STACK #132 Oct 2016

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survivors in the little-seen supernatural thriller Passengers (2008) before starring as Kate Hudson's BFF in the awful BrideWars (2009), a film she describes as "hideously commercial – gloriously so". Hathaway joined the ensemble cast of shamelessly tailormade "date movie" Valentine's Day (2010) and returned to the House of Mouse in 2010 as the White Queen in Tim Burton's lurid Alice inWonderland . She will also appear in the upcoming (and Burton-free) sequel Alice Through the Looking Glass , which has just wrapped for release in 2016. The raunchy Love & Other Drugs (2010) reunited her with Jake Gyllenhaal, as a Hathaway was ecstatic to land the role of Selina Kyle, aka Catwoman, in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises (2012) – after believing she would be auditioning for Harley Quinn – and received praise from US President Barack Obama, no less, who considered her “the best thing” about the film. She would team up again with Nolan for Interstellar in 2014. The plum role of Fantine in Les Misérables (2012) had special significance for the actress, having been played by her mother on the stage. Recommended for the part by co-star Hugh Jackman, Hathaway managed to bury memories of Susan Boyle with her emotional rendition of "I Dreamed a Dream", and her 100 per cent commitment to a tough role was duly rewarded with an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress the following year. It's been almost a decade since Hathaway was memorably menaced by Meryl in The Devil Wears Prada , but that hasn't stopped her from returning to the world of fashion with another Oscar-winning Hollywood icon at her side in The Intern (2015). As the founder and CEO of an online company who reluctantly takes on a senior intern in the form of Robert De Niro, Hathaway finds herself bridging the generation gap in this sweet comedy from writer-director Nancy Meyers. Parkinson's sufferer who falls for his drug company rep, and indie flick One Day (2011) paired her with Brit Jim Sturgess in a relationship that's revisited on the same day every year.

ANNE HATHAWAY From Disney Princess to Catwoman.

B rooklyn-born Anne Jacqueline Hathaway has been favourably compared to Judy Garland and Audrey Hepburn. With her doe eyes and prim demeanour, Hathaway was a perfect fit for Disney films and period dramas, and since her film debut in The Princess Diaries in 2001, she has matured into an appealing and versatile star. Her Disney audience has effectively grown up with her. Having started out in school productions and stage plays, Hathaway progressed to television in 1999 as a member of the dysfunctional Green family in Get Real , alongside Jesse Eisenberg. