Born on December 3, 2001, Dashiell John Upton is Cate Blanchett’s eldest child. Given their parents’ respective careers, it checks out that at least one of Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton’s kids likes the performing arts. In a 2009 chat with People, Blanchett dished that Dashiell was following in his mom’s footsteps. “My oldest already performs his own version of ‘Hamlet,’” she said.
Dashiell’s parents have only continued to support his interest in the arts, and once he was done with high school, he headed to film school. Blanchett has acknowledged the mixed emotions that come with watching your children leave the nest. In a May 2020 interview with iO Donna, she said, “It is difficult to break away, very difficult, but I am so proud of my son.”
The “Ocean’s 8” actor never pushed her son to get into the “family business.” “I think if I was in a different profession, if I was a lawyer, or a doctor, or an architect, maybe, or if I had a trade that I could actually use in the Armageddon, then there would be a sense that that would be a great and expected thing,” she told Harper’s Bazaar in 2018. “Certainly, my children do not want to be ‘the son of,’ and I know that my feisty daughter will not want to be ‘the daughter of.’” That said, as Dashiell continues to pave his own way, certainly having parents with experience in his chosen field should certainly come in handy.
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