her brood too.

The two met in 1996 while she performed in a production of “The Seagull.” In 1997, they were married.

According to Cate it was not love at first sight.

“He thought I was aloof and I thought he was arrogant. It just shows you how wrong you can be. But once he kissed me that was that.”

They have two children–Dashiell John, 6, and Roman Robert, 3, who suffered from a minor burn injury on May 15, 2005 while the family was in Marrakech, Morocco, for the filming of the movie “Babel.”

The couple is not only partners in love but also in artistic passion. Both are artistic directors of the Sydney Theatre Company.

After her convincing performance as Bob Dylan, she is now back as Queen Elizabeth I with director Shekhar Kapur with Clive Owen as the adventurer Sir Walter Raleigh. Yesterday, they premiered the movie at Gibson Amphitheater-Universal City Walk in California.

Cate Blanchett, Andrew Upton, Clive Owen, Shekhar Kapur, Elizabeth I

Love knows no boundaries. In show business it is also the same.

Perhaps, I am making a big deal out of interracial couples. Though it is very possible and it is a reality and happening, we can’t hide the fact that there is still discrimination when it comes to two individuals bearing different skin colours. They are often hailed and ostracised at the same time.

I should know. I am one of them, sans fame. And you do everything such as moving on to another country to prove that, to be with the one you love.

In the case of famous Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi she didn’t change her nationality. She has just “emigrated” to Hong Kong from Beijing thus changing her passport of ex-British colony in order to move around the world freely. The following could be counted as her reasons: to further her career as a foreign artist and to be able to meet her boyfriend at the moment, the Israeli multimillionaire Aviv “Vivi” Nuevo, who lives in New York, United States.

Zhang has already obtained the coveted permission of residence in Hong Kong, so difficult to obtain for many of its compatriots, with it she can travel without a visa to 134 visa countries (with Chinese passport, nevertheless, it is necessary to obtain visa stops most of those nations).

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