Anne Jacqueline Hathaway (born November 12, 1982) is an American actress and singer. One of the world's highest-paid actresses in 2015, she appeared in the Forbes Celebrity 100 in 2009. Her films have earned $6.4 billion worldwide, and she has received multiple awards, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a British Academy Film Award and a Primetime Emmy Award.
Hathaway graduated from Millburn High School, where she played roles in several high school plays, and won a regional award for a role in Once Upon a Mattress. As a teenager, she was cast in the television series Get Real (1999), and found her breakthrough in her debut film, the Disney comedy The Princess Diaries (2001). Hathaway made a transition to adult roles in the 2005 dramas Havoc and Brokeback Mountain. The comedy film The Devil Wears Prada (2006), in which she played a supporting role, was her biggest commercial to that point. She played a recovering alcoholic in the drama Rachel Getting Married (2008), which garnered her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She followed this with roles in commercially successful romantic films Bride Wars (2009), Valentine's Day (2010) and Love & Other Drugs (2010). For the last of these, she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Comedy or Musical.
In 2012, Hathaway starred as Catwoman in her highest-grossing film The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Christopher Nolan's final installment in the Batman trilogy. That year, she also played Fantine, a prostitute dying of tuberculosis, in Tom Hooper's musical romantic drama Les Misérables (2012), for which she earned multiple accolades, including an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Hathaway's later roles include a scientist in the science fiction film Interstellar (2014), the owner of an online fashion site in the comedy film The Intern (2015) and White Queen in Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016). Hathaway has also sung for soundtracks, won an Emmy Award for providing her voice in a television show, appeared on stage and hosted events.
Hathaway is a board member of The Lollipop Theatre Network, and advocates gender equality as a UN Women Goodwill Ambassador. She began dating businessman Adam Shulman in 2008. They married in 2012 and have one son, born March 2016.
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Early life
Anne Jacqueline Hathaway was born in Brooklyn, New York on November 12, 1982. Her father, Gerald Thomas, is a labor attorney, and her mother, Kathleen Ann "Kate" (née McCauley), is a former actress who inspired her daughter to follow in her footsteps. Anne's maternal grandfather was WIP-AM Philadelphia radio personality Joe McCauley. When Hathaway was six years old, her family moved to Millburn, New Jersey, where she grew up. Hathaway is the middle of three children with her older brother, Michael and younger brother, Thomas. Kathleen is of Irish descent, and Gerald is of Irish, French, English and German ancestry. Her surname originates in England.
At age six, when Hathaway watched her mother perform in Les Misérables as Fantine, she instantly became fascinated with stage, but her parents were not keen on allowing her to pursue an acting career. After this, Hathaway's mother quit acting to raise Hathaway and her brothers. Hathaway was raised as Roman Catholic with what she considers "really strong values", and stated that she wished to be a nun during her childhood, but acting was always a high priority for her. At the age of fifteen, her relationship with the Catholic Church changed, after learning that Michael was gay. Her family left the church due to its intolerance of homosexuality, converting to Episcopalianism, but left that too. In 2009, Hathaway stated that her religious beliefs are "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 participated in many school plays and her high school performance as Winnifred in Once Upon a Mattress where she received a Paper Mill Playhouse Rising Star Award nomination for Best Performance by a High School Actress. Later, she appeared in plays, including Jane Eyre and Gigi at New Jersey's Paper Mill Playhouse. She spent several semesters studying as an English major and political science minor at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York where she engaged in political science, Gothic American literature and British literature. She transferred to New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study, referring to her college enrollment as one of her best decisions because she enjoyed being with others who were trying to "grow up". She has stated she would have either become an English teacher or psychologist if she were not acting.
Hathaway studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, and was the first teenager admitted into The Barrow Group Theater Company's acting program. Between 1998 and 1999, she 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. She is a trained stage actress and stated to The Associated Press that she prefers performing on stage to film roles. At the start of her film career, Hathaway's acting style and beauty were compared to the likes of Judy Garland and Audrey Hepburn. She cites Garland as one of her favorite actresses and Meryl Streep as her idol. At the age of sixteen, three days after her performance at Carnegie Hall, Hathaway was cast in the short-lived Fox television series Get Real. The series follows the dysfunctional Green family; Hathaway played the teenager Meghan Green alongside Jon Tenney, Debrah Farentino and Jesse Eisenberg.
