Anne Hathaway wanted to be a stage actress like her mother, and grew up playing children's roles at a respected New Jersey theater, the Paper Mill Playhouse. In 1999, she played a high school girl in the short-lived Fox TV drama Get Real. A year after that show was cancelled, Hathaway was picked to star opposite Julie Andrews in a Disney film, The Princess Diaries. She then starred in an adaptation of Charles Dickens' Nicholas Nickleby, Ella Enchanted (another fluffy fairy tale), and a sequel to The Princess Diaries. By this time she was in danger of repeating Andrews' career mistake of becoming a "family film" brand name, so Hathaway made the decidedly more adult Havoc and Brokeback Mountain.
[1] Told GQ magazine in 2010: "The whole family converted to Episcopalianism after my elder brother came out. Why should I support an organization that has a limited view of my beloved brother?" However, Episcopalianism apparently did not agree with her either: "So I'm... nothing. Fuck it, I'm forming. I'm a work in progress."
Father: Gerard Hathaway (lawyer)
Mother: Kate McCauley (stage actress)
Brother: (two brothers: one older, one younger)
Boyfriend: Topher Grace (actor, dated 1999-2004)
Boyfriend: Raffaello Follieri (real estate developer, together 2004-08, convicted of fraud and imprisoned)
Husband: Adam Shulman (actor, together since 2010, m. 29-Sep-2012)
High School: Millburn High School, Millburn, NJ (2000)
University: English, Vassar College (transferred)
University: Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University
Emmy 2010 Outstanding Voice-Over Performance, for The Simpsons
Oscar for Best Supporting Actress 2013 for Les Misérables
Converted to Anglicanism from Catholicism
Risk Factors: Depression, Vegetarian
TELEVISION
Get Real Meghan Green (1999)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
The Hustle (8-May-2019)
Serenity (24-Jan-2019)
Ocean's Eight (5-Jun-2018)
Colossal (9-Sep-2016)
Alice Through the Looking Glass (10-May-2016)
The Intern (15-Sep-2015)
Interstellar (26-Oct-2014)
Rio 2 (20-Mar-2014) [VOICE]
Song One (20-Jan-2014)
Girl Rising (7-Mar-2013) [VOICE]
Don Jon (18-Jan-2013)
Les Misérables (5-Dec-2012)
The Dark Knight Rises (19-Jul-2012)
One Day (8-Aug-2011) · Emma
Rio (3-Apr-2011) · Jewel [VOICE]
Love and Other Drugs (4-Nov-2010) · Maggie Murdock
Alice in Wonderland (3-Mar-2010) · White Queen
Valentine's Day (10-Feb-2010) · Liz
PoliWood (1-May-2009) · Herself
Bride Wars (5-Jan-2009)
Passengers (26-Sep-2008)
Valentino: The Last Emperor (7-Sep-2008) · Herself
Rachel Getting Married (3-Sep-2008) · Kym
Get Smart (18-Jun-2008)
Becoming Jane (2-Mar-2007)
The Devil Wears Prada (29-Jun-2006)
Brokeback Mountain (2-Sep-2005) · Lureen Newsome
Havoc (13-May-2005)
The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (7-Aug-2004)
Hoodwinked (16-May-2004) [VOICE]
Ella Enchanted (9-Apr-2004) · Ella
Nicholas Nickleby (27-Dec-2002) · Madeline Bray
The Other Side of Heaven (14-Dec-2001) · Jean Sabin
The Princess Diaries (29-Jul-2001)