Anne Jacqueline Hathaway is an American actress. Her accolades include an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award. Her films have grossed over $6.8 billion worldwide, and she appeared on the Forbes Celebrity 100 list in 2009. She was among the world's highest-paid actresses in 2015.
Hathaway performed in several plays in high school. As a teenager, she was cast in the television series Get Real and made her breakthrough by playing the lead role in the Disney comedy The Princess Diaries. After starring in a string of family films, including Ella Enchanted, Hathaway made a transition to mature roles with the 2005 drama Brokeback Mountain. The comedy-drama The Devil Wears Prada, in which she played an assistant to a fashion magazine editor, was her biggest commercial success to that point. She played a recovering addict in the drama Rachel Getting Married, which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Hathaway had further commercial success in the comedy Get Smart, the romances Bride Wars, Valentine's Day, and Love & Other Drugs, and the fantasy film Alice in Wonderland.