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Cate Blanchett is headed to the stage. Having completed the Australian drama Little Fish, the Melbourne native will make her U.S. theater debut next year as Ibsen's Hedda Gabler at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Next week, Laura Linney begins filming the modern-day ghost story Jindabyne. She'll also deal with a divorce from an eccentric novelist in the Sundance hit The Squid and the Whale, and investigate a wayward priest in The Exorcism of Emily Rose.

Her career newly revived, Virginia Madsen is currently filming the kidnapping thriller The Wrong Element with Harrison Ford.

Sophie Okonedo partners with Charlize Theron's leather-clad secret agent in next fall's futuristic action flick Aeon Flux.

With May's Star Wars: Episode III — The Revenge of the Sith long wrapped, Natalie Portman just finished filming the drama Free Zone in Israel and will begin production on the comic-book adaptation V for Vendetta, written by the Wachowski brothers, this month.