Cate Blanchett as: Charlotte Gray
Directed by: Gillian Armstrong
Selected Cast: James Fleet, Abigail Cruttenden, Rupert Penry-Jones & Billy Crudup
Written by: Sebastian Faulks & Jeremy Brock
Release Year: 2001
Genre: Drama / Romance / Thriller / War
MPAA Rating: PG-13

Charlotte, a young Scottish woman, who has studied in France, is living in London during World War II. Within weeks she both falls in love with a young pilot and is recruited by the Secret Service to act as a courier for the French Resistance. However her mission behind enemy lines becomes a personal mission to find her lover who has been shot down. Assigned to a Communist Resistance group she encounters acts of betrayal from sometimes unexpected sources, but meets the violence of war and her own disappointment with hope…

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• Producer Sarah Curtis on wanting to cast Cate
“We were absolutely unanimous that it had to be Cate.”

• Billy Crudup
“I actually became extremely self-conscious, because you know how good her work is, and you begin to wonder why yours isn’t as good! But more often than not, I think what you find is that it forces you to elevate your own skills. And that was one of the primary reasons I wanted to be in Charlotte Gray. Because Cate is an actress that I admire a great deal, and I felt like it was an opportunity for me to learn from what she does.”

• Rupert Penry Jones, on who else has sex appeal apart from his own girlfriend
“Cate Blanchett. She’s exquisitely beautiful and a lovely lady.”

“She’s superb. I completely fell in love with her. Actors at that level are so perfectly tuned. It’s silk.”

• Charlotte Gray: “There’s something I’ve been meaning to tell you.”
Julien Levade: What?”
Charlotte Gray: “My name: Charlotte Gray.”

• Psychiatrist: Of these three, which in your view is the most important: Faith, hope or love?”
Charlotte Gray: “Hope.”

• Charlotte Gray: “Tomorrow, I’m dirty down there. We’ll be together tomorrow when I’m clean, you want me clean right?”
Renech: “If you try to leave.”
Charlotte Gray: “I won’t.”
Renech: “I’m not afraid to kill you.”
Charlotte Gray: “Tomorrow.”
Renech: “You will come, I know many people. You understand? Many people!”
Charlotte Gray: “I understand… I understand.”

• Filmed in France, England, UK and Scotland, UK (view all.)

• 4 nominations (view all.)

• The schoolteacher played by Anton Lesser was called “Benech” in the novel, but the small French town in which much of the movie was based had a popular mayor whose name was similar, so officials asked that the name be changed. He’s called “Renech” in the final version.

• In some shots of the departing deportation train, it can clearly be seen that the goods wagons used bear the inscription “UIC St” and a rather long wagon number. Both things belong to the international UIC numbering system, not introduced before 1965.