‘I’m giving up’: Cate Blanchett says she is retiring from acting

‘My family roll their eyes every time I say it’ … Cate Blanchett at the Olivier awards this month. Photograph: Tolga Akmen/EPA

Cate Blanchett says that she is “giving up” acting to do other things “with [her] life”.

In an interview with Radio Times, Blanchett suggested she was uncertain over calling herself an “actress”, saying: “It’s because I’m giving up.”