While honing her remarkable skills as an actress, Australian-born Cate Blanchett somehow managed to endure nine months of pregnancy and one day of childbirth a total of three times. All the while, we’re sure, juggling a busy career as a Hollywood A-list actress. Good’on ya, mate! Cate’s husband since 1997, play and film writer Andrew Upton, supplied the actress with Y chromosomes to make three baby boys. Dashiell John was born in 2001; brother Roman Robert followed in 2004 and last came Ignatius Martin in 2008. Cate is obviously a woman with taste and individual flair. None of these names is anywhere near overused or trendy. Dashiell was likely inspired by Dashiell Hammet, American author of “The Maltese Falcon†and “The Thin Man†classics. Roman and Ignatius are both old-school Latin names for the very erudite. Classy, cool and ultra-yet-anti-conventional.
