Since graduating from drama school in 1992, the actress Cate Blanchett has been, among other things, a storied English monarch (“Elizabeth”), an Irish journalist (“Veronica Guerin”), a southern psychic (“The Gift”), a Long Island housewife (“Pushing Tin”), a WASP heiress (“The Talented Mr. Ripley”), a Middle Earth elf queen (“Lord of the Rings”), a Scottish member of the French Resistance (“Charlotte Gray”) and a New Mexico frontierswoman (“The Missing”). And in Wes Anderson’s ensemble comedy “The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou” (which opened in New York and Los Angeles on Friday ), the 35-year-old Melbourne native plays a starchy, very pregnant globetrotting journalist. [More]