Actress Anne Hathaway was born in Brooklyn, New York, on November 12, 1982. As a youngster, she was accepted into The Barrow Group Theater Company. The year 1999 brought her first big break on the short-lived television series Get Real.
Shortly after the series ended, Hathaway took landed the role that made her famous, playing Mia Thermopolis in The Princess Diaries. That same year, she played the title character in Ella Enchanted, a twist on the Cinderella story. The film received mostly positive reviews, with critic Roger Ebert describing her as “beautiful” and “luminous.”
In 2006, playing a character in the film The Devil Wears Prada brought her huge success. In 2007, she starred in Becoming Jane, a film about Jane Austen. Hathaway then garnered both critical and commercial attention for her role in 2010’s Love and Other Drugs, due in no small part to her nude scenes in the film, and went on to win acclaim or later film appearances, including those in The Dark Knight Rises and Les Miserables (both released in 2012).
