Television presenter Carrie Bickmore, and her partner Chris Walker, welcomed their first child together on March 18, and have named their daughter Evie. Evie is a sister for Carrie’s son Oliver, or “Ollie”, from her former husband Greg Lange, who died in 2010 after a long battle with cancer.

Carrie got her start in radio, and began working in television in 2006 on variety show Rove Live, in a segment called Carrie @ the News Desk. Since 2009, she has been a co-host on currents events show The Project, and has won a Logie Award for her work. Her husband Chris is a television producer.

Actress Cate Blanchett, and her husband Andrew Upton, recently welcomed a daughter by adoption, and her name has been confirmed as Edith Vivian Patricia. Edith joins big brothers Dashiell, aged 13, Roman, aged 10, and Ignatius, aged 6.

Catherine “Cate” Blanchett graduated from NIDA in 1992, and was immediately acclaimed for her work in theatre, winning two awards from the Sydney Theatre Critics. After some work in television, she made her film début in 1997 with a supporting role in Paradise Road, and took the lead role in Oscar and Lucinda, opposite Ralph Fiennes, which was well received. Her first major international role was in the 1998 film Elizabeth, where she played the title role of Queen Elizabeth I. This made her an internationally recognised star, and won her a Golden Globe and a BAFTA. Her profile has been raised by her appearance as Galadriel in Peter Jackson’s blockbusting Lord of the Rings and Hobbit trilogies. Other films she has appeared in include The Talented Mr Ripley, The Shipping News, Charlotte Gray, Veronica Guerin, The Aviator, Babel, Notes on a Scandal, Hot Fuzz, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and Blue Jasmine, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. She will play the “wicked stepmother” role in the upcoming Disney film, Cinderella. She has been honoured with many awards for her work in film, including a star on Hollywood Boulevard’s Walk of Fame.

Andrew is a playwright, screenwriter, and director, and he and Cate have been married since 1997. They formed their own film company Dirty Films, which have made Bangers and Little Fish, which both starred Cate. Andrew and Cate became joint artistic directors of the Sydney Theatre Company in 2008, and recently announced that they would be leaving to live in the United States once Andrew’s role at the STC comes to an end.

Beauty queen Piper O’Neill, and her partner Jordan Green, welcomed their son Taylor Ethan on January 23. Taylor joins big sister Elsie, aged 17 months.

Piper was named Mrs Australia late last year, and is the first pageant queen in Australia to be crowned while pregnant. She will fly to Florida in July to represent Australia in the Mrs International pageant. Piper grew up in Portland, Oregon to an Australian father and American mother, and is a global ambassador for Sydney-based charity Mums on a Mission, which raises money for causes such as the Children’s Hospital in Westmead. She hopes to use her pageant title to raise awareness of positive body image.