Cate Blanchett suffers head injury

Cate Blanchett was reportedly injured in a fight scene during a performance of A Streetcar Named Desire by the Sydney Theatre Company.

According to The Sydney Morning Herald, the actress, who is playing Blanche DuBois, began bleeding from the head after she was hit by a prop, leading to the show being cancelled.

An onlooker named Kate revealed that Joel Edgerton, acting as Stanley Kowalski, accidentally struck Blanchett with a radio.

She said: ''He was supposed to throw [the radio] out the window, but it sort of slipped and hit her in the head… she was so good, she just went straight on."

The witness added that Edgerton’s performance continued after Blanchett made her exit until an announcement was made. ''They just kind of went, 'Joel can you leave the stage please'," she said.

The audience was informed on the footpath outside the Sydney Theatre that the show would not continue.