Anne Hathaway

Anne Jacqueline Hathaway, born November 12, 1982, in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Millburn, New Jersey, is an Academy Award-winning actress of extraordinary range, discipline, and intelligence whose career spans from beloved teenage fairy-tale princess to harrowing dramatic roles with equal conviction, and who has become one of the most consistently interesting and self-aware performers working in contemporary Hollywood. Raised in a Catholic household in New Jersey — her mother Kathleen, a stage actress, was her primary creative inspiration — she studied drama at Vassar College before transferring to New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. She came to global attention as Mia Thermopolis in the Disney family film The Princess Diaries (2001) and its sequel, roles that made her a beloved figure to a generation of young girls and established her as a natural screen presence of warmth and comedic gift. She demonstrated her dramatic range in Brokeback Mountain (2005), The Devil Wears Prada (2006, opposite Meryl Streep, in which she played the put-upon assistant with enormous skill and charm), Rachel Getting Married (2008, her first Oscar nomination for Best Actress), Alice in Wonderland (2010), Love and Other Drugs (2010), The Dark Knight Rises (2012) as Selina Kyle / Catwoman, Les Miserables (2012, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress performing I Dreamed a Dream in a single continuous take with devastating, unbroken emotional commitment), Interstellar (2014), The Intern (2015), Colossal (2016), Ocean's 8 (2018), The Hustle (2019), The Witches (2020), Locked Down (2021), and Armageddon Time (2022). Her willingness to take risks, her intellectual engagement with her work, and her refusal to be defined by any single type of role make her one of the most interesting stars of her generation.