45. CATE BLANCHETT
AGE 38
JOB TITLE Actor
SMART BECAUSE No one else could play Queen Elizabeth I and Bob Dylan in the same year and succeed at both. Blanchett is the ultimate non-careerist — instead of fretting over bankability, she's focused on keeping herself fascinated with every role, and in the process, has become the heir apparent to Meryl Streep. Like Streep, she's no art-film snob either; she recently wrapped shooting the next Indiana Jones.
WALK LIKE AN EGYPTIAN At 18, made her screen debut in Cairo as an extra in a boxing movie.
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