Trivia

Is good friends with Les Misérables (2012) co-star Hugh Jackman. In fact, he suggested Anne for the role of Fantine which later she won every major award for and thanked him in her speeches.

(January 8, 2014) 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.

She befriended Emily Blunt on the set of The Devil Wears Prada (2006). They are fast friends now, Emily calls Anne 'her rock'.

Had done most of her own singing in Les Misérables (2012).

Was not available for role of Christine Daae in The Phantom of the Opera (2004) due to contractual obligation to Disney for The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004). The two movies had overlapping filming schedules.

Has the same name as William Shakespeare's wife, Anne Hathaway. She was named after her (her name was almost going to be Catherine Hathaway).

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.

Has an older brother, Michael Hathaway, who is a writer and a younger brother, Tom Hathaway, who is an aspiring actor.

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.

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.

In July 2006, she spent a week in Nicaragua helping vaccinate kids there against Hepatitis A. She called the experience "..an eye opener" for her.

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".

Was 5 months pregnant with her son Jack when she completed filming on The Witches (2020).

Suffered from depression when she was a teenager.

First and only teenager admitted to the acting program at the award-winning The Barrow Group in New York. Three days before being cast in Get Real (1999), she performed in two concerts at Carnegie Hall as member of All-Eastern U.S. High School Honors Chorus.

Was very reluctant to take on the role of Jane Austen in Becoming Jane (2007) as she didn't think she would be suited for the role but Ang Lee, who was directing Anne in Brokeback Mountain (2005) (and who also directed Sense and Sensibility (1995)) persuaded her to take on the role.

(September 29, 2012) Married boyfriend of three years Adam Shulman in a Christian (her faith)/Jewish (his) midnight ceremony, wearing a gown designed by Valentino, before 100 guests in Big Sur, California following a 10 month-long engagement.

Favorite movies are Stand by Me (1986), Pretty Woman (1990), Elizabeth (1998), Amélie (2001) and City of God (2002).

Has stated that she would only appear nude/topless in a film if she felt it would add significance to it. She appeared topless for the first time in Havoc (2005) and then in the same year in Brokeback Mountain (2005).

In his column "Just for Variety" published on October 25, 2000 in Daily Variety, columnist Army Archerd quotes Garry Marshall, the director of The Princess Diaries (2001): "The multi-talented Hathaway is a combination Julia Roberts, Audrey Hepburn and Judy Garland.".

Is a huge fan of Judy Garland, Audrey Hepburn and Meryl Streep.

Is one of 8 actresses who have won an Academy Award for their performance in a musical. The others in chronological order are Rita Moreno, Julie Andrews, Barbra Streisand, Liza Minnelli, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Jennifer Hudson and Emma Stone.

Friends with Jake Gyllenhaal, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bradley Cooper.

Johnny Depp is one of her favorite actors. She worked with him on Alice in Wonderland (2010) and Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016).

Was almost cast as Johanna in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), but Tim Burton wanted an unknown actress for the role, and newcomer Jayne Wisener got the role.

Greatly admires Ryan Gosling and Bryce Dallas Howard.

Goes by the name Annie with most of her friends.

Good friends with Sienna Miller, Emily Blunt and Heather Matarazzo.

Favorite actors are Joaquin Phoenix and Ralph Fiennes.

Mother, with husband Adam Shulman, of two sons Jonathan Rosebanks Shulman (born March 24, 2016) and Jack Shulman (born November 2019).

Learning how to play the piano and working with a dialect coach for Becoming Jane (2007).

Attended and graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts (AADA) in Los Angeles, California (1993).

Named Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year at Harvard University.

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).

Was majoring in English and minoring in Women's Studies at Vassar College. Transferred to New York University (2005).

Announced her engagement to Adam Shulman, having been in a relationship with him since November 2008 [November 28, 2011].

Was 5 months pregnant with her son Jonathan when she completed filming Colossal (2016).

Beat out Sienna Miller for the role of Lureen Twist in the movie Brokeback Mountain (2005).

Her father has Irish, English, French and German ancestry. Her mother is of Irish descent.

Was the 140th actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Les Misérables (2012) at The Oscars (2013) on February 24, 2013.

Attended and graduated from Millburn High School in Millburn, New Jersey with the highest honors. (June 2000)

Childhood celebrity crush was Leonardo DiCaprio.

Is one of 13 actresses to have won the Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Critics' Choice Award, Golden Globe Award and SAG Award for the same performance. The others in chronological order are Julia Roberts for Erin Brockovich (2000), Renée Zellweger for Cold Mountain (2003), Reese Witherspoon for Walk the Line (2005), Helen Mirren for The Queen (2006), Jennifer Hudson for Dreamgirls (2006), Kate Winslet for The Reader (2008), Mo'Nique for Precious (2009), Natalie Portman for Black Swan (2010), Octavia Spencer for The Help (2011), Cate Blanchett for Blue Jasmine (2013), Patricia Arquette for Boyhood (2014) and Julianne Moore for Still Alice (2014).

Her father, Gerald T. Hathaway, is an attorney and her mother, Kate McCauley Hathaway, is a singer and actress.

She was inducted into the 2019-2020 Class of New Jersey Hall of Fame in the Arts and Entertainment category.

Prefers to be called Annie, stating that only her mother calls her Anne when she's really angry at her and that it's jarring when fans call her that.

She is in the "Most Beautiful People" list compiled by People magazine, has been ranked in 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010.

She is an honoree of women's empowerment organization the Step Up Women's Network and is also an advisor for the Lollipop Theater Network, that screens movies in hospitals for the terminally ill.

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.

Has a dog (chocolate Labrador) named Esmerelda, born July 2004.