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Career
2001-2004: Debut and breakthrough
Hathaway made her film debut The Princess Diaries (2001), which is based on Meg Cabot's 2000 novel of the same name and directed by Garry Marshall. Hathaway auditioned for the role of a princess-to-be during a flight layover on the way to New Zealand. Liv Tyler was originally considered for the role, but Marshall cast Hathaway after his granddaughters saw her audition tape and 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." The New York Times' Elvis Mitchell found Hathaway to be "royalty in the making, a young comic talent with a scramble of features" and praised her chemistry with Heather Matarazzo. For the role, she earned a MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Female Performance nomination. She starred with Christopher Gorham in another Disney film, The Other Side of Heaven (2001), directed by Mitch Davis and inspired by John H. Groberg's memoir In the Eye of the Storm. She won the role over 500 other girls. The Other Side of Heaven 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 received positive reviews for her portrayal of Lili, an optimistic orphan who falls in love with a magician. 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 for her convincing performance. She won a Clarence Derwent Award for Most Promising Female. Later, Hathaway began voicing the audiobook release of The Princess Diaries, including the first three books. She voiced Haru Yoshioka for the English version of The Cat Returns.
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. In 2002, she starred in with Charlie Hunnam and Jamie Bell in Douglas McGrath's comedy-drama, Nicholas Nickleby, which opened to positive reviews. The Deseret News said that the cast was "Oscar-worthy". The film failed to enter wide release and at the North American box office, totaling less than $4 million in ticket sales. Hathaway played the titular character in the fantasy romantic comedy film Ella Enchanted (2004), based on Gail Carson Levine's 1997 novel of the same name. The film opened to mostly indifferent reviews. Hathaway sang two songs in the film as well as three on the soundtrack, including a duet with singer Jesse McCartney.
In 2003, Hathaway declined the role 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). Hathaway was initially hesitant and nervous about starring in the sequel, and only 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.
2005-2008: Transition to adult roles and success
Hathaway said that "anybody who was a role model for children needs a reprieve", although she noted that "it's lovely to think that my audience is growing up with me". She replaced Tara Strong and voiced Red Puckett in Hoodwinked!, and sang the song "Great Big World". It is based on the Little Red Riding Hood folktale, which received mixed reviews by critics. Later, she starred in Barbara Kopple's drama film Havoc, as a spoiled socialite, appearing nude in some of its scenes. Although the content of the film was different from her previous films, Hathaway denied that her role was an attempt to be seen as a more mature actress, citing her belief that doing nudity in certain films is merely a part of what her chosen form of art demands of her; and because of that 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 alongside Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal in Ang Lee's drama Brokeback Mountain (2005). The film depicts the complex emotional and sexual relationship between two men, Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist; Hathaway played the latter's wife. She was originally sent the script with the role of Alma, Ennis Del Mar's wife, but decided to audition for Lureen once she read the screenplay. During her audition, Hathaway lied to Lee about her knowledge of horse riding so he would cast her; she subsequently took horse riding lessons. The film received positive reviews from critics and several Academy Award nominations. Peter Travers of Rolling Stone believed that Hathaway "excels at showing Lureen's journey from cutie-pie to hard case" and Todd McCarthy of Variety opined she "provides an entertaining contrast in wifely disappointment". Hathaway later stated that the content of the film was more important than its award count and that making it made her more aware of the kind of stories she wanted to tell as an actress. From that point on, she realized that she wanted to play roles to move her audiences or otherwise entertain them so much that they forget about their lives.
In 2006, she starred in David Frankel's comedy film The Devil Wears Prada, as an assistant to the powerful fashion magazine editor Miranda Priestly, played by Meryl Streep, whom Hathaway described as being "just divine". Hathaway said that working on the film made her respect the fashion industry a great deal more than she had previously, though she claimed that her personal style is something she "still can't get right". In an interview with Us Weekly, Hathaway discussed the weight loss regimen she and co-star Emily Blunt followed for the film; they cried during their diet because they would get hungry. To prepare for the role, Hathaway volunteered for a few weeks as an assistant at an auction house, where she learned how to bring people's coffee. The film received positive reviews; 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 Devil Wears Prada became Hathaway's biggest commercial success to this 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. Writer and director Judd Apatow says that this happened because she was uncomfortable with the use of real footage of a woman giving birth. Hathaway believes it did not contribute to the film's story. Her only release in 2007 was the biographical romantic drama Becoming Jane, as the titular English author Jane Austen. A fan of Austen since she was fourteen, Hathaway reread Austen's books, conducted historical research including perusing the author's letters, and learned sign language, calligraphy, dance choreography, and to play the piano. She moved to England a month before production began to improve her English accent. The film received mixed reviews from critics; some reviewers negatively focused on Hathaway's performance, nationality and accent. Regardless, Hathaway received a British Independent Film Award for Best Actress nomination for the film.
