Anne Hathaway

Anne Hathaway Profile

Name - Anne Hathaway

Birth Date - November 12, 1982

Birth Place - Brooklyn, New York, USA

Nationality - American

Height - 5' 8"

Profession - actress

Education - Millburn Highschool, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. (major in
English)

Relationship - Raffaello Follieri (property developer)

Father - Gerald Hathaway (attorney)

Mother - Kate McCauley (actress)

Brother - Tom Hathaway

Claim to fame - feature debut as the awkward teenager, Mia Thermopolis, in Disney's The Princess Diaries (2001)

Anne Hathaway Biography

Anne
Jacqueline Hathaway (born November 12, 1982) is an American film and
stage actress. Hathaway 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 Disney films in the next three years, and she
had the lead roles in Ella Enchanted and The Princess Diaries 2: Royal
Engagement (both 2004). Hathaway took more creative control over her
career in 2005 and co-starred in the adult-themed Havoc and Brokeback
Mountain, both requiring extensive nude scenes, as well as The Devil
Wears Prada (2006), in which she starred opposite Meryl Streep. That
film has become the highest-grossing film of her career. Becoming Jane,
in which she stars as Jane Austen, was released in 2007.

Hathaway's
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.

Hathaway was born in Brooklyn, New York to Gerald
Hathaway, a lawyer, and Kate McCauley, an actress who inspired Hathaway
to follow in her footsteps. She was not named after the wife of
playwright William Shakespeare. She has an older brother, Michael, and
a younger brother, Thomas. Hathaway has mainly Irish and French
ancestry, with more distant German and Native American roots. She was
raised in the Catholic religion with what she considers "really strong
values", and wanted to be a nun during her childhood. However, at
fifteen, she decided not to become a nun after learning that her
brother Michael was gay. Although she was raised as a Catholic, she
felt that she could not be part of a religion that disapproved of her
brother's sexual orientation.

Hathaway was raised in Short
Hills, New Jersey and graduated from Millburn High School where she was
in many school plays. She spent several semesters studying at Vassar
College in Poughkeepsie, New York before transferring to New York
University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study. She referred to
her college enrollment as one of her best decisions because she enjoyed
being with others who were trying to successfully "grow up". Hathaway
was a member of the Barrow Group Theater Company's acting program and
the first teenager admitted. She is a trained stage actress and has
stated that she prefers appearing on stage to film roles.




Hathaway,
a soprano, performed twice in 1998 with the All Eastern U.S. High
School Honors Chorus at Carnegie Hall and has performed in plays at
Seton Hall Prep in West Orange. Three days after performing at Carnegie
Hall, she was cast in the short-lived 1999 television series Get Real.