American actress Anne Hathaway has starred in films like ‘The Devil Wears Prada,’ ‘Love and Other Drugs,’ ‘Les Miserables’ and ‘Ocean’s 8. Actress Anne Hathaway got her first big break in 1999 on the short-lived television series Get Real. The daughter of an actress and a lawyer, Hathaway grew up in Millburn, New Jersey. She excelled at performing early on, becoming jonathan rosebanks shulman first and only teenager accepted to The Barrow Group, a theater company and acting school in New York City.
In 1999 Hathaway got her first big break on the television series Get Real, which only lasted one season. She played the oldest daughter, Meghan, on the family drama. Movies’The Princess Diaries’In 2001 Hathaway took on the role that made her famous: She starred as Mia Thermopolis, a smart, klutzy teen who learns she is actually a princess of a small country called Genovia, in The Princess Diaries. The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement’Hathaway returned to the role for the 2004 sequel, The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement. That same year, she played the title character in Ella Enchanted, a twist on the Cinderella story.
The film received mostly positive reviews, with critic Roger Ebert describing her as “beautiful” and “luminous. Brokeback Mountain’Hathaway departed from making family friendly films in 2005, with Havoc and Brokeback Mountain. In the independent film Havoc, she played a privileged Los Angeles teen who drawn to the city’s grittier side. The Academy Award-winning Brokeback Mountain, directed by Ang Lee, featured Hathaway in a supporting role as Lureen, a wife whose husband is in love with a man. In the film, Hathaway plays a struggling journalist who takes a job at a fashion magazine out of desperation, and finds herself working as an assistant for the publication’s difficult and demanding editor-in-chief. Becoming Jane,’ ‘Get Smart’For her next role, Hathaway took on an English accent to play literary legend Jane Austen.
Bride Wars’Hathaway returned to lighter fare with the romantic comedy Bride Wars in 2009, starring opposite Kate Hudson. 58 million at the box office. Alice in Wonderland,’ ‘Love and Other Drugs’Tackling a famous literary character in her next project, Hathaway played the White Queen in Tim Burton’s reimagining of the famous children’s tale Alice in Wonderland in 2010. Catwoman in ‘The Dark Knight Rises,’ ‘Les Miserables’ In 2012, Hathaway landed one of her most exciting roles yet: Playing Catwoman in the third film of Christopher Nolan’s Batman series, The Dark Knight Rises.
Interstellar,’ ‘Alice Through the Looking Glass’The following year, among other projects, Hathaway co-starred in the Christopher Nolan sci-fi epic Interstellar, playing a future scientist and astronaut who seeks a new home for Earth’s inhabitants. In 2015, Hathaway showed off her comedic skills in The Intern with Robert De Niro. Ocean’s 8,’ ‘The Hustle,’ ‘Modern Love’In 2018 Hathaway was featured alongside Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett and other leading ladies in the crime caper Ocean’s 8, drawing favorable reviews for going all-in with her portrayal of an egotistic movie star. The couple had been dating for four years at the time. Hathaway gave birth to their son Jonathan Rosebanks Shulman on March 24, 2016, in Los Angeles. The couple welcomed their second son, Jack, in late 2019.