Anne Hathaway

About Anne Hathaway

Anne Jacqueline Hathaway is an American actress. Her accolades include an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award. Her films have grossed over $6.8 billion worldwide. She appeared on the Forbes Celebrity 100 list in 2009 and was among the world's highest-paid actresses in 2015.

Hathaway performed in several plays in high school and acted as assistant to her magician boyfriend, Brad Ross, in various illusions, including being sawed in half. As a teenager, she was cast in the television series Get Real (1999–2000). She played the lead role in the Disney comedy The Princess Diaries (2001). After starring in several family films, including Ella Enchanted (2004), she moved 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.

Her subsequent films include 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 for the latter. She has since played a scientist in the science fiction film Interstellar (2014), the owner of a fashion website in the comedy The Intern (2015), 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 won her Primetime Emmy Award for a voice role in the sitcom The Simpsons. She has also sung for soundtracks, appeared on stage, and hosted events. 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 of English and Irish descent. She married actor and businessman Adam Shulman on September 29, 2012, in Big Sur, California, in a traditional Hebrew ceremony.