Hathaway performed in several plays in high school. As a teenager, she was cast in the television series Get Real (1999–2000) and made her breakthrough by playing the lead role in the
Disney comedy The Princess Diaries (2001). After starring in a string of family films, including Ella Enchanted (2004), Hathaway made a transition to adult roles with the 2005 drama Brokeback Mountain. The comedy-drama The Devil Wears Prada (2006), in which she played an assistant to a fashion magazine editor, was her biggest commercial success to that point. She played a recovering addict in the drama Rachel Getting Married (2008), which earned her a nomination for the
Academy Award for Best Actress.
Hathaway has won a
Primetime Emmy Award for her voice role in the sitcom The Simpsons, sung for soundtracks, appeared on stage, and hosted events. She supports several charitable causes. She is a board member of the Lollipop Theatre Network, an organization that brings films to children in hospitals, and advocates for
gender equality as a
UN Womengoodwill ambassador.
Early life and background
Anne Jacqueline "Annie"[1] Hathaway was born on November 12, 1982, in the
Brooklyn borough of New York City. Her father, Gerald, is a labor attorney, and her mother, Kate (née McCauley), is a former actress.[2][3] Hathaway's maternal grandfather was
WIP (AM)Philadelphia radio personality Joe McCauley.[4] According to The Daily Telegraph, she was named after
Shakespeare's wife.[5] She has an older brother, Michael, and a younger brother, Thomas.[6] When Hathaway was six, the family moved to
Millburn, New Jersey, where she was raised.[7]
At age eight,[3] when Hathaway watched her mother perform in the first national tour of Les Misérables as
Fantine, she instantly became fascinated with the stage, but her parents were not keen on allowing her to pursue an acting career. After this, Kate quit acting to raise Hathaway and her brothers.[8] Hathaway was raised as
Roman Catholic with what she considers to be "really strong values" and wished to be a nun during her childhood, but acting was always a high priority for her.[7][9] Her relationship with the Catholic Church changed at age fifteen, after learning that her older brother was gay.[9] Her family left the church, joining the
Episcopal Church because of its acceptance of homosexuality, but they eventually left that too.[10] In 2009, Hathaway described her religious beliefs as "a work in progress".[9]
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. Early in her film career, her acting style and appearance would be likened to
Judy Garland—whom she cites as one of her favorite actresses[11]—and
Audrey Hepburn.[18][19][20][21] Three days after her performance at Carnegie Hall, Hathaway was cast in the short-lived
Fox television series Get Real.[13] She played the teenager Meghan Green, alongside
Jon Tenney,
Debrah Farentino and
Jesse Eisenberg.[22] Despite her early success, Hathaway suffered from depression and anxiety as a teenager. However, she said in 2008 that she had since grown from it.[5] She missed her first college semester for the filming of her cinematic debut, The Princess Diaries (2001).[13] According to Hathaway, she never regretted not completing her degree, as she enjoyed being with others who "were trying to grow up".[17]
Career
2001–2004: Early roles and breakthrough
The comedy The Princess Diaries and the adventure drama The Other Side of Heaven, both 2001
Disney films, featured Hathaway in lead roles. Based on
Meg Cabot's
novel, the former follows teenage
Mia Thermopolis (Hathaway) who discovers that she is the heiress to the throne of the fictional Kingdom of Genovia. Hathaway auditioned for the role during a flight layover on the way to New Zealand.[11] The director
Garry Marshall initially considered
Liv Tyler for the role, but cast Hathaway after his granddaughters suggested that she had the best "princess" hair.[23] The film became a major commercial success, grossing $165 million worldwide.[24] Many critics lauded Hathaway's performance; a
BBC critic noted that "Hathaway shines in the title role and generates great chemistry" and The New York Times'Elvis Mitchell found her to be "royalty in the making, a young comic talent with a scramble of features".[25][26] She earned an
MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Female Performance nomination for the role.[27] Hathaway starred with
Christopher Gorham in
Mitch Davis's The Other Side of Heaven. Inspired by
John H. Groberg's memoir In the Eye of the Storm, the film met with mostly negative reviews and was a box-office failure.[28]
"In terms of the princess role, there is only so long that you can play those as a young lady before you start feeling really ridiculous. They are so much fun to do, I figure I might as well get the most out of them while I can. Then [I'll] go off and play all the drug addicts and the prostitutes, and all the good ones you win Oscars for a little bit later on."
