 |  | | Full Name: | Anne Jacqueline Hathaway | | | Birthday: | 11/12/1982 | | | Sign: | Scorpio | | | Eye Color: | Brown Height: 5' 8" | | | Hometown: | Brooklyn, New York | | | | | Relationship Status: | Anne is dating Raffaello Follieri, a real estate developer from Italy. Follieri runs a charity, the Follieri Foundation, to provide medical assistance to children in poor countries. Ann has accompanied him on several trips to places such as Africa and Nicaragua, where she helped vaccinate 1,000 children against Hepatitis A. | | | Big Break: | Anne fell off a chair when auditioning for a role in “The Princess Diaries.” Since the character she was to play was a klutz, the casting director decided to hire Anne then and there. | | | Best Known For: | Anne is one of the most popular young American actresses of our time. Her first major film success was “The Princess Diaries” (2001), in which Anne starred as an awkward young woman who suddenly discovers she is princess of Genovia. She can’t make up her mind whether she wants to accept the responsibilities involved or stay in high school. Her grandmother (Julie Andrews) feels the need to give her “princess lessons” while she decides what to do. This movie reached #3 at the box office and was followed by a sequel in 2004. More recently, Anne co-starred in the Academy Award-winning movie “Brokeback Mountain” (2005), and in “The Devil Wears Prada” (2006), opposite Meryl Streep. | | | Cool Facts: | Anen is named after the wife of William Shakespeare.
In 1998, Anne was nominated for “Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role” at the “Rising Star Awards,” a statewide talent competition in New Jersey. She played a princess in a play called “Once Upon a Mattress,” but lost to another girl who played the same part! | | | Quick Bio: | Anne is the daughter of Gerard Hathaway, a New York lawyer and Kate McCauley, an actress. Anne was very religious as a young girl, and gave some thought to becoming a nun. She decided against doing this when she realized at age 15 that the Catholic Church would not accept her older brother’s gay lifestyle: “I can’t support a religion that doesn’t support my brother.” Anne grew up in New Jersey, where she attended Millburn High School. She was the first teenager ever accepted to become a member of The Barrow Group theater company, a great training ground for an ambitious actress. Anne is a soprano, and performed twice with an honors chorus at Carnegie Hall in 1998. Three days after her second performance, she was hired for the television series “Get Real,” a situation comedy where she played a brilliant student with a rebellious side. After graduation from High School, Anne was accepted at the prestigious Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, where she majored in English literature and Women’s Studies. Anne transferred to New York University in 2005, but the demands on her time since her success in “The Princess Diaries” are making it difficult for her to complete her degree. Anne’s next film is “Becoming Jane,” set for release in 2007, in which she plays a young Jane Austen. | | | |