In October 2008, Hathaway hosted the NBC late-night sketch comedy Saturday Night Live. She also starred in the film adaptation of Mel Brooks' television series Get Smart, in which she played Agent 99, a role she describes as "narcissistic--downright selfish". Considering the role to be "a childhood dream come true", Hathaway learned martial arts and to dance in preparation. While filming an action sequence, Hathaway split the flesh of her shin to the bone, which led to her having 15 stitches. Directed by Peter Segal, the film, centering on an analyst named who dreams of becoming a real field agent and a better spy, was a financial success. Hathaway also made a cameo appearance in the tie-in film Get Smart's Bruce and Lloyd: Out of Control. Hathaway's following film, the American-Canadian mystery thriller Passengers alongside Patrick Wilson, was a critical and commercial failure. She then starred in Rachel Getting Married with Debra Winger as a young woman, who after being released from drug rehabilitation, returns home for her sister's wedding. Hathaway said that the film appealed to her because of its real depiction of relationships and the strong emotional connection she felt with her character. Rachel Getting Married premiered at the 2008 Venice and Toronto International Film Festivals and Hathaway garnered widespread acclaim for her performance. Peter Travers called Hathaway "raw and riveting as Kym" and added that she "acts the hell out of it, achieving a state of sorrowful grace." She garnered nominations for an Academy Award for Best Actress and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Drama.
2009-2011: Romantic films and hosting events
Hathaway starred in Bride Wars (2009), which she described as being "hideously commercial - gloriously so". The romantic comedy, in which Hathaway 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 10 worst chick flicks by Time. Despite this, the film was a commercial success and earned Hathaway an MTV Movie Award for Best Female Performance nomination. Hathaway won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance for providing her voice for episodes of The Simpsons. She played the heroine Viola in the New York Shakespeare Festival's summer 2009 production of Twelfth Night at the Delacorte Theater in New York City. Charles Isherwood opined that Hathaway "dives smoothly and with obvious pleasure into the embrace of a cohesive ensemble cast". For the play, she garnered a nomination for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play.
Hathaway voiced different characters in Family Guy in 2010 and 2011. 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 Gary Marshall. The film was a commercial success, grossing over $215 million worldwide against a budget of $52 million. Hathaway 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", with inspiration drawn from Debbie Harry and the artwork of Dan Flavin. Alice in Wonderland received mixed reviews from critics who praised its visuals, but criticized for its lack of narrative coherence. Commercially, the film grossed $1 billion to become the second highest-grossing of 2010.
Reuniting with Jake Gyllenhall, Hathaway starred as a free-spirited artist suffering from Parkinson's disease in Edward Zwick's erotic romantic comedy-drama Love & Other Drugs, based on the non-fiction book Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman by Jamie Reidy. Preparing for the part, Hathaway spent time with a Parkinson's patient to research on the disease. She watched the work of the actresses Kate Winslet and Penélope Cruz who, in her opinion, have done nudity with sensitivity and dignity. Hathaway believed that her nudity would not put off socially conservative people who would otherwise watch the film. Critics generally praised the film's adult romance but were unenthusiastic about its plot elements. Hathaway's portrayal, of what Roger Ebert calls "warm, lovable", earned her a Satellite Award and a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Comedy or Musical. Hathaway's other projects during this period included the romantic comedy The Fiancé, based on Julie Buxbaum's novel The Opposite of Love, and an adaptation of Gerald Clarke's biography Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland. 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.
In 2011, Hathaway voiced Jewel, a Spix's macaw from Rio de Janeiro, in the animated film Rio, produced by 20th Century Fox and Blue Sky Studios. The film received generally positive reviews from film critics who praised the visuals, voice acting and music. A commercial success, it grossed over $484 million worldwide against a budget of $90 million. Later, Hathaway starred alongside Jim Sturgess in One Day, which is based on David Nicholls' 2009 novel of the same name and directed by Lone Scherfig. The film tells the story of two young people who meet twenty years after they shared a one-night stand together. Hathaway was clandestinely given the script as One Day was set in the UK and Scherfig was not looking for any American actresses for the part. After a nonproductive meeting with Scherfig, Hathaway left a list of songs for Scherfig to listen to, which eventually led to Hathaway getting the part. However, Hathaway's Yorkshire accent in the film was considered subpar. Columnist Suzanne Moore, reviewing the film on BBC Radio 4's Front Row, said the accents were "all over the shop", adding, "Sometimes she's from Scotland, sometimes she's from New York, you just can't tell". The film itself received polarized reviews from critics, but became a moderate box office success.
