Anne Hathaway

Born: Anne Whitney Hathaway,
Nov 12 , 1982,
Brooklyn, NY, USA

Raised in New Jersey

Nickname: Annie

Height: 5'8"

Father: Gerard, an attorney

Mother: Kate McCauley, stage actress

Two brothers: Michael, a writer;
Tom, an aspiring actor

Heritage: Irish and English

Education: Vassar. Transferred to New York University in 2005.

Pets: a dog named Esmerelda.

Diet: Vegetarian

An actress whose first big screen gig also proved to be her breakthrough, Anne Hathaway became a familiar face to millions of moviegoers thanks to her starring role in Garry Marshall's 2001 hit, The Princess Diaries. Cast as a clumsy high school girl who finds out she is the princess of a small country, Hathaway was able to prove her comedic timing opposite no less than Julie Andrews.

Hailing from Brooklyn, where she was born November 12, 1982, Hathaway became involved in the theater at a young age, and was the first and only teenager admitted to the acting program at the award-winning The Barrow Group in New York, a prestigious theatre company. She did her first industry work in the short-lived but critically praised TV series Get Real before auditioning for Marshall, who, according to legend, cast the actress as the accident-prone princess after she fell off a chair during her audition.