Andrew Upton (brought into the world 1 February 1966) is an Australian writer, screenwriter, and executive. He is the spouse of on-screen character Cate Blanchett. 

Profession 

As a writer, Upton made adjustments of Hedda Gabler, The Cherry Orchard, Cyrano de Bergerac, Don Juan (with Marion Potts), Uncle Vanya, The Maids, Children of the Sun and Platonov for the Sydney Theater Company (STC) and Maxim Gorky's The Philistines for London's Royal National Theater. 

His unique play Riflemind, with Hugo Weaving as a maturing hero arranging a rebound visit, opened at the STC on 5 October 2007 to positive surveys.

Riflemind opened in London in 2008, coordinated by Philip Seymour Hoffman however shut after the short run because of consistently poor notification and the weight of the Global Financial Crisis.

In 2008, Upton and spouse Cate Blanchett became joint creative executives of the Sydney Theater Company for what turned into a five-year term. 

Upton and Blanchett framed a film creation organization, Dirty Films, whose tasks incorporate the short film Bangers (1999) and the component film Little Fish (2006).

Upton composed, delivered, and coordinated Bangers, which featured Blanchett. He was the partner maker on Little Fish, which additionally featured Blanchett.

In 2006, he composed the movie Gone which was coordinated by Ringan Ledwidge. Upton composed the lyrics to Alan John's show Through the Looking Glass which debuted with the Victorian Opera in Melbourne in May 2008. 

In June 2014, Upton was perceived with the Rotary Professional Excellence Award, an honor organized "to respect an individual who has shown predictable expert greatness in their picked livelihood by adding to the advantage of the more extensive network past their normal work environment job". 

Individual life 

Upton and Cate Blanchett met in 1996 on the arrangement of a TV appearance and were hitched on 29 December 1997. They have four youngsters: organic children Dashiell John (brought into the world 3 December 2001), Roman Robert (brought into the world 23 April 2004), Ignatius Martin (brought into the world 13 April 2008), and received little girl Edith Vivian Patricia, whose reception was affirmed on 6 March 2015. 

They lived in Hunters Hill, New South Wales in Australia for quite a long while. 

Following the offer of their property there in late 2015, Upton and Blanchett bought in mid-2016 a noteworthy $6.25 million English estate, High well House, in East Sussex, England. 

The assortment has announced that around a similar time the couple additionally bought an advanced disapproved of five-room duplex loft in downtown Sydney once claimed by comedian Barry Humphries, and bought from The Celebrity Apprentice Australia have Mark Bouris for a sum "something like $8 million".