The Oscar-winning actress, 55, hesitated about her job title during an interview with Radio Times and explained: ‘It’s because I’m giving up [acting]. My family roll their eyes every time I say it, but I mean it. I am serious about giving up acting.’

Cate insisted she had ‘a lot of things I want to do with my life’.

The Australian actress, who recently starred in an adaptation of Chekov’s The Seagull at the Barbican, London, did not give a timeframe on her departure from the entertainment industry.

But it is not the first time that she has threatened to quit her career despite international acclaim.

She told Vanity Fair in 2023 that she has often toyed with the idea of walking away from her acting work.

She said: ‘It’s not occasional — it’s continual. On a daily or weekly basis, for sure.

‘It’s a love affair, isn’t it? So you do fall in and out of love with it, and you have to be seduced back into it.’

Despite her latest declaration, the Lord of the Rings star is set to feature in her first radio play on Radio 4 on Saturday in a 90-minute monologue titled The Fever.

Written by Wallace Shawn, Blanchett will play an unnamed traveller who falls ill in a foreign country riven by civil war.

The mother-of-four explained why she had chosen to embark on her first audio radio project.