Anne Hathaway
Anne Jacqueline Hathaway (born November 12, 1982) is an American actress. She made her acting debut in the 1999 television series Get Real, but her first prominent role was in Disney’s family comedy The Princess Diaries (2001), which established her career. She continued to appear in family films over the next three years, and she had the lead roles in Ella Enchanted and The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (both 2004). Hathaway wanted to break the “G-rated” image, and consequently, in 2005 she co-starred in the adult-themed Havoc and Brokeback Mountain, both requiring nude scenes. The Devil Wears Prada (2006), in which she starred opposite Meryl Streep, has become the highest-grossing film of her career. Becoming Jane, in which she stars as Jane Austen, was released in 2007. Her most recent movie, Get Smart, in which she plays the character, Agent 99, was released in June 2008.
Her acting style has been compared to that of Judy Garland and Audrey Hepburn and she cites Hepburn as her favorite actress and Streep as her idol. People magazine named her one of 2001’s breakthrough stars and in 2006 she was listed as one of the world’s 50 Most Beautiful People.
Biography
Personal life
Hathaway enjoys interior design and reading as pastimes. She has cited Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead (1943) as her favorite novel.
In early 2007, Hathaway spoke of her experiences with depression during her teenage years, and said that she eventually overcame the disorder without medication.
From 2004 until June 2008, Hathaway was in a relationship with Italian real estate developer Raffaello Follieri. On June 24, 2008, Follieri was arrested on Vati-Con_Scandal fraud charges for allegedly fleecing investors out of millions of dollars in a phony scheme involving purchasing Catholic properties in the U.S. for re-development. The FBI alleged that he posed as a financial representative of the Vatican and had duped people into investing in his fraudulent fund as recently as May 2008. Court papers state that Hathaway was an unwitting beneficiary of the stolen money which had in large part paid for Follieri’s opulent lifestyle of jet-setting, shopping sprees and fine dining. The judge in the case set bail at $21 million with a stipulation that Follieri must remain under house arrest upon being released on bond. Currently, Hathaway is not facing charges nor is under any investigation in regards to these allegations.
In regard to personal strife and subsequent media attention, Hathaway’s self-subscribed mantra is a quote by Oscar Wilde: “The less said about life’s sores the better.”
Filmography
- Bride Wars (2009)
- Passengers (2008)
- Rachel Getting Married (2008)
- Get Smart’s Bruce and Lloyd Out of Control (2008)
- Get Smart (2008)
- Becoming Jane (2007)
- The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
- Brokeback Mountain (2005)
- Havoc (2005)
- Hoodwinked! (2005) (voice)
- The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004)
- Ella Enchanted (2004)
- Nicholas Nickleby (2002)
- Neko no ongaeshi (2002) (voice: English version) …. Haru … aka The Cat Returns (International: English title)
- The Other Side of Heaven (2001)
- The Princess Diaries (2001)
- Get Real