Anne Hathaway
Anne Jacqueline Hathaway born November 12 1982 is an American actress. The recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award, she was among the world's highest paid actresses in 2015. Her films have grossed over $6.8 billion worldwide, and she appeared on the Forbes Celebrity 100 list in 2009.
Hathaway performed in several plays in high school. As a teenager, she was cast in the television series Get Real 1999 2000 and made her breakthrough by playing the lead role in the Disney comedy The Princess Diaries 2001. After starring in a string of family films, including Ella Enchanted 2004, Hathaway made a transition to adult roles with the 2005 drama Brokeback Mountain. The comedy drama The Devil Wears Prada 2006, in which she played an assistant to a fashion magazine editor was her biggest commercial success to that point. She played a recovering addict in the drama Rachel Getting Married 2008. Which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Hathaway went on to star in several commercially successful films, including the comedy Get Smart 2008 the romances Bride Wars 2009 Valentine's Day 2010 and Love & Other Drugs 2010 and the fantasy film Alice in Wonderland 2010. In 2012 she starred as Catwoman in her highest-grossing film The Dark Knight Rises and played Fantine a prostitute dying of tuberculosis in the musical Les Misérables winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She has since played a scientist in the science fiction film Interstellar 2014 the owner of an online fashion site in the comedy The Intern 201 a haughty actress in the heist film Ocean's 8 2018 a con artist in the comedy The Hustle 2019 and Rebekah Neumann in the miniseries WeCrashed 2022.
Hathaway has won a Primetime Emmy Award for her voice role in the sitcom The Simpsons sung for soundtracks appeared on stage and hosted events. She supports several charitable causes. She is a board member of the Lollipop Theatre Network an organization that brings films to children in hospitals and advocates for gender equality as a UN Women goodwill ambassador. Hathaway is married to actor and businessman Adam Shulman and has two sons with him.
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 mothe Kate née McCauley is a former actress. Hathaway's maternal grandfather was WIP AM Philadelphia radio personality Joe McCauley. Her mother is of Irish descent and her father has Irish French English and German ancestry. Hathaway was named after Shakespeare's wife. She is the second of three children, following brother Michael and preceding brother Thomas. When she was six her family moved to Millburn New Jersey where she was raised.
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 stated that she 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 15 after learning that her older brother Michael was gay. Her family left the church, converting to Episcopalianism because of its acceptance of homosexuality but eventually left that too. In 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 other plays like 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.
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. At the start of her film career her acting style and appearance were compared 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; she said in 2008 she had since grown from it. She missed her first college semester for the filming of her cinematic debut The Princess Diaries 2001. She says she never regretted not finishing her degree, as she enjoyed being with others who "were trying to grow up"
Career
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 praised 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.
Owing to the success of The Princess Diaries, People magazine named Hathaway one of its breakthrough stars of 2001. In February 2002 Hathaway starred in the City Center Encores! concert production of Carnival! in her New York City stage debut. She played Lili an optimistic orphan who falls in love with a magician. Before rehearsing with the full cast Hathaway trained with a vocal coach for two weeks. She memorized almost all her lines and songs at the first read through. Critics generally praised her for holding her own against well known actors and heralded her as a new star. In a positive review for the musical, Charles Isherwood of Variety called Hathaway the highlight of the show and "remarkably unaffected and winning", praising her convincing performance. She won a Clarence Derwent Award for Most Promising Female. Later, Hathaway voiced the audiobook release of the first three books in The Princess Diaries novels.
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.[29] 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 film 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 book but did not work as a film, and therefore prefers the film the way it became. The film opened to mostly mixed reviews. Hathaway sang three songs on the film's soundtrack, including a duet with singer Jesse McCartney.
In 2003 Hathaway turned down the role of Christine Daaé for Joel Schumacher's The Phantom of the Opera 2004 because the production schedule of the film overlapped with The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement 2004. She was initially hesitant and nervous about starring in the sequel but agreed to it after Marshall convinced her that she was not repeating anything. The film was released in August 2004 to negative reviews but made $95.1 million against a $40 million budget.
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