Anne Hathaway

Name: Anne Hathaway
Birth Name: Anne Hathaway
Height: 5 feet, 8 inches (1.73 m)
Sex: Female
Nationality: American
Birth Date: November 12, 1982
Birth Place: Brooklyn, New York
Occupation: Actress
Education: Attended Millburn High school; Majored in English & minored in Women's Studies at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York; Transferred to New York University in 2005.
Father: Gerard Hathaway (lawyer)
Mother: Kate McCauley (singer/stage actress)
Sister: None
Brother: Two brothers
Claim to fame: As the awkward teenager, Mia Thermopolis, in Disney's The Princess Diaries (2001), opposite Julie Andrews.
Facts: William Shakespeare's wife was also named Anne Hathaway. She is a vegetarian; she accidentally fell off of her chair during her audition for the role of Mia Thermopolis in the Princess Diaries and was hired on the spot; first and only teenager admitted to the acting program at the award-winning The Barrow Group in New York. Three days before being cast in the TV show Get Real (1999), she performed in two concerts at Carnegie Hall as member of All-Eastern U.S. High School Honors Chorus.
Awards: Named one of People Magazine's 'Breakthrough Stars of 2001,' Named one of Teen People Magazine's 25 Hottest Stars Under 25 in its June 2002 issue; Won a National Board of Review Award for ‘Best Acting by an Ensemble for the movie Nicholas Nickleby’ (2002); Won the Clarence Derwent Award for her portrayal of Lili in Carnival.

Filmography: Actress

• Becoming Jane (2006) (announced)
• Brokeback Mountain (2005) (post-production)
• Havoc (2005)
• The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004)
• Ella Enchanted (2004)
• Nicholas Nickleby (2002)
• Neko no ongaeshi (2002) ... aka The Cat Returns
• The Other Side of Heaven (2001)
• The Princess Diaries (2001)
• "Get Real" (1999) TV Series


Biography
Anne Hathaway has performed in a TV series, and gained widespread recognition with her role in The Princess Diaries and its 2004 sequel in which she starred with Julie Andrews, as an awkward American teen who suddenly learns she's the crown princess of a European country. The Disney comedy was a box office success and Hathaway was widely proclaimed a rising star. She co-starred in 2002's Nicholas Nickleby (based on the novel by Charles Dickens) and was then cast as the lead in Ella Enchanted (2004), in which she sang a duet with pop star Jesse McCartney. Prior to her silver screen debut, Hathaway starred as Meghan Green in the short-lived Fox TV family drama Get Real (1999).
The daughter of stage actress Kate McCauley and Atty. Gerard Hathaway, Anne was born on November 12th, 1982 in Brooklyn, New York. Anne Hathaway and her two brothers were raised in New Jersey, where she led a tomboyish childhood.
In 1998, she was nominated for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role at the Papermill Playhouse "Rising Star Awards," an award given to high schools across New Jersey. Incidentally, she was nominated for playing the Princess in "Once Upon a Mattress." However, she lost to a girl who played the exact same role. The nomination billet listed her as Annie Hathaway, the name her close friends call her.

After many high school theatrical productions, Anne Hathaway was accepted for study at the Barrow Group in New York City (becoming the first teenager to be accepted in this prestigious acting program). In 1998, she performed at Carnegie Hall with the All-Eastern U.S. High School Honors Chorus.
Anne's first big break came when she landed the part of the only daughter in a 1999 family comedy-drama called Get Real. The show also starred Jesse Eisenberg (brother of the Pepsi kid, Hailie Eisenberg) and Eric Christian Olsen (who went on to star in Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd). The show was a success with critics, and although it had a loyal fanbase, it was cancelled after airing for only one season. Still, Get Real got Anne Hathaway noticed and she was asked to introduce musical acts at the 1999 Teen Choice Awards and the 1999 Billboard Awards.
Though short-lived, the family comedy-drama won a legion of committed fans, especially for Hathaway's character "Meghan Green." The young cast was nominated for a Young Star Artist Award (ensemble) in 2000. When the show ended, Hathaway simply shrugged and went on with her life.

