Anne Hathaway

Academy Award winning actress
Bio

ANNE HATHAWAY stars in Tom Hooper’s highly anticipated screen adaptation of the iconic musical Les Misérables. Hathaway plays the role of “Fantine” opposite co-stars Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, and Amanda Seyfried. Universal Pictures will release the film nationwide on Christmas Day 2012. Earlier this year, Ms. Hathaway starred as the iconic femme fatale “Catwoman” alongside Christian Bale, Marion Cotillard, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises. Nolan’s highly anticipated final chapter in the Warner Brothers’ film franchise was both a critical triumph and an enormous box office success.

In 2008, Hathaway starred in Jonathan Demme’s critically acclaimed “Rachel Getting Married” for which she was nominated for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, an Independent Spirit Award, and a SAG Award in the “Best Actress” category. The National Board of Review, the Chicago Film Critics Association, and the Broadcast Film Critics Association all named Hathaway “Best Actress” for her performance in the film.

Other recent film credits are Lone Scherfig’s One Day(based on the novel written by David Nicholls); Ed Zwick’s Love And Other Drugs (for which Anne received her second Golden Globe nomination); Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland; Garry Marshall’s Valentine’s Day; Bride Wars; Get Smart; Becoming Jane; Rodrigo Garcia’s Passengers; The Devil Wears Prada opposite Meryl Streep; and Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain. Early career credits include Garry Marshall’s The Princess Diaries and The Princess Diaries 2: The Royal Engagement; Havoc; Ella Enchanted; Nicholas Nickleby; and The Other Side Of Heaven. Hathaway first gained Hollywood’s attention for her turn in the television series “Get Real”. She has also lent her vocal talents to animated films Rio and Hoodwinked in addition to her vocal cameos on television series including “The Simpsons” for which she received an Emmy Award.

Theater credits include Shakespeare in the Park’s Twelfth Night (2009); Andrew Lloyd Webber’s workshop of Woman In White; and Forever Your Child. In 2004-2005, she also participated in the Encores Concert Gala as well as the Stephen Sondheim Birthday Gala. She also appeared in the Lincoln Center Encore series presentation of Carnival for which she won the prestigious 57th Annual Clarence Derwent Award.

As an actress, Hathaway studied at the Paper Mill Playhouse in New Jersey, the Barrow Group in New York City, and at NYU’s Collaborative Arts Projects “CAP 21” (where she focused on her musical theater training). In April 2005, the award-winning Barrow Group honored Anne for her achievements on behalf of the organization as the first and only teen ever admitted to their intensive acting program.

Anne serves on the advisory board for Lollipop Theater Network, which is an organization that screens movies in hospitals for pediatric patients suffering from chronic or life-threatening illness. She also recently began working with The Nike Foundation’s “Girl Effect”.

Hathaway currently resides in both Los Angeles and New York.