--- title: Cate Blanchett Lip Syncs at a Drag Show in NYC for Charity description: Cate Blanchett lip-synced Dusty Springfield's "You Don't Own Me" and Adele's "Hello" during a drag performance at the Stonewall Inn. canonical: https://time.com/4678709/cate-blanchett-sings-drag-show/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-22T16:49:20.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:41:18.207Z og:title: You Need to Watch Cate Blanchett Lip-Sync at this Drag Show og:description: This is Cate as you've never seen her before og:url: https://time.com/4678709/cate-blanchett-sings-drag-show/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: You Need to Watch Cate Blanchett Lip-Sync at this Drag Show twitter:description: This is Cate as you've never seen her before twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Cate Blanchett Flawlessly Lip-Sync 'You Don't Own Me' at a Drag Show  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Feb 22, 2017 4:49 PM UTC  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Feb 22, 2017 4:49 PM UTC [Cate Blanchett](http://time.com/4645155/cate-blanchett-on-trump/) stole the show at a drag performance at [New York City’s legendary Stonewall Inn](http://time.com/4660507/donald-trump-immigration-protest-stonewall-inn/) with a mesmerizing lip-sync performance (sans pants, no less!) of Dusty Springfield’s “You Don’t Own Me,” proving that the Oscar winner is not just a talented actress but a bona fide master of the lip-sync. The performance was part of [a benefit to end gun violence that was organized by the Newtown Action Alliance in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook massacre](http://www.talkinbroadway.com/allthatchat%5Fnew/d.php?id=2365212). Blanchett later also played backup during a performance of Adele’s “Hello,” where she sported a knit pink [pussyhat](http://ti.me/2k71OoN) and was generally flawless. The _Carol_ star is currently on Broadway [performing in _The Present_](http://thepresentbroadway.com/) and will be appearing next in [the all-female installation of _Ocean’s Eleven, Ocean’s 8_](http://time.com/4653600/rihanna-oceans-eight-first-photo/). Watch Cate perform at Stonewall below. Cate Blanchett Lip Syncs at a Drag Show in NYC for Charity ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4678709/cate-blanchett-sings-drag-show/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4678709/cate-blanchett-sings-drag-show/"},"headline":"Watch Cate Blanchett Flawlessly Lip-Sync 'You Don't Own Me' at a Drag Show","datePublished":"2017-02-22T16:49:20.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:41:18.207Z","description":"This is Cate as you've never seen her before","url":"https://time.com/4678709/cate-blanchett-sings-drag-show/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","Cate Blanchett","celebrity","Culture"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4678709/cate-blanchett-sings-drag-show/","name":"Watch Cate Blanchett Flawlessly Lip-Sync 'You Don't Own Me' at a Drag Show"}}]}] ```