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Blanchett was born in Ivanhoe, a suburb of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. She is the daughter of June, an Australian and a teacher from the Melbourne area, and Robert "Bob" Blanchett, a Texan of French descent from the US Navy who later served as an advertising executive.