Tilda Swinton’s Interesting Love Life
Tilda Swinton’s Interesting Love Life
She just won an Oscar for “Best Supporting Actress” for her role in Michael Clayton, and now Tilda Swinton will have to begin getting used to the public diplay of her private life.
The British actress was spotted at LAX airport yesterday getting ready to head back to London following Oscar weekend. She looked casual in a white shirt and black pants as she made her way through security.
Swinton’s unconventional love life was the topic of conversation Sunday night at the Academy Award Winner’s press conference, where she was asked about her older partner, Joe Byrne, and her younger lover, Sandro Kopp (whom she took as her date).
Tilda responded that she was raising her children with Byrne while living with Kopp, noting “I think it’s extraordinary that we’re all really close friends.” Extraordinary indeed!
Cate’s Three Sons
Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton have made it a threesome.
The Oscar winner and her playwright hubby of 10 years welcomed their third child together, son Ignatius Martin Upton, Sunday in Sydney, according to a rep for the Sydney Theatre Company, where the couple serve as coartistic directors.
"All are well and very happy," said Tim McKeough.
Ignatius, weighing in at 7 pounds, 9 ounces, joins brothers Dashiell, 6, and Roman, 3.
Blanchett, glammed out in bump-friendly gowns while strolling the red carpet during the recent awards season, confirmed her pregnancy in November, telling the reporters who informed her of rumors she was having a boy, "You know more than me. It's early days yet. It's due in April."
The 38-year-old actress pulled double duty on the big screen last year, reprising her star-making role as the Virgin Queen in Elizabeth: The Golden Age and as one of six Bob Dylan-incarnates in Todd Haynes' I’m Not There.
Before she started to show, she had completed filming on David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, opposite Brad Pitt and Tilda Swinton, the Brit who beat out Blanchett for Best Supporting Actress at this year’s Academy Awards.
Next up for the Australian thesp is the long-awaited Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, in theaters May 22. Benjamin Button will be along Dec. 19.
Cate Blanchett Expecting Baby No. 3
Cate Blanchett is pregnant with her third child, the actress confirmed Saturday night in her native Australia, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
“Yes, I am,” Blanchett, 38, said at the Sydney premiere of her film Elizabeth: The Golden Age, according to the paper.
Informed of rumors that she is carrying a boy, Blanchett reportedly responded: “You know more than me. It’s early days yet. It’s due in April.”
The actress and her writer-director husband, Andrew Upton, already have two sons: Dashiell John, 5, and Roman Robert, 3.
As for expanding her family, Blanchett recently told W magazine that she was “not going to wait forever. … God, I’d love it to be now. I’d love it to be next week.”
More Time at Home
Whether it’s a boy or a girl, Blanchett plans to spend more time in her native Australia, where she and Upton will be co-directors of the Sydney Theatre Company – a decision partly made in the interests of her children. “He’s five now,” she said of elder son Dashiell. “He needs to be settled, and I respect that.”
A Best Supporting Actress Oscar winner in 2005 for The Aviator (in which she played screen legend Katharine Hepburn), Blanchett has been filming roles in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, with Brad Pitt, and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, with Harrison Ford.
Besides Elizabeth, Blanchett’s latest film, in which she is one of several actors to play Bob Dylan, is the biopic of the singer-songwriter, I’m Not There. It premiered at film festivals last month.
Blanchett’s next role should be perfect for an expectant mom who might want to stay off her feet: She’ll record a voice for the animated film The Fantastic Mr. Fox.
Mira Sorvino Has a Boy
Oscar-winning actress Mira Sorvino and her husband Chris Backus have welcomed their second child, a boy named Johnny, PEOPLE has learned exclusively.
The baby, who was born on Monday at 5:50 p.m. at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Beverly Hills, arrived a week before his due date. He weighed in at 7 lbs., 14 oz., and was 21 inches long.
“Both mother and son are doing very well and are both very healthy,” the actress’s rep Ed Choi, tells PEOPLE. “The entire family is thrilled at the addition of a baby brother for their daughter, Mattea.”
The couple’s first child, Mattea Angel, was born in November of 2004. Shortly after the birth, Backus told PEOPLE: “(Mattea) is the cutest little baby in the whole wide world.”
When Sorvino announced in January that she was expecting her second child, she told PEOPLE: “I’m so excited that Mattea is going to have a sibling. We’re going to be a family of four.”
Sorvino, 38, and Backus, 24, married in June of 2004. They met at a friend’s charades party the previous summer. “He walked into the kitchen looking for silverware. We saw each other and something made us want to talk to each other more,” Sorvino told PEOPLE of the couple’s first encounter.
The pair got engaged within a month of meeting and had two weddings. The first was a private civil service at the Santa Barbara Courthouse, the second a hilltop ceremony in Italy’s Capri, where guests feasted on pasta in lobster sauce and a three-tier chocolate sponge cake topped with Mira and Chris lookalike figures.
“Mira looked like a young girl in seventh heaven,” one witness told PEOPLE of the Italian ceremony.
Sorvino, who is the daughter of actor Paul Sorvino, won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Woody Allen’s 1995 film Mighty Aphrodite.