2012-2014: Les Misérables and films with Christopher Nolan
In 2012, Hathaway's audiobook recording of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was released at Audible.com and garnered her a nomination for Audie Award for Best Solo Narration - Female. Later in 2012, Hathaway played sly, morally ambiguous cat burglar Selina Kyle in The Dark Knight Rises, Christopher Nolan's final installment in the Batman trilogy. Hathaway auditioned not knowing what role she was being considered for, admitting that she had one character in mind, but only learned her role after talking with Nolan for an hour. She described the role as being the most physically demanding she had ever played, as she had to redouble her efforts in the gym to keep up with the demands of the role. Hathaway trained extensively in martial arts for the role, and looked to Hedy Lamarr in developing her role as Catwoman. The Dark Knight Rises received a positive critical response and grossed over $1.085 billion worldwide, becoming the third-highest-grossing film of 2012. A review published in IGN wrote of her "magnetic presence", adding, "Hathaway imbues her [character] with a wounded spirit and a survivor's edge that makes her feel genuine and sympathetic". Hathaway won the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance.
Hathaway played Fantine, a prostitute dying of tuberculosis, in Tom Hooper's film Les Misérables, which was based on the musical of the same name. Footage of Hathaway singing "I Dreamed a Dream," a song from the film, was shown at CinemaCon in April 2012. Hooper described Hathaway's singing as "raw" and "real." Preparing for the role, Hathaway consumed fewer than 500 calories a day to lose 25 pounds (11 kg), researched on prostitution, and cut her hair. To get into the character's mental space alone during filming in London, Hathaway sent her husband back to the US; this resulted in her becoming increasingly temperamental. Christopher Orr from The Atlantic wrote that "Hathaway gives it everything she has, beginning in quiet sorrow before building to a woebegone climax: she gasps, she weeps, she coughs." Ann Hornaday of The Washington Post wrote that "The centerpiece of a movie composed entirely of centerpieces belongs to Anne Hathaway, who as the tragic heroine Fantine sings another of the memorable numbers". For the film, Hathaway won an Academy, a Golden Globe, a Screen Actors Guild and a BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress. Asked if she was pleased with her performance in the film, Hathaway expressed doubts, replying with "Eh". In January 2013, Hathaway's rendition of "I Dreamed a Dream" reached number 69 on the Billboard Hot 100.
After narrating the documentary Girl Rising (2013) and briefly appearing in the romantic comedy Don Jon (2013), Hathaway starred in and co-produced (with her husband and others) Song One. In the drama film, she played an anthropology student who returns to home to see her injured brother, Henry (played by Ben Rosenfield), a musician, and soon begins a romantic relationship with his favorite musician, James Forester (played by Johnny Flynn). Hathaway's character was initially written as 19 years old, but Kate Barker-Froyland, the film's writer, rewrote the part to be that of an older woman after Hathaway was cast. Hathaway says that the reason she decided to produce the film was because of its depiction of the healing power of music and second chance. For the film's soundtrack, she provided her voice for the song "Afraid of Heights". Song One premiered in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the 30th Sundance Film Festival in January 2014, and released in theaters the following year to mixed reviews from critics. Commercially, the film failed to recover its $6 million budget.
Hathaway reprised her role as Jewel in the animated film Rio 2--her third film with Jamie Foxx--which was released in 2014. It grossed about five times more than its $103 million budget. Hathaway starred in Christopher Nolan's epic science fiction film Interstellar. Set in a dystopian future where humanity is struggling to survive, the film follows a group of astronauts who travel through a wormhole in search of a new home for humanity. With a budget of $165 million, the high-profile production, co-starring Matthew McConaughey and Jessica Chastain, was filmed mostly using IMAX cameras. Hathaway was drawn to her character's growth from an arrogant to a humbler person. While filming a water scene in Iceland, Hathaway almost suffered hypothermia because the dry suit she was wearing had not been properly secured. Critics for The Independent and Empire wrote that she was "affecting" as a scientist unable to decide between her professional responsibilities and her feelings and played it with "soulful nuance". She earned a nomination for a Saturn Award for Best Actress. Interstellar earned over $675 million worldwide.
