Cate’s new look is ... eye-catching!

SHE is one of the world’s biggest film stars, but double Oscar winner Cate Blanchett was almost unrecognisable as she took a stroll round London in a pair of huge orange glasses.

Seemingly free of make-up, the 53-year-old actress looked a far cry from this year’s Academy Awards ceremony, where she wore a shimmering 1980s-inspired Louis Vuitton outfit, right.

Blanchett, who was twice nominated for Oscars for playing Elizabeth I, lost out on the Best Actress prize this year to Michelle Yeoh in Everything Everywhere All At Once. Married to playwright Andrew Upton, with whom she has four children, Blanchett moved to Britain in 2015. The couple live in a manor house in East Sussex.

Perhaps the over-sized specs were a tribute to fellow Australian Dame Edna Everage?