Anne Hathaway is a Golden Globe and Oscar-winning actress, best known for starring in films like The Princess Diaries (2001), Alice in Wonderland (2010), The Dark Knight Rises (2012) and Les Misérables (2012).
Hathaway was one of the highest paid actresses in Hollywood in 2015, she is an outspoken advocate for same-sex marriage and gender equality. The actress is also a United Nations Ambassador for Women of Goodwill and has received multiple awards for her humanitarian work around the world.
Who is Anne Hathaway?
Hathaway was born Anne Jacqueline Hathaway, the second of three children of Kate (née McCauley) and Gerald Hathaway on November 12, 1982 in Brooklyn, New York. Her father is a labor attorney while her mother is a former actress. She is of Irish, French, English and German descent and grew up in a Roman Catholic household.
Anne Hathaway grew up in Millburn, New Jersey after her family moved there when she was six. She began her elementary education in New York at Brooklyn Heights Montessori School before later transferring to Wyoming Elementary School in Millburn. Anne was exposed to acting from a young age through her mother, but was not allowed to pursue it as a career choice. This did not prevent her from actively participating in school plays at Millburn High School.
After high school, Hathaway enrolled at VassarCollege to study English. She later transferred to New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study, where she had hoped to become either a psychologist or an English teacher if she hadn’t become an actress.
Her son and her husband, is Anne married?
Anne Hathaway is married to businessman and part-time actor Adam Shulman. The pair were introduced by a mutual friend at the Palms Springs Film Festival in 2008, a few months after Hathaway broke ties with her former partner Raffaello Follieri, who had been convicted of high wire fraud.
Hathaway shared with Harper’s Bazaar magazine that it was love at first sight as their connection was undeniable. She said she told their mutual friend that she was going to marry Shulman. The two subsequently kept things loose between themselves for about six weeks before Hathaway took matters into his own hands to ask him out on their first date, which was a trip to New Orleans, Louisiana.
The duo later got engaged in November 2011 and a year later, on September 29, 2012, they exchanged vows in front of more than 100 guests at an outdoor Jewish ceremony in the Big Sur region of California. On March 24, 2016, the couple welcomed their first child, a son named Jonathan Rosebanks Shulman.
Adam Shulman was born on April 2, 1981, in New York. He is a businessman engaged in jewelry. Adam is co-founder and co-owner of jewelry store James Banks Design and designer Heidi Nahser Fink. Before he ventured into the jewelry business, however, Shulman tried his hand at acting.
He attended a summer acting program at New York’s Tisch School of Arts at the university, as well as a few other theaters, before enrolling at Brown University, where he received his degree in drama in 2003. He then played a few supporting roles in series and films such as American Dreams (2005) and The Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning (2007).
As you may have noticed, Adam Shulman shares a resemblance with portraits of the 16th-century playwright William Shakespeare. Coincidentally and somewhat creepily, their wives share the same name – Anne Hathaway, which has led to conspiracy theories about Shulman being reincarnated and a vampire. Make what you want out of it.
Height, body measurements and other facts
Birth name: Anne Jacqueline Hathaway
Date of Birth: November 12, 1982
Place of birth: Brooklyn, New York
Profession(s): Actress, Singer
Height: 5 feet 8 inches (173 cm)
Weight: 56kg
Body Type: Slim
Body measurements: 86-63.5-89 cm (34-25-35 inches)
Hair Color: Dark Brown
Eye color: hazel
Zodiac sign: Scorpio