Anne Hathaway

Anne Hathaway

Anne Jacqueline Hathaway is an American actress. She is the recipient of many awards, including an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Golden Globe Award. She was one of the highest-paid actresses in the world in 2015. Her films have earned over USD 6. 8 billion worldwide.

About Anne Hathaway in brief

Summary Anne HathawayAnne Jacqueline Hathaway is an American actress. She is the recipient of many awards, including an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Golden Globe Award. She was one of the highest-paid actresses in the world in 2015. Her films have earned over USD 6. 8 billion worldwide, and she appeared in the Forbes Celebrity 100 list in 2009. Hathaway supports several causes, including the Lollipop Theatre Network, and advocates gender equality as a UN Women goodwill ambassador. She has two sons with actor Adam Shulman, with whom she has two daughters. She cites Judy Garland and Audrey Hepburn as one of her favorite actresses—and Audrey is her favorite actress of all time. She said she would have become an English teacher if she were not an actress. Her parents were not keen on allowing her to pursue an acting career, but she became fascinated with the stage when she watched her mother perform in Les Misérables as Fantine. At the start of her film career, her acting style and beauty were compared to that of Judy Garland. Her father is a labor attorney, and her mother Kate is a former actress. In 2012, Hathaway starred as Selina Kyle in her highest-grossing film The Dark Knight Rises, the final installment in the Dark Knight trilogy. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the musical romantic drama LesMisérables, for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award. Her mother quit acting to raise Hathaway and her brothers.

She considers her religious beliefs to be “a work in progress”; she said in 2009 that she has “really strong values” and wished to be a nun during her childhood. She grew up in Millburn, New Jersey, where she played soccer and participated in many plays, including Once Upon a Mattress, in which she portrayed Winnifred. She went on to star in the commercially successful romantic films Bride Wars, Valentine’s Day, Love & Other Drugs, and the fantasy film Alice in Wonderland. She spent several semesters studying as an English major at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, before transferring to New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. In 1998 and 1999, she sang soprano with the All-Eastern U.S. Sorus Chorus at Carnegie Hall Preparatory School in West Orange. In 2009, she became the first teenager admitted into the Barrow Group Theater’s acting program. She played Fantine, a prostitute dying of tuberculosis, in the romantic dramaLes Misérable. She then played a scientist in the science fiction film Interstellar, the owner of an online fashion site in the comedy The Intern, a haughty actress in the heist film Ocean’s 8, and an evil witch in the fantasy comedy The Witches. She also has a voice role in The Simpsons, sung for soundtracks, appeared on stage, and hosted events, and has hosted events. Her maternal grandfather was WIP Philadelphia radio personality Joe McCauley. She was named after Shakespeare’s wife.