Owing to the success of The Princess Diaries, People magazine named Hathaway one of its breakthrough stars of 2001.[29] In February 2002, Hathaway starred in the City Center Encores! concert production of Carnival! in her New York City stage debut; she was cast as Lili, an optimistic orphan who falls in love with a magician. Before rehearsing with the full cast, Hathaway trained with a vocal coach for two weeks. She memorized almost all her lines and songs at the first read-through.[13] Critics generally praised her for holding her own against well-known actors and heralded her as a new star.[13] In a positive review of the musical,
Charles Isherwood of Variety called Hathaway the highlight of the show and "remarkably unaffected and winning", praising her convincing performance.[30] She won a
Clarence Derwent Award for Most Promising Female.[31] Later, Hathaway voiced the audiobook release of the first three books in The Princess Diaries novels.[32]
Hathaway portrayed princesses and appeared in family-oriented films over the next three years, subsequently becoming known in mainstream media as a children's role model.[29] After voicing Haru Yoshioka for the English version of The Cat Returns (2002),[33] she starred in
Douglas McGrath's comedy-drama Nicholas Nickleby (2002), which opened to positive reviews. However, the film did not enter wide release and failed at the North American box office, totaling less than $4 million in ticket sales.[34] The fantasy romantic comedy Ella Enchanted (2004), in which Hathaway played the titular character, also performed poorly at the box office.[35] She had first read
the book on which the film is based when she was 16, and stated that the script was originally much closer to the source material but did not work as a film, and therefore preferred the picture the way it turned out.[18] It opened to mostly mixed reviews.[36] Hathaway sang three songs on the
film's soundtrack, including a duet with singer
Jesse McCartney.[37]
In 2003, Hathaway turned down the role of Christine Daaé for
Joel Schumacher's The Phantom of the Opera (2004), because the production schedule of the film overlapped with The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004).[31] She was initially hesitant and nervous about starring in the sequel, but agreed to it after Marshall convinced her that she was not repeating anything.[18] The film was released in August 2004 to negative reviews,[38] but made $95.1 million against a $40 million budget.[39]
2005–2008: Transition to adult roles and critical recognition
Hathaway began taking on adult roles in an effort to avoid
typecasting,[29] remarking that "anybody who was a role model for children needs a reprieve", but noted that "it's lovely to think that my audience is growing up with me".[40] After replacing
Tara Strong for the voice role of
Red Puckett in Hoodwinked!,[41] she starred in the drama Havoc (2005) as a spoiled socialite, appearing nude in some of its scenes. While the film was thematically different from her previous releases, Hathaway denied that her role was an attempt to be seen as a more mature actress, citing her belief that performing nudity in certain films is merely a part of what her chosen form of art demands of her; because of this belief she does not consider appearing nude in appropriate films to be morally objectionable.[42] The film was not released in theaters in the United States due to unfavorable critical reception.[43]
In the 2005 drama Brokeback Mountain, which depicts the emotional and sexual relationship between two men married to women,
Ennis Del Mar (played by
Heath Ledger) and
Jack Twist (played by
Jake Gyllenhaal), Hathaway played Lureen, the wife of Jack. The actress was originally sent the script with the part of Ennis' wife in mind, but decided to audition for Lureen instead after she read it.[44] She lied during the audition about her knowledge of riding so that the director
Ang Lee would cast her, but did subsequently take lessons.[45] The film received critical acclaim and several
Academy Award nominations.[46]Peter Travers of Rolling Stone wrote that Hathaway "excels at showing Lureen's journey from cutie-pie to hard case", and
Todd McCarthy of Variety credited her for "provid[ing] an entertaining contrast in wifely disappointment".[47][48] Hathaway stated that the content of Brokeback Mountain was more important than its award count, and that making the film made her more aware of the kind of stories she wanted to tell as an actor.[49] At this point, she realized that she wanted to play roles to move audiences or otherwise entertain them so much that they forget about their own lives.[5]
Hathaway starred in the comedy-drama The Devil Wears Prada (2006), based on
Lauren Weisberger's
novel, as a college graduate who becomes an assistant to a powerful
fashion magazine editor (played by
Meryl Streep).[7] She was "the ninth choice" for the part, citing this later as an inspiration for people to never give up,[50] and in preparation she volunteered for a few weeks as an assistant at an
auction house.[51] She also followed a weight-loss regimen, along with co-star
Emily Blunt, which made them hungry and led to crying.[52] Hathaway stated that working on the film made her respect the fashion industry a great deal more than she did previously, though she admitted that her personal style was something she "still can't get right".[15]The Devil Wears Prada received positive reviews;
Roger Ebert called Hathaway "a great beauty [...] who makes a convincing career girl" and
Rotten Tomatoes found "Streep in top form and Anne Hathaway more than holding her own".[53][54] It proved to be her most widely seen film to that point, with a worldwide gross of over $326.5 million.[55]
Originally cast in Knocked Up, Hathaway dropped out before production and was replaced with
Katherine Heigl. This happened because, according to writer-director
Judd Apatow, the actress was uncomfortable with the use of real footage of a woman in labor;[56] she believed it did not contribute to the film's story.[57] Her sole release of 2007 was the biographical romantic drama Becoming Jane, as the titular English author
Jane Austen.[49] A fan of Austen since age 14, Hathaway prepared for the role by rereading Austen's books and conducting historical research, such as perusing the author's letters; she also learned
sign language,
calligraphy, dance choreography, and the piano. She moved to England a month prior to filming so as to improve her English accent.[a][59] She received a
British Independent Film Award for Best Actress nomination for the film,[60] although some critics negatively focused on her accent and performance.[61]
In October 2008, Hathaway hosted an episode of the
NBC late-night sketch comedy Saturday Night Live.[62] She also starred in
Peter Segal's
film adaptation of
Mel Brooks' television series Get Smart, in which she played
Agent 99. Calling the role "a childhood dream come true", Hathaway learned martial arts and dancing techniques in preparation.[40] While filming an action sequence, she split the flesh of her shin to the bone, which led to her receiving 15 stitches.[5] The film, centering on an analyst who dreams of becoming a real field agent and a better spy, was a financial success.[63] Hathaway's two other releases of 2008 were the drama Rachel Getting Married and the mystery thriller Passengers, the latter of which was a critical and commercial failure.[64] In
Jonathan Demme's Rachel Getting Married, she starred as a young woman who, after being released from drug rehabilitation, returns home for her sister's wedding. Portraying a character she described as "narcissistic—downright selfish," Hathaway garnered critical acclaim for her performance.[65] Peter Travers found her to be "raw and riveting" in the role, adding that she "acts the hell out of it, achieving a state of sorrowful grace".[66] She received
Academy Award and
Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Actress.[65][67]
Hathaway reunited with Jake Gyllenhaal as a free-spirited artist with
Parkinson's disease in
Edward Zwick's erotic romantic comedy-drama Love & Other Drugs, based on the nonfiction book Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman by
Jamie Reidy. For the role, she spent time with a Parkinson's patient to research the disease, and in preparation for its nude scenes, she watched films of
Kate Winslet and
Penélope Cruz who, in Hathaway's view, had performed nudity with sensitivity and dignity.[82][83] She believed these scenes would not discourage socially conservative people from watching the film.[84] Critics generally praised the film's adult romance, but were unenthusiastic about its plot elements.[85] Hathaway's performance, which Ebert called "warm, lovable",[86] earned her a
Satellite Award and a nomination for the
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Comedy or Musical.[87][88] Together with actor
Denzel Washington, Hathaway hosted the
Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo, Norway in December 2010.[89] Two months later, she and
James Franco hosted the
83rd Academy Awards.[90] Critics were unenthusiastic about their chemistry, but thought Hathaway gave her best and did a better job than Franco, who they felt seemed uninterested.[91] At the
63rd Primetime Emmy Awards, she garnered an
Outstanding Variety Special (Live) nomination.[92]
In 2011, Hathaway voiced Jewel, a female
Spix's macaw from Rio de Janeiro, in the animated film Rio, produced by
20th Century Fox and
Blue Sky Studios. It received generally positive reviews from film critics, who praised the visuals, voice acting and music.[93] A commercial success, it grossed more than $484 million worldwide against a budget of $90 million.[94] Later, Hathaway starred alongside
Jim Sturgess in
Lone Scherfig's One Day, based on
David Nicholls'
novel of the same name. The film tells the story of two young people who meet annually for twenty years after they shared a platonic one-night stand together. Hathaway was clandestinely given the script, as One Day was set in Britain, and Scherfig was not looking for any American actresses for the part. After a nonproductive meeting with Scherfig, Hathaway left a list of songs for the director, who after listening to them, cast the actress for the part.[b][95] Hathaway later expressed regret that she might have unwittingly held misogyny during production, as she came to feel that she had not trusted Scherfig as a director because of her gender.[96] Her
Yorkshire accent in the film was considered subpar. Columnist Suzanne Moore, reviewing the film on
BBC Radio 4's Front Row, said Hathaway's accents were "all over the shop", adding, "Sometimes she's from Scotland, sometimes she's from New York, you just can't tell".[97] The film itself received polarizing reviews from critics,[98] but became a moderate box office success.[99][100]
2012–2014: Les Misérables and films with Christopher Nolan
In 2012, Hathaway's audiobook recording of
L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was released at
Audible.com and garnered her an
Audie Award nomination for Best Solo Narration – Female.[101] She then played the sly, morally ambiguous cat burglar
Selina Kyle / Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises, the final installment in
Christopher Nolan's
The Dark Knight trilogy.[102] Hathaway auditioned not knowing what part she was being considered for, admitting that she had
Harley Quinn in mind but only learned her role after talking with Nolan for an hour.[103] She described it as her most physically demanding assignment to that point, as she had to redouble her efforts in the gym to keep up with the requirements of the role.[104][105] She trained extensively in martial arts, and looked to
Hedy Lamarr in developing her performance as Catwoman.[106]The Dark Knight Rises was critically successful and grossed more than $1 billion worldwide, becoming the
third-highest-grossing film of 2012.[107]IGN reviewer Jim Vejvoda labeled Hathaway "a magnetic presence whenever she's onscreen" and added, "Selina may be the proverbial good bad girl, the thief with a heart of gold, but Hathaway imbues her with a wounded spirit and a survivor's edge that makes her feel genuine and sympathetic even when she's being naughty."[108] She won the
Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance.[109]
Hathaway portrayed
Fantine, a prostitute dying of
tuberculosis, in
Tom Hooper's Les Misérables, an adaptation of the
stage musical of the same name. Footage of the actress singing "
I Dreamed a Dream", a song from the film, was shown at the 2012
CinemaCon, where Hooper described her singing as "raw" and "real".[110] In preparation for the role, Hathaway consumed fewer than 500 calories a day to lose 25 pounds (11 kg), researched prostitution, and cut her hair.[111][112] To adopt her character's mental space alone during production in London, she sent her husband back to the United States; this resulted in her becoming increasingly temperamental.[113]Ann Hornaday of The Washington Post asserted that "the centerpiece of a movie composed entirely of centerpieces belongs to Anne Hathaway, who as the tragic heroine Fantine sings another of the memorable numbers".[114] She won the
Academy Award,
Golden Globe,
Screen Actors Guild and
BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress.[115][116] Asked if she was pleased with her performance in the film, Hathaway expressed doubts, replying with "Eh".[115] In January 2013, Hathaway's rendition of "I Dreamed a Dream" reached number 69 on the
Billboard Hot 100.[117]
After briefly appearing in the romantic comedy Don Jon (2013),[118] Hathaway starred in and co-produced (with her husband and others) Song One. In the drama film, she played an anthropology student who returns home to see her injured brother, Henry (played by
Ben Rosenfield), and soon begins a romantic relationship with his favorite musician, James Forester (played by
Johnny Flynn). Her character was originally written as a 19-year-old, but Kate Barker-Froyland, the film's writer and director, changed the part to that of an older woman after casting Hathaway.[119] The actress said the reason she decided to produce the film was because of its depiction of the healing power of music and second chances.[120] For the film's soundtrack, she provided her voice for the song "Afraid of Heights".[121]Song One premiered in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the
30th Sundance Film Festival in January 2014,[122] and released in theaters the following year to mixed reviews from critics.[123] Commercially, the film failed to recoup its $6 million investment.[124]
Hathaway reprised her role as Jewel in the animated film Rio 2—her third film with
Jamie Foxx—which was released in 2014.[125] It grossed nearly five times more than its $103 million budget.[126] Her sole live-action release of 2014 was Christopher Nolan's epic science fiction film Interstellar. Set in a dystopian future where humanity is struggling to survive, it follows a crew of astronauts who travel through a wormhole in search of a new home for mankind. Hathaway was drawn to the part of
NASA scientist Amelia Brand due to the character's growth from an arrogant to a humbler person.[127] With a budget of $165 million, the high-profile production co-starring
Matthew McConaughey was filmed mostly using
IMAX cameras.[128][129] Hathaway nearly experienced hypothermia while filming a water scene in Iceland, as the
dry suit she was wearing had not been properly secured.[130] Reviewers for The Independent and Empire found her to be "affecting" in the part of a scientist unable to decide between her personal feelings and professional responsibilities,[131] and took notice of the "soulful nuance" in her performance.[132]Interstellar grossed over $701 million worldwide,[133] and earned Hathaway a nomination for the
Saturn Award for Best Actress.[134]
2015–2021: Comedic roles and career fluctuations
Hathaway began 2015 with an appearance in the first season of the musical reality show Lip Sync Battle. In the episode, she competed against her The Devil Wears Prada co-star
Emily Blunt; she lip synced "
Love" by
Mary J. Blige and "
Wrecking Ball" by
Miley Cyrus.[135]Nancy Meyers' The Intern was Hathaway's sole film release of 2015. It tells the story of Ben Whittaker (played by
Robert De Niro), a 70-year-old widower who becomes a senior intern at an online fashion site run by Jules Ostin (Hathaway). She had aspired to work with De Niro and Meyers, her favorite actor and director, respectively; impressed with the film's story, she auditioned for the third time for a Meyers film.[c][137] Reviews of the film were generally positive; one in
Roger Ebert's website found her to be "extremely appealing" and a reviewer for New York magazine wrote, "The Intern gets off on De Niro's amiability and Hathaway's sweet energy".[138][139] The film grossed $194 million worldwide against a $35 million budget.[140] The 2015
found footage horror film Be My Cat: A Film for Anne, about an aspiring Romanian filmmaker who goes to shocking extremes to convince Hathaway to star in his film, was officially selected and had its North American premiere at the 2016
Nashville Film Festival.[141]
Hathaway reprised the role of the White Queen in Alice Through the Looking Glass, the 2016 sequel to Alice in Wonderland.[142] That March, it was reported that she would reprise her role for The Princess Diaries 3; the project was shelved after the death of
Garry Marshall, who was set to direct the film.[143] Hathaway is one of several actors featured on
Barbra Streisand's 2016 album Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway. Along with
Daisy Ridley, Hathaway and Streisand performed the song "
At The Ballet" from A Chorus Line; she played the role of Maggie, one of a trio of dancers hoping to be cast in an upcoming show.[144] Her final film that year was alongside
Jason Sudeikis in
Nacho Vigalondo's science fiction black comedy Colossal (2016).[145] Playing an unemployed young writer, Hathaway was the first actress to sign on at a time when the project had no financial backing. She was drawn to the genre-hopping nature of the script, later comparing it to Being John Malkovich (1999), one of her favorite films.[146] The film received positive reviews from critics, but earned only $4 million at the box office.[147][148]
After a two-year absence from the screen, Hathaway starred as a famous actress in Ocean's 8, an all-female spin-off of the
Ocean's Eleven franchise from director
Gary Ross.[149] Co-starring
Sandra Bullock and
Cate Blanchett, it follows a group of criminals who plan to rob the
Met Gala. Hathaway was drawn to the idea of playing someone with an immense ego and saw the part as an opportunity "to lean into all the ridiculous fame nonsense that I've been trying to side-step for all of these years."[150] She hoped the film would be profitable so that it could debunk claims that female-led films do not succeed commercially.[151] Critics generally considered Hathaway to be a scene-stealer among the cast,[152] with
ABC Online's Jason Di Rosso writing, "The film's best moments belong to Hathaway as the anxiety-ridden, vain and capricious starlet. She's the only successful meld of comedy and pathos—a victim of the celebrity treadmill who is also capable of outsmarting it."[153]Ocean's 8 was a box office success, grossing over $297 million worldwide against a $70 million budget.[154]
Hathaway starred opposite
Jared Leto in the
Apple TV+ miniseries WeCrashed, about the company
WeWork; she was also executive producer of the series.[173][174] It received favorable reviews, with particular praise for Hathaway's portrayal of
Rebekah Neumann.[175] Angie Han of The Hollywood Reporter commended her for resisting "the temptation to turn Rebekah into an exaggerated caricature of an entitled woo-woo type, which ultimately only makes Rebekah funnier".[176] Hathaway starred in
James Gray's semi-autobiographical period drama Armageddon Time, portraying a character inspired by Gray's mother.[177] David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter considered it her best performance since Rachel Getting Married, while
Owen Gleiberman of Variety praised Hathaway for making her character "at once affectionate and blinkered".[178][179]
Hathaway's first release of 2024 was as a grieving mother coping with the loss of her son in the psychological thriller Mothers' Instinct.[185] A remake of the
2018 Belgian film, she co-starred with
Jessica Chastain.[186] During filming, Hathaway was forced to create a "protective layer" between herself and her character, requesting for cast and crew members to refer to her by her character’s name as she deemed the loss of a child her "worst fear".[187] Writing for The Guardian,
Peter Bradshaw thought that Chastain displayed a more convincing performance in comparison to Hathaway's "operatic but callow displays of hurt and entitlement".[188] She will next lead the romantic comedy The Idea of You, based on
Robinne Lee's novel of the same name,[189] and will star alongside
Michaela Coel in
David Lowery's Mother Mary.[190]
Public image
Describing her off-screen persona, John Hiscock of The Daily Telegraph wrote in 2014 that Hathaway is a "well-grounded, friendly young woman with a good sense of humour, a wide smile and an easy-going attitude".[191] Hiscock further opines that, despite considerable success, she has never "gone Hollywood", remaining close with her friends.[191] The authors of the book 365 Style noted Hathaway's
girl next door image, and her The Intern director Nancy Meyers says she is "wise beyond her years".[192][193] The journalist
Laura Brown found her to be a "sincere", "warm and funny" woman.[194] After her 2013 awards acceptance speeches for Les Misérables, The Atlantic noted that several media commentators accused her of being "annoying" and making "awkward" jokes.[195] Discussing this, Hathaway explained that she feels anxious when public speaking but has since grown from it and become a more compassionate person.[194] She said regarding her perceived image: "People have this idea of me as just being a very prim, professional girl, which I suppose I am, but I do cut loose and have fun in my life".[5]
Remarking upon her performance in Twelfth Night, Charles Isherwood wrote, "on screen or onstage Ms. Hathaway possesses the unmistakable glow of a natural star".[72] An Esquire writer wrote that many of her good performances have been overlooked, describing her career as "subtle brilliance that has largely gone unnoticed".[196] Discussing her career in 2015, Hathaway said that after her breakthrough in The Princess Diaries, she struggled to find serious roles or ones that were not about princesses. According to Judi Gugliemli of People, Hathaway used that fear of being typecast as motivation to build a versatile body of work. Gugliemli believed that her ability to extensively research her roles is the key to her success.[197] A writer for The Daily Telegraph commended her willingness to appear in different genres, ranging from action comedies to dramas.[198] Hathaway aspires to appear in many different films, work with different directors and play diverse roles.[193][197] She said she would be "lost" without acting and feels lucky to have found it as her profession.[199] A trained stage actress, she prefers performing on stage to film roles and claims to be terrified of acting on camera.[7] "I always assume that every film is my last, and I always assume that I have to go out and convince everybody why they have to hire me. I still audition," she said.[120]
Forbes reported that Hathaway was one of the world's highest-paid actresses in 2015,[200] and since 2017, she has been among the highest-grossing actresses of the 21st century.[201] In 2009, she was included on Forbes' annual
Celebrity 100 list with earnings of $7 million, and was invited to join the
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.[202][203] As of July 2018[update], her films have grossed $6.7 billion worldwide.[204] Profiled as among the world's leading actresses by Vanity Fair, Hathaway, according to Catherine Elsworth of The Daily Telegraph, is pursued both by directors and by cosmetics companies.[5] In January 2008, she joined French luxury perfumes and cosmetics house
Lancôme as the face of their fragrance "Magnifique".[205][206] In 2011, she became the new face of the Italian company
Tod's.[207]
Hathaway's beauty and sex appeal have been picked up by several media outlets; FHM, People, Maxim, Empire and Entertainment Weekly have included her on their yearly listings of sexiest women.[208] In 2011, Los Angeles Times Magazine listed her as one of the 50 Most Beautiful Women in Film.[209] Elsworth called her in 2008 "the hottest young actress in Hollywood".[5] Hathaway disagreed, insisting that she has a "good girl" image and no sex appeal.[210] She has refused to undergo treatment with
Botox, saying she is comfortable in her own skin.[211]
Activism
Hathaway has served as a long-term advocate for the Nike Foundation to raise awareness against
child marriage.[212] In July 2006, she spent a week in
Nicaragua to help vaccinate children against
hepatitis A.[213] She has also traveled to other countries to promote the rights of women and girls, including Kenya and Ethiopia.[214] In 2008, she was honored at Elle's Women in Hollywood tribute and won an award from the Human Rights Campaign for her philanthropy;[215][216] she was also honored for her work with Step Up Women's Network in 2008.[217] She then teamed up in 2010 with
World Bank in a two-year development program The Girl Effect whose mission focuses on helping empower girls in developing and developed nations where one-third of young women are not employed and not in school.[218] In 2013, she provided the narration for Girl Rising, a
CNN documentary film, which focused on the power of female education as it followed seven girls around the world who sought to overcome obstacles and follow their dreams.[212]
Hathaway serves on the board of the Lollipop Theatre Network and is involved with charities
Creative Coalition,
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and the
Human Rights Campaign.[219][220] In 2016, Hathaway was appointed
UN WomenGoodwill ambassador based on her advocacy for gender equality. The following year, she spoke on
International Women's Day in favor of paid
parental leave for both men and women.[221] To promote an increased awareness of systemic sexism in the entertainment industry, Hathaway has advocated for greater professional opportunities for women and criticized Hollywood as not being a place of equality.[222] In 2018, she collaborated with 300 women in Hollywood to set up the
Time's Up initiative to protect women from harassment and discrimination.[223]
In 2004, Hathaway began a romantic relationship with Italian real estate developer
Raffaello Follieri.[7] Follieri's
Manhattan-based foundation focused on efforts such as providing vaccinations for children in poor countries. In June 2008, it was investigated by the
IRS for failure to file required nonprofit information forms.[237] In June 2008, Follieri was arrested on charges of defrauding investors out of millions of dollars in a
scheme in which he posed as the
Vatican's real-estate agent.[238] It was reported that the
FBI confiscated Hathaway's private journals from Follieri's New York City apartment as part of their ongoing investigation into Follieri's activities. Hathaway was not charged with any crime.[239] In October 2008, after earlier pleading guilty, Follieri was sentenced to four and a half years in prison.[240]
In early 2007, Hathaway spoke of her experiences with
depression during her teens, saying that she eventually overcame the disorder without medication.[241] In 2008, she began smoking after a stressful summer and the end of her relationship with Follieri.[242] She has credited quitting smoking for the subsequent decline in her stress level and returned to being a vegetarian.[242][243] Hathaway became a
vegan in early 2012, but she quit in 2014.[244][245][246]
Hathaway married actor and businessman Adam Shulman on September 29, 2012, in
Big Sur, California, in a
traditional Jewish ceremony.[247] In 2015, she suffered a miscarriage.[248] Their first son was born in March 2016.[249] That year, Hathaway purchased an apartment worth $2.55 million on the
Upper West Side of Manhattan, where she lives with Shulman and their sons.[250] Hathaway and Shulman sold their wedding photo and donated its profits to
same-sex marriageadvocacy group
Freedom to Marry. They also hosted Freedom to Marry's National Engagement Party, an event which raised $500,000.[215] In July 2019, Hathaway announced they were expecting their second child together, and spoke publicly about her difficulty conceiving.[251] Their second son was born in November 2019.[252]
Hathaway's most acclaimed and highest-grossing films, according to the online portal
Box Office Mojo and the review aggregate site
Rotten Tomatoes, include The Princess Diaries (2001), Brokeback Mountain (2005), The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Get Smart (2008), Rachel Getting Married (2008), Valentine's Day (2010), Alice in Wonderland (2010), Love and Other Drugs (2010), The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Les Misérables (2012), Interstellar (2014), The Intern (2015), Colossal (2016), and Ocean's 8 (2018).[55][253]
Hathaway has been nominated for two Academy Awards,[67][115] three Golden Globe Awards,[65][87][116] and a British Academy Film Award.[116] She has won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, a Screen Actors Guild and a BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress for Les Misérables.[115][116] She has also won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance for her voice role in a 2010 episode of The Simpsons.[74] In November 2018, Hathaway was one of 50 nominees for the
New Jersey Hall of Fame, an organization that honors contributions to society and the world beyond.[254] In May 2019, Hathaway received a
motion pictures star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to the film industry.[255]
Explanatory notes
^Hathaway believed that if she did not perfect her accent, people would dismiss her performance in the first five minutes of the film.[58]
^Hathaway said to Scherfig, "I clearly didn't communicate to you what I needed to today. But I think these songs can do it for me"; Hathaway left Scherfig "Naughty Pines" by the
Dirty Projectors and songs from For Emma, Forever Ago by
Bon Iver. After Scherfig listened to the songs, she asked Hathaway for more of these and cast her for the role.[95]
^"Love and Other Drugs". Rotten Tomatoes. November 24, 2010.
Archived from the original on December 1, 2017. Retrieved January 1, 2018.
^Ebert, Roger (November 23, 2010).
"Love and Other Drugs". Ebert Digital LLC.
Archived from the original on October 10, 2012. Retrieved January 1, 2018.