An actress whose first big screen gig also proved to be her breakthrough, Hathaway became a household name to millions of moviegoers thanks to her starring role in Garry Marshall's 2001 hit The Princess Diaries. Cast as a clumsy high school girl who finds out she is the sole heir to the throne of the European country Genovia, Hathaway was able to prove her comedic timing opposite no less than Julie Andrews.
The Princess Diaries (2001) was Anne’s breakthrough role, but it is a little known fact that she auditioned for that part on her way to New Zealand to co-star in another film with Christopher Gorham. Film-makers knew that she would be a big star, so the film in question, The Other Side of Heaven, was delayed in post production and released after The Princess Diaries (2001) in order to capitalize on her stardom.
In the movie The Other Side of Heaven (2001), she played "Jean Sabin," the love interest of a conflicted member of the Church of Latter-Day Saints. The role did not propel her into the spotlight, but it did give her valuable experience in film.
When Anne went to audition for the Disney movie The Princess Diaries (based on the book by Meg Cabot), it wasn't her good looks, charm or raw acting talent that ended up snagging the role for her; it was her klutziness. Anne Hathaway won the role of Mia Thermopolis, in part, by accidentally falling off her chair during her audition. Since the role demanded a klutzy-yet-charming lead actress, Anne's handling of the mishap convinced director Garry Marshall to hire her on the spot. The film was a wave of success and put Anne on the map. People Magazine named Anne Hathaway one of the Breakthrough Stars of 2001 and Teen People named her one of The 25 Hottest Stars Under 25.
She filmed in England with legend Julie Andrews and promoted their film all over Europe and North America. The role brought her a lot of mainstream attention and earned her nominations for a Teen Choice Award in the category Best Actress in a Comedy and an MTV Movie Award for the category Breakthrough Female Performance.
The success of The Princess Diaries opened a number of doors for Hathaway, but she chose the one that led to Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, where she enrolled in 2000. In the years that followed, Hathaway’s studies in Women's Studies and English took notable precedence over her screen career. However, the call of Hollywood was too much to resist and it didn't take long for the studious young actress to once again step before the cameras.

In 2002, Hathaway took part in a stage production of Carnival put on by the esteemed company City Center Encore! She won the prestigious Clarence Derwent Award for her performance, confirming her credibility as a stage actress. Meanwhile, she appeared in a solid film adaptation of Charles Dickens' Nicholas Nickleby and won a National Board of Review Award for Best Acting by an Ensemble for this 2002 movie.
Those who were itching to catch Anne in yet another fairy tale role were again pleased with her performance in Ella Enchanted (2004), where she plays the lead character who is under a spell in which she has to do whatever anyone tells her to do. The movie costars Minnie Driver and newbie British actor Hugh Dancey.
She again reprised her role as Mia Thermopolis for the sequel, The Princess Diaries 2: The Royal Engagement, which hit theaters last August 13, 2004.
A former top-ranking soprano in New York, Anne was supposedly a front-runner for the role of "Christine Daae" in the 2004 film adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera. However, the role was later given to newcomer Emmy Rossum because Anne had a contractual obligation to Disney for Princess Diaries 2: The Royal Engagement. The two flicks had overlapping filming schedules.
Hathaway has been trying hard to shed her sugar-coated image, and this may be a fait accompli with the 2005 movie Havoc. According to reviews, Hathaway and most of the rest of the cast appear nude and engage in simulated sex in several segments of the raunchy film, although it remains to be seen whether these elements of the film will remain intact for general release. Anne Hathaway downplays the film's explicitness in a late 2004 interview for Ingenue magazine.
More recently, Hathaway filmed a supporting role in Western film with gay overtunes, Brokeback Mountain. Hathaway's desire to break out of her Princess Diaries image parallels that of her co-star, Julie Andrews, who went to the extreme length of going topless in the film S.O.B. in order to break away from the image she created for herself in her 1960s musicals.
Hathaway transferred to New York University in 2005.