Anne Hathaway Bio, Age, Height, Early Life, Career, Personal Life & More
Posted By: Nazia Mughal | March 3, 2018Anne Hathaway Biography
Anne Hathaway is an American actress and singer. She is one of highest paid actresses in 2015. She the owner of multiple awards, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, A British Academy Film Award, and an Emmy.
Anne was born on Nov 12, 1982, in New York, United States. She has been active since 1999.
Anne Hathaway Childhood
Anne is the daughter of Gerald, who is a labor attorney and Kate who is the former actress. Her maternal grandfather was WIP-AM Philadelphia radio personality, Joe McCauley. Her mother belongs to Irish descent while her father is of Irish, French, English and German ancestry. Hathaway’s surname originates in England. Hathaway, named after Shakespeare’s wife, was six years old when her family moved to Millburn, New Jersey, where she was raised. She is the second of three children, with an elder brother, Michel and a younger brother, Thomas.
At the age of 6, she watched her mother perform in Les as Fantine, she attracted towards the stage, but her parents were not interested to allow her to seek an acting career. After this Kate resigned acting to care Hathaway and her brothers. She was grown up as Roman Catholic with what she called “really strong values,” and she stated that during her childhood she wished to be a nun but the acting was always a high profile for her.
At the age of 15, her relationship with the Catholic church changed, after learning that Michael was gay. Her family left the church due to its intolerance of homosexuality converting to Episcopalianism but left that too. In 2009 she told to the camera that her religious beliefs are “a work in progress.”
Anne Hathaway Early Career
Hathaway went to Brooklyn Heights Montessori School and Wyoming Elementary School in Millburn. She graduated from Millburn High School where she was a good player of soccer and participated in many plays including “once upon a Mattress” in which she portrayed Winnifred. Later she was also seen in plays like “Jane Eyre” and “Gigi.” In 1993, she studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and was the teenager admitted into the barrow group. She spent several semesters studying as an English major and political science minor at Vassar College in New York. She stated that she would have either become an English teacher or psychologist if she were not acting.
Between 1998 and 1999, Hathaway sang soprano with the All-Eastern U.S High School Honors Chorus at Carnegie Hall and in plays at Seton Hall Preparatory School in West Orange, New Jersey. At the start of her acting career, her beauty and style were compared to the likes of Judy Garland, whom she cites as one of her favorite actresses. She was featured in in TV series “Get Real.” Despite early success, Hathaway faced depression and sadness as a teenager; she says she has since grown it. Anne missed the first semester of her college for the filming of her cinematic debut “the Princess Diaries” in 2001. She never showed any regret upon this.
Anne Hathaway Career
Hathaway got a lot of her name by playing in “Princess Diaries” and adventure drama “the other side of Heaven.” Hathaway gave audition for the role during a flight layover on the way to New Zealand. The film’s director Garry Marshall initially considered Liv Tyler for the role, but later he cast Hathaway after his granddaughter suggested that she had the best “princess hair.” The film got major commercial success, reaching $165 million worldwide. Many critics praised the performance of Hathaway. She earned an MTV movie award for Best Breakthrough Female Performance.
Owing to the success of Princess Diaries, People Magazine named Hathaway one of its breakthrough stars of 2001. In Feb 2002, she starred in the City Center Encores, in her New York stage debut. She played Lili, an optimistic orphan who falls in love with a magician.
Hathaway won Clarence Derwent award for most promising female. Later, she voiced the audiobook release of the first three books in the Princess Diaries novels.
In 2002, she starred in comedy-drama “Nicholas Nickleby” which received positive reviews. She also played in the romantic comedy film “Ella Enchanted” which was poor at the box office. In 2003, she declined the role of Joel Schumacher’s The Phantom of the Opera.
She starred in the drama “Havoc” like a spoiled socialite. Although this film was different from her previous films, she cited that she did as mature actress.
In 2006, she starred in David’s comedy film “the devil wears Prada” as an assistant to the powerful fashion magazine editor Miranda, played by Meryl Streep. Hathaway stated that working on the film made her value in the fashion industry which was a great deal.
In Oct 2008, she hosted the NBC late-night sketch comedy “Saturday night live.”
Anne Hathaway Facts
While filming action in 2008, Hathaway split the flesh of her shine to the bone, which resulted in 15 stitches. She also learned martial arts and dancing techniques to improve her career.
In 2009, Hathaway featured in Bride wars which she described as glorious. The film was successful and blessed Hathaway Movie Award For Best Female Performance nomination. She also participated in the Twelfth Night.
In 2010, she appeared as the receptionist who dates a clerk in romantic comedy “valentine day” the film was a commercial success, grossing more than $215 million worldwide against a budget of $52 million.
In 2011, she voiced Jewel from Rio de Janeiro, in the animated film “Rio.” In the next year, her audiobook recording f Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was released at Audible.com and blessed her a nomination for an Audie award for best solo narration female.
Hathaway began 2015 with an appearance in the first season of the musical reality show Lip Sync Battle. She reprised the role of White Queen in “Alice Through the Looking Glass” the 2016 sequel to Alice in Wonderland.
Anne Hathaway Personal life
In 2004, she remained in a romantic relationship with Raffaello Follieri who is Italian real estate developer.
Hathaway married actor and businessman Adam Shulman in Sep 2012 in California in a traditional ceremony. She gave birth to their son in 2016 whose name is Jonathan Rosebank Shulman.
In 2016, she was appointed as UN Women Goodwill ambassador and later spoke on International Women’s Day in 2017 in favor of paid parental leave for both men and women. She also criticized Hollywood for gender inequality.
In 2018, she collaborated with 300 women in Hollywood to set up the “Time’s Up” initiative to secure women from the evil of harassment and discrimination.
She currently serves on the board of Lollipop Theatre Network and is involved with charities The Creative Coalition, St. Jude Children’s Reseach Hospital and the Human Rights Campaign.