2015-present: The Intern and beyond
Hathaway began 2015 with an appearance in the first season of the musical reality show Lip Sync Battle (2015). In the episode she competed against her The Devil Wears Prada costar Emily Blunt, lip syncing "Love" by Mary J. Blige and "Wrecking Ball" by Miley Cyrus. Nancy Meyers' The Intern was Hathaway's only film work in 2015. The film tells the story of Ben Whittaker (played by Robert DeNiro), a seventy-year old widower who becomes a senior intern at an online fashion site run by Hathaway's character, Jules Ostin. Wanting to work with her favorite actor DeNiro and director Meyers, Hathaway, impressed with the film's story, auditioned for Meyers for the third time. Reviews for the film were generally positive; one in Chicago Sun-Times found her "extremely appealing" and another in Vulture wrote "The Intern gets off on De Niro's amiability and Hathaway's sweet energy". Against a production budget of $35 million, the film grossed $194 million worldwide. The 2015 found footage horror movie Be My Cat: A Film for Anne, about a young man in Romania who goes to shocking extremes to convince Hathaway to star in his film, was officially selected and had its North American premiere in April 2016 at the Nashville Film Festival.
Hathaway reprised the role of the White Queen in Alice Through the Looking Glass, the sequel to Alice in Wonderland. That March, it was reported that she would reprise her role for The Princess Diaries 3. However, the project was cancelled after the death of Gary Marshall, who was set to direct the film. Hathaway is one of several actors featured on Barbra Streisand's 2016 album Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway. Along with Daisy Ridley, Hathaway and Streisand perform the song At The Ballet from A Chorus Line, with Hathaway performing the role of Maggie, one of a trio of dancers hoping to be cast in an upcoming show. Her final film that year was alongside Jason Sudeikis in Nacho Vigalondo's science fiction black comedy film Colossal (2016). Playing an unemployed young writer, Hathaway was the first actress to sign on at a time when the project had no financial backing. She found herself attached to the genre-hopping nature of the script, later comparing it to Being John Malkovich, one of her favorite films. The film received positive reviews from critics, but earned only $4 million at the box-office.
In November 2015, she joined the ensemble cast of Shane Carruth's third film The Modern Ocean, alongside Keanu Reeves and Daniel Radcliffe. In August 2016, Hathaway joined the all-female spin-off of the Ocean's Eleven franchise, titled Ocean's 8 directed by Gary Ross, opposite Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Helena Bonham Carter, Mindy Kaling, Rihanna, Sarah Paulson and Awkwafina. She is also slated for Steven Knight's Serenity alongside Matthew McConaughey and Diane Lane. She will star as the titular character in a live-action film adaptation of the Barbie film series.
Personal life
Relationships
In 2004, Hathaway developed a romantic relationship with Italian real estate developer Raffaello Follieri. Follieri's Manhattan-based foundation, established in 2003, 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.
On June 24, 2008, Follieri was arrested on charges of defrauding investors out of millions of dollars in a scheme in which Follieri posed as the Vatican's point man on real-estate investing. 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; however, Hathaway was not charged with any crime. On October 23, 2008, after earlier pleading guilty, Follieri was sentenced to four and a half years in prison.
Hathaway married actor and businessman Adam Shulman on September 29, 2012, in Big Sur, California in an interfaith Christian and Jewish service. In late November 2015, it was announced that Hathaway and Shulman were expecting their first child. Hathaway gave birth to their son, Jonathan Rosebanks Shulman, on March 24, 2016.
Charity work and other interests
Hathaway previously served as an long-term advocate for Nike Foundation to raise awareness against child marriage. She traveled to various countries to heed the rights of women and girls including Kenya and Ethiopia. In 2008, she was honored at Elle magazine's "Women in Hollywood" tribute, and has also been honored for her work with Step Up Women's Network. She then teamed up in 2010 with World Bank in a two-year development program The Girl Effect whose mission focuses on helping empower girls in developing and developed nations whom one-third of young women are not employed and not in school. In 2013, she provided the narration on Girl Rising, a CNN documentary film, which focused on the power of female education as it followed seven girls around the world who sought to overcome obstacles and follow their dreams.
Hathaway currently serves on the board of The Lollipop Theatre Network, and is involved with charities The Creative Coalition, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, The Human Rights Campaign.
In early 2007, Hathaway spoke of her experiences with depression during her teenage years, saying that she eventually overcame the disorder without medication. In 2008, on Late Show with David Letterman, Hathaway said she had once again stopped smoking. The actress, who had begun smoking "heavily" while filming Rachel Getting Married, had "quit for a while", but had started again in the wake of her stressful summer and the end of her relationship with Raffaello Follieri. She credited quitting smoking for the subsequent decline in her stress level, and declared her return to being vegetarian. She later became a vegan in early 2012, but quit during filming of Interstellar in August 2014.
Hathaway is an LGBT rights supporter and has donated money to organizations that support marriage equality. In 2016, Hathaway was appointed UN Women Goodwill Ambassador, and later spoke on International Women's Day in 2017 in favor of paid parental leave for both men and women.
In the media
John Hiscock of The Daily Telegraph finds Hathaway a "well-grounded, friendly young woman with a good sense of humour, a wide smile and an easy-going attitude". He says that despite considerable success Hathaway has never "gone Hollywood", staying close to her friends. In the book 365 Style, Nicky Hilton and Allie Kingsley note her girl next door image and Nancy Meyers (who directed her in The Intern) says she is "wise beyond her years". Laura Brown in Harper's Bazaar considers her to be "a woman who is sincere to a fault, as earnest as quinoa. A woman who is warm and funny". After her Golden Globe acceptance speech for Les Miserables, members of the media began to dismiss her as "too-actress-y, over-eager" and inauthentic. Addressing this, Hathaway said in 2014 that she feels anxious speaking to the public, but has since grown from it and become a more compassionate person.
Hathaway is one of the most accomplished actresses of her generation. In a review of her work in Twelfth Night, Charles Isherwood wrote, "on screen or onstage Ms. Hathaway possesses the unmistakable glow of a natural star". Describing her career in 2015, Hathaway said that after her breakthrough in The Princess Diaries, she struggled to find serious roles or ones that were not about princesses. According to Judi Gugliemli of People, Hathaway used this fear of being typecast to build a versatile body of work. Gugliemli believes that Hathaway's ability to extensively research on her roles is the key to her success. Meyers calls her "gifted", acknowledging her as among the few women "who can do it all [...] She can do everything". Hathaway aspires to appear in many different films, work with different directors and play diverse roles. Similarly, a writer for The Daily Telegraph commends her willingness to appear in different genres, ranging from action comedies to dramas. Hathaway says she would be "lost" without acting and feels lucky to have found it as her profession. "I always assume that every film is my last, and I always assume that I have to go out and convince everybody why they have to hire me. I still audition", she explains.
Forbes reported Hathaway as one of the highest paid actresses of 2015, and since 2017 she is among the highest-grossing actresses of the 21st century. In 2009, Hathaway was included in Forbes' annual list of Celebrity 100 with earnings of $7 million, and was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Analyzing her earnings in 2010, the magazine included her in Hollywood's Best Actors for the Buck, the highest return profit among actresses. As of October 2017, her films have grossed $6.4 billion worldwide. Profiled as among the world's leading actresses by Vanity Fair, Hathaway, according to Catherine Elsworth of The Daily Telegraph, is pursued both by directors and cosmetics companies. In January 2008, she joined beauty giant Lancôme as the face of their fragrance Magnifique. In 2011, Hathaway became the new face of the Italian company Tod's.
In 2010, she was named one of the sexiest stars of the year by Entertainment Weekly, In 2011, Los Angeles Times Magazine listed her as one of the 50 Most Beautiful Women in Film.
Works and accolades
Hathaway's most acclaimed and highest-grossing films, according to the online portal Box Office Mojo and the review aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes, include The Princess Diaries (2001), Brokeback Mountain (2005), The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Get Smart (2008), Rachel Getting Married (2008), Valentine's Day (2010), Alice in Wonderland (2010), Love and Other Drugs (2010), The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Les Misérables (2012), Interstellar (2014) and The Intern (2015).
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External links
- Anne Hathaway on IMDb
- Anne Hathaway on Facebook
- Anne Hathaway at Box Office Mojo
- Anne Hathaway at Rotten Tomatoes
- Anne Hathaway at AllMusic
- Anne Hathaway discography at Discogs
- Works by or about Anne Hathaway in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- Anne Hathaway at the Internet Broadway Database
- Anne Hathaway at Internet Off-Broadway Database
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