ACTOR · BORN 1982
Anne Hathaway
- Born
- 12 November 1982, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
- Known for
- Interstellar (2014), The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Brokeback Mountain (2005), Bride Wars (2009)
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Anne Hathaway (born 12 November 1982) is an actor best known for Interstellar, The Dark Knight Rises and Brokeback Mountain.
Anne Hathaway over the years
50 Interesting Facts About Anne Hathaway
Interesting Facts (3)
Production Story (10)
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Auditioned for the role of Angelique Bouchard in Dark Shadows (2012), which later went to Eva Green.
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Everyone knows that The Princess Diaries (2001) was her breakthrough role, but it is a little known fact that she auditioned for that part on her way to New Zealand to co-star in another film with Christopher Gorham. She reported to others on the set that she felt really good about the audition. Filmmakers knew that she would be a big star, so the film in question, The Other Side of Heaven (2001), was delayed in post production and released after The Princess Diaries (2001) in order to capitalize on her stardom.
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Turned down the role of Tiffany in Silver Linings Playbook (2012) due to creative differences with director David O. Russell. The role went to Jennifer Lawrence who won an Oscar for her performance. Hathaway also went on to win an Oscar the same year as Lawrence, for Best Supporting Actress in Les Misérables (2012).
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Behind the Scenes (2)
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For the movie The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Hathaway was told to gain 10 pounds (bringing her weight to 130) only to be told afterward that she would have to lose 10 pounds and they would pad her for the "fat scenes". After production, Hathaway was presented with the padding which she jokingly refers to as "Andy's ass".
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Characters & Cast (4)
Easter Eggs & References (1)
Career & Awards (14)
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In 1998, she was nominated for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role at the Paper Mill Playhouse "Rising Star Awards", an award given to high schools across New Jersey. Ironically, she was nominated for playing the Princess in "Once Upon a Mattress". To further the irony, she lost to a girl who was played the exact same role. The nomination ballot listed her as Annie Hathaway.
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Anne was first bitten by the acting bug at the age of six when she watched her mother perform the role of Fantine in a stage production of "Les Miserables". Twenty-five years later, Anne would perform the role of Fantine in Tom Hooper's movie version of Les Misérables (2012), for which she won an astounding thirty-five awards worldwide and was nominated for another seventeen.
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Life & Family (16)
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She grew up in New Jersey, but loves being a Manhattanite for most of last seven years now, as demonstrated by her 2013 Oscar-night comments. On the red carpet she boasted wearing a Tiffany necklace as "a New York girl" should. And in her acceptance speech she thanked "my friends, especially the ones who are cheering from Crosby Street tonight," which is right near her very downtown Lower East Side apartment in the converted Avalon Bowery building.
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Almost drowned when she nearly swept out to sea while vacationing in Oahu, Hawaii. She got caught up in a riptide, and while her husband, Adam Shulman, lay out of earshot on the beach, a fast-acting surfer came to her rescue. According the New York Post's Page Six, she began waving her arms and screaming as the waves engulfed her, catching the attention of the local man who ran down the beach to her aid with a boogie board.
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Was five months pregnant with her son Jack when she completed filming The Witches (2020). Returned to work 10 months after giving birth to Jack to begin filming Locked Down (2021).
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Left Raffaello Follieri days before he was arrested for wire fraud and money laundering. Follieri pled guilty in September 2008 to misappropriating $50 million in a Ponzi scheme involving properties owned by the Catholic Church, and may have defrauded investors, including Ron Burkle, of as much as $100 million. During its investigation of the case, the FBI seized Hathaway's diaries.
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She grew up in New Jersey, but loves being a Manhattanite for most of last seven years now, as demonstrated by her 2013 Oscar-night comments. On the red carpet she boasted wearing a Tiffany necklace as "a New York girl" should. And in her acceptance speech she thanked "my friends, especially the ones who are cheering from Crosby Street tonight," which is right near her very downtown Lower East Side apartment in the converted Avalon Bowery building.
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