Anne Jacqueline Hathaway (born November 12, 1982) is an American actress. Her accolades include an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award. Her films have grossed over $6.8 billion worldwide, and she appeared on the Forbes Celebrity 100 list in 2009. She was among the world’s highest-paid actresses in 2015.
Anne Hathaway Facts
- Born: Anne Jacqueline Hathaway November 12, 1982 (age 41), New York City, U.S.
- Alma mater New York University
- Occupation: Actress
- Years active 1999–present
- Spouse Adam Shulman: (m. 2012).
- Children: 2
Anne Hathaway Early life and background
Anne Jacqueline “Annie” Hathaway was born on November 12, 1982, in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. Her father, Gerald, is a labor attorney, and her mother, Kate (née McCauley), is a former actress.Hathaway’s maternal grandfather was WIP (AM) Philadelphia radio personality Joe McCauley.According to The Daily Telegraph, she was named after Shakespeare’s wife.She has an older brother, Michael, and a younger brother, Thomas.When Hathaway was six, the family moved to Millburn, New Jersey, where she was raised.
Entrance to the theater Paper Mill Playhouse with the poster to a play outside it
Paper Mill Playhouse where Hathaway appeared in several productions as a child
Hathaway At age eight,when Hathaway watched her mother perform in the first national tour of Les Misérables as Fantine, she instantly became fascinated with the stage, but her parents were not keen on allowing her to pursue an acting career. After this, Kate quit acting to raise Hathaway and her brothers.Hathaway was raised as Roman Catholic with what she considers to be “really strong values” and wished to be a nun during her childhood, but acting was always a high priority for her. Her relationship with the Catholic Church changed at age fifteen, after learning that her older brother was gay.Her family left the church, joining the Episcopal Church because of its acceptance of homosexuality, but they eventually left that too.n 2009, Hathaway described her religious beliefs as “a work in progress”.
Hathaway attended Brooklyn Heights Montessori School and Wyoming Elementary School in Millburn. She graduated from Millburn High School, where she played soccer and took part in many plays, including Once Upon a Mattress, in which she portrayed Winnifred. Later, she appeared in the plays Jane Eyre and Gigi, at New Jersey’s Paper Mill Playhouse. She studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in 1993 and became the first teenager admitted into the Barrow Group Theater Company’s acting program. She spent several semesters studying as an English major and political science minor at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, before transferring to New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study.
Hathaway Between 1998 and 1999, Hathaway sang soprano with the All-Eastern U.S. High School Honors Chorus at Carnegie Hall and in plays at Seton Hall Preparatory School in West Orange, New Jersey. Early in her film career, her acting style and appearance would be likened to Judy Garland—whom she cites as one of her favorite actresses—and Audrey Hepburn. Three days after her performance at Carnegie Hall, Hathaway was cast in the short-lived Fox television series Get Real. She played the teenager Meghan Green, alongside Jon Tenney, Debrah Farentino and Jesse Eisenberg. Despite her early success, Hathaway suffered from depression and anxiety as a teenager. However, she said in 2008 that she had since grown from it. She missed her first college semester for the filming of her cinematic debut, The Princess Diaries (2001). According to Hathaway, she never regretted not completing her degree, as she enjoyed being with others who “were trying to grow up”
Anne Hathaway Caree
Hathaway The comedy The Princess Diaries and the adventure drama The Other Side of Heaven, both 2001 Disney films, featured Hathaway in lead roles. Based on Meg Cabot’s 2000 novel of the same name, the former follows teenage Mia Thermopolis (Hathaway) who discovers that she is the heiress to the throne of the fictional Kingdom of Genovia. Hathaway auditioned for the role during a flight layover on the way to New Zealand.Garry Marshall, the film’s director, initially considered Liv Tyler for the role, but cast Hathaway after his granddaughters suggested that she had the best “princess” hair. The film became a major commercial success, grossing $165 million worldwide.Many critics lauded Hathaway’s performance; a BBC critic noted that “Hathaway shines in the title role and generates great chemistry” and The New York Times’ Elvis Mitchell found her to be “royalty in the making, a young comic talent with a scramble of features”.She earned an MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Female Performance nomination for the role.Hathaway starred with Christopher Gorham in Mitch Davis’s The Other Side of Heaven. Inspired by John H. Groberg’s memoir In the Eye of the Storm, the film met with mostly negative reviews and was a box-office failure.
Hathaway portrayed princesses and appeared in family-oriented films over the next three years, subsequently becoming known in mainstream media as a children’s role model. After voicing Haru Yoshioka for the English version of The Cat Returns (2002), she starred in Douglas McGrath’s comedy-drama Nicholas Nickleby (2002), which opened to positive reviews. However, the film did not enter wide release and failed at the North American box office, totaling less than $4 million in ticket sales. The fantasy romantic comedy Ella Enchanted (2004), in which Hathaway played the titular character, also performed poorly at the box office. She had first read the book on which the film is based when she was 16, and stated that the script was originally much closer to the source material but did not work as a film, and therefore preferred the picture the way it turned out. It opened to mostly mixed reviews. Hathaway sang three songs on the film’s soundtrack, including a duet with singer Jesse McCartney.
Anne Hathaway 2005–2008: Transition to adult roles and critical recognition
Hathaway began taking on adult roles in an effort to avoid typecasting, remarking that “anybody who was a role model for children needs a reprieve”, but noted that “it’s lovely to think that my audience is growing up with me” After replacing Tara Strong for the voice role of Red Puckett in Hoodwinked! (2005),she starred in the drama Havoc (2005) as a spoiled socialite, appearing nude in some of its scenes. While the film was thematically different from her previous releases, Hathaway denied that her role was an attempt to be seen as a more mature actress, citing her belief that performing nudity in certain films is merely a part of what her chosen form of art demands of her; because of this belief she does not consider appearing nude in appropriate films to be morally objectionable.The film was not released in theaters in the United States due to unfavorable critical reception.
Hathaway starred opposite Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal in Ang Lee’s drama Brokeback Mountain (2005). The film depicts the emotional and sexual relationship between two men married to women, Ennis (Ledger) and Jack (Gyllenhaal); she played Jack’s wife, Lureen. Hathaway was originally sent the script with the role of Ennis’ wife in mind, but decided to audition for Lureen once she read it. She lied during her audition about her knowledge of riding so that Lee would cast her, but did subsequently take lessons. The film received critical acclaim and several Academy Award nominations. Peter Travers of Rolling Stone wrote that Hathaway “excels at showing Lureen’s journey from cutie-pie to hard case”, and Todd McCarthy of Variety credited her for “provid[ing] an entertaining contrast in wifely disappointment”. Hathaway stated that the content of Brokeback Mountain was more important than its award count, and that making the film made her more aware of the kind of stories she wanted to tell as an actor. At this point, she realized that she wanted to play roles to move audiences or otherwise entertain them so much that they forget about their own lives.
A picture of Anne Hathaway looking into the camera.
Hathaway at the 2007 Deauville American Film Festival
Hathaway In 2006, she starred in David Frankel’s comedy-drama The Devil Wears Prada, based on the novel of the same name by Lauren Weisberger. The film saw her play a college graduate who lands a job as co-assistant to the powerful fashion magazine editor Miranda Priestly (played by Meryl Streep).Hathaway was “the ninth choice” for the role, citing this later as an inspiration for people to never give up, and in preparation she volunteered for a few weeks as an assistant at an auction house. She said working on the film made her respect the fashion industry a great deal more than she did previously, though she admitted that her personal style was something she “still can’t get right”. She and co-star Emily Blunt got so hungry on their weight-loss regimen for the film it made them cry. The Devil Wears Prada received positive reviews; Roger Ebert called Hathaway “a great beauty who makes a convincing career girl” and Rotten Tomatoes found “Streep in top form and Anne Hathaway more than holding her own”.The film became her biggest commercial success to that point, grossing more than $326.5 million worldwide.
Hathaway was cast in Knocked Up, but dropped out before filming began and was replaced by Katherine Heigl. According to writer-director Judd Apatow, this happened because Hathaway was uncomfortable with the use of real footage of a woman giving birth; she believed it did not contribute to the film’s story.Her sole release of 2007 was the biographical romantic drama Becoming Jane, as the titular English author Jane Austen. A fan of Austen since she was 14, Hathaway prepared for the role by rereading Austen’s books and conducting historical research, such as perusing the author’s letters; she also learned sign language, calligraphy, dance choreography, and the piano. She moved to England a month prior to filming so as to improve her English accent. She received a British Independent Film Award for Best Actress nomination for the film,although some critics negatively focused on her accent and performance.
Hathaway In October 2008, Hathaway hosted an episode of the NBC late-night sketch comedy Saturday Night Live.She also starred in Peter Segal’s film adaptation of Mel Brooks’ television series Get Smart, in which she played Agent 99. Considering the role to be “a childhood dream come true”, Hathaway learned martial arts and dancing techniques in preparation. While filming an action sequence, she split the flesh of her shin to the bone, which led to her receiving 15 stitches.The film, centering on an analyst who dreams of becoming a real field agent and a better spy, was a financial success.Her following release, the mystery thriller Passengers alongside Patrick Wilson, was a critical and commercial failure. Hathaway then starred in Jonathan Demme’s drama Rachel Getting Married as Kym, a young woman who, after being released from drug rehabilitation, returns home for her sister’s wedding. She described her character as “narcissistic—downright selfish”. Rachel Getting Married premiered at the 2008 Venice and Toronto International Film Festivals, and Hathaway was widely acclaimed for her performance.Peter Travers found her to be “raw and riveting” in the role, adding that she “acts the hell out of it, achieving a state of sorrowful grace”. She received Academy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Actress.
Anne Hathaway 2009–2011: Romantic comedies and hosting events
Hathaway starred in Bride Wars (2009), which she described as “hideously commercial—gloriously so”.The romantic comedy, in which she and Kate Hudson played two best friends who become rivals after their weddings are scheduled on the same day, was a critical failure; it was named among the ten worst chick flicks in history by Time in 2010Despite this, the film was successful financially and earned Hathaway an MTV Movie Award for Best Female Performance nomination. She played the heroine Viola in a summer 2009 production of Twelfth Night at the Delacorte Theater in Hathaway New York City. Charles Isherwood opined that Hathaway “dives smoothly and with obvious pleasure into the embrace of a cohesive ensemble cast”. For her portrayal of the role, she garnered a nomination for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play. In 2010, she also won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance for providing her voice for the episode “Once Upon a Time in Springfield” in The Simpsons. Hathaway voiced different characters in Family Guy in 2010 and 2011.
Hathaway In 2010, Hathaway appeared as a receptionist who dates a clerk (played by Topher Grace) in the ensemble romantic comedy Valentine’s Day, directed by Garry Marshall. The film was a commercial success, grossing more than $215 million worldwide against a budget of $52 millionHathaway played the White Queen in Tim Burton’s 2010 adaptation of the fantasy novels Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass alongside Helena Bonham Carter and Johnny Depp. She summed up her character with a caption on a magnet of Happy Bunny holding a knife; “Cute but psycho. Things even out.”Hathaway described her interpretation of the White Queen as “a punk-rock vegan pacifist”, drawing inspiration from Debbie Harry and the artwork of Dan Flavin. Alice in Wonderland received mixed reviews from critics, who praised the film’s visuals but criticized the lack of narrative coherence. Commercially, it grossed $1 billion to become the second-highest-grossing film of 2010.
A bust shot of a young woman standing in a side view, her head turned to look to the camera. Her long hair is pulled back from her face and cascades down her back. She wears a black sleeveless dress with a gold trim around the back and under her arm. She wears jeweled silver floral shaped earrings and smiles softly. There is a crowd of people, slightly out of focus, in the background.
Hathaway at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert in 2010, which she hosted with actor Denzel Washington
Hathaway reunited with Jake Gyllenhaal as a free-spirited artist with Parkinson’s disease in Edward Zwick’s erotic romantic comedy-drama Love & Other Drugs, based on the nonfiction book Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman by Jamie Reidy. For the role, she spent time with a Parkinson’s patient to research the disease, and in preparation for its nude scenes, she watched films of Kate Winslet and Penélope Cruz who, in Hathaway’s view, had performed nudity with sensitivity and dignity.She believed these scenes would not discourage socially conservative people from watching the film. Critics generally praised the film’s adult romance, but were unenthusiastic about its plot elements. Hathaway’s performance, which Ebert called “warm, lovable”, earned her a Satellite Award and a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Comedy or Musical.Together with actor Denzel Washington, Hathaway hosted the Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo, Norway in December 2010.Two months later, she and James Franco hosted the 83rd Academy Awards. Critics were unenthusiastic about their chemistry, but thought Hathaway gave her best and did a better job than Franco, who they felt seemed uninterested.At the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards, she garnered an Outstanding Variety Special (Live) nomination.
In 2011, Hathaway voiced Jewel, a female Spix’s macaw from Rio de Janeiro, in the animated film Rio, produced by 20th Century Fox and Blue Sky Studios. Hathaway The film received generally positive reviews from film critics, who praised the visuals, voice acting and music.A commercial success, it grossed more than $484 million worldwide against a budget of $90 million.] Later, Hathaway starred alongside Hathaway Jim Sturgess in Lone Scherfig’s One Day, based on David Nicholls’ 2009 novel of the same name. The film t
Anne Hathaway Personal life
Hathaway In 2004, Hathaway began a romantic relationship with Italian real estate developer Raffaello Follieri.Follieri’s Manhattan-based foundation focused on efforts such as providing vaccinations for children in poor countries. In June 2008, it was investigated by the IRS for failure to file required nonprofit information forms] In June 2008, Follieri was arrested on charges of defrauding investors out of millions of dollars in a scheme in which he posed as the Vatican’s real-estate agent. It was reported that the FBI confiscated Hathaway’s private journals from Follieri’s New York City apartment as part of their ongoing investigation into Follieri’s activities. Hathaway was not charged with any crime.In October 2008, after earlier pleading guilty, Follieri was sentenced to four and a half years in prison.
In early 2007, Hathaway spoke of her experiences with depression during her teens, saying that she eventually overcame the disorder without medication.in 2008, she began smoking after a stressful summer and the end of her relationship with Follieri.Hathaway She has credited quitting smoking for the subsequent decline in her stress level and returned to being a vegetarian. Hathaway became a vegan in early 2012, but she quit in 2014.
Hathaway married actor and businessman Adam Shulman on September 29, 2012, in Big Sur, California, in a traditional Jewish ceremony. Their first son was born in March 2016. That year, Hathaway purchased an apartment worth $2.55 million on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, where she lives with Shulman and their son.Hathaway and Shulman sold their wedding photo and donated its profits to same-sex marriage advocacy group Freedom to Marry. They also hosted Freedom to Marry’s National Engagement Party, an event which raised $500,000. In July 2019, Hathaway announced they were expecting their second child together, and opened up about her struggles with conception and infertility. Their second son was born in November 2019.