With two Oscars and a shelf full of Golden Globe, BAFTA, AACTA and Helpmann awards, Cate Blanchett is used to being honoured for her acting talent.
But her work in other parts of her life – heading arts organisations, being a role model and supporting causes – has contributed to her being appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia in the Queen's Birthday Honours List.
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There are astronomers, politicians, economists and aviation experts recognised as part of the Queen's Birthday honours, but Cate Blanchett is the only woman to receive a Companion of the Order of Australia.
Blanchett is being recognised for her "eminent service to the performing arts as an international stage and screen actor through seminal contributions as director of artistic organisations", as well as for being "a role model for women and young performers, and as a supporter of humanitarian and environmental causes".
Fittingly enough, the honour comes as Blanchett is heading for yet another acting honour, with a nomination at the Tony Awards for her role in The Present, husband Andrew Upton's adaptation of a Chekhov play.
As well as being co-chief executive and co-artistic director of the Sydney Theatre Company from 2008 to 2013, Blanchett is a director of the Sydney Theatre Company Foundation and a Global Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees – travelling to Lebanon to meet Syrian refugees and speaking at the Women In The World Conference in New Delhi in 2015.
She is an ambassador for the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts, an ambassador for the Australian Conservation Foundation, patron of Sydney Film Festival and former patron of SolarAid, a charity that provides solar lights to families without electricity in Africa.
She was awarded a Centenary Medal "for service to Australian society through acting" in 2000 and a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters in France in 2012. She is a fellow of the British Film Institute and an honorary Doctor of Letters at the University of Sydney, University of NSW and Macquarie University .
Blanchett, whose recent movies have included Cinderella, Truth, Carol and the upcoming Song to Song, Thor: Ragnarok, Oceans Eight and Jungle Book, has long used her profile to promote causes she cares about.
When she won the Longford Lyell Award for her outstanding contribution to the country's screen culture two years ago, she thanked the Australian academy for recognising screen pioneer Lottie Lyell's work, saying: "So often in any industry – the film industry is no exception – female achievement, because we just get on and do stuff, gets swept under the carpet."
She also called for more pride in the Australian film industry.
"We talk about 'isn't this a great year for Australian film' as if it's some fluke or something we should be surprised by. We should be bloody proud of it. The films don't necessarily need to go to another country. Our stories are worth consuming here."
When she won her second Oscar for Blue Jasmine in 2014, Blanchett made a rousing call for Hollywood to recognise that movies centred on women should be considered mainstream rather than niche. "Audiences want to see them and, in fact, they earn money," she said. "The world is round, people!"
Blanchett's recent stage work has included both The Maids and The Present at Sydney Theatre Company then New York.
Her first Oscar was for The Aviator in 2005 and she has also been nominated for Elizabeth (1999), Notes On A Scandal (2007), I'm Not There (2008) and Carol (2016).