Andrew Upton is an Australian playwright, screenwriter, and director.
He has adapted the works of Gorky, Chekhov, Ibsen, and others for London’s Royal National Theatre and the Sydney Theatre Company.
Upton wrote the original play Riflemind (2007), which premiered at the Sydney Theatre Company to favorable reviews, with Hugo Weaving starring and Philip Seymour Hoffmann’s directing the London production.
Upton and his wife Cate Blanchett are the co-founders of the film production company, Dirty Films, under which Upton served as a producer for the Australian film Little Fish (2005). He and Blanchett became joint artistic directors of the Sydney Theatre Company from 2008 until 2012.
Upton attended The King’s School, Parramatta, and the University of Sydney. He and Cate Blanchett met in Australia in the mid-1990s and married on 29 December 1997.
The couple has three sons and one daughter. Their sons are Dashiell John Upton (born 2001), Roman Robert Upton (born 2004), Ignatius Martin Upton (born 2008), and daughter Edith Vivian Patricia Upton (adopted in 2015).
Their children appeared with Upton in segment 11 of the 2015 film Manifesto. Upton and Blanchett purchased a house in East Sussex, England, in early 2016.