Anne Whitney Hathaway (born November 12, 1982, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American film actress. She has Irish ancestry on her father's side.

Hathaway has performed inside television series, and gained far flung recognition sustaining her role in The Princess Diaries and its 2004 sequel in which she starred by owning Julie Andrews, as a young girl world health organization discovers she occurs as member of royalty.

She as well experienced the notable role in the 2002 film production of Nicholas Nickleby, and the stellar role inside 2004's Ella Enchanted.

The previous top-ranking soprano in New York, Anne was purportedly the front-favorite for the role of "Christine" in the 2004 film adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera. But, referable programing conflicts by having The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement she couldn't take a role, which was late given to newcomer Emmy Rossum. Besides tackling these acting projects, she besides spent many semesters researching at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York before transferring to New York University.

Caring all about existence typecast as a "Disney princess", Hathaway has began to move out of personal-friendly films into grittier productions. One of these is the film Havoc, which was the subject of tremendously Internet-based rumour because of reports of its intimate content. A film, which was non freed to theaters inside North America but will come out in DVD on November 29 2005 and has played at many film festivals, includes several au naturel scenes by Hathaway likewise as a few moderately expressed love scenes, though virtually all activity requires place off screen. Hathaway has downplayed these scenes around many recent interviews.

Hathaway besides filmed the supporting role around Brokeback Mountain, a Western film with gay overtones. Hathaway's want to break away from her Princess Diaries image parallels that of her co-star, Julie Andrews, who went to the (so) extreme length of running bare-breasted in the film S.O.B. in order to break away from the image she created for herself in her 1960s musicals.

Filmography

Becoming Jane (2006) The Devil Wears Prada (2005) Brokeback Mountain (2005) Havoc (2004) The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004) Ella Enchanted (2004) Nicholas Nickleby (2002) The Cat Returns (2002) The Other Side of Heaven (2001) The Princess Diaries (2001) Get Real (1999) (TV series)