The 38-year-old actress already has two sons with director husband Andrew Upton — Dashiell John, 5 1/2, and Roman Robert, 3 1/2. Despite her pregnancy, Blanchett is expected to continue her role as artistic director of the 2008 season alongside her husband Andrew Upton. Her husband Daniel, South Asia bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal, was researching a story on shoe bomber Richard Reid. Based on the true story of how Charlie Wilson, an alcoholic womanizer and Texas congressman, persuaded the CIA to train and arm resistance fighters in Afghanistan to fend off the Soviet Union. With the help of rogue CIA agent, Gust Avrakotos, the two men supplied money, training and a team of military experts that turned the ill-equipped Afghan freedom-fighters into a force that brought the Red Army to a stalemate. She went on to originate the role of Marta Von Trapp in the Original Cast of the Broadway revival of "The Sound of Music" with Richard Chamberlain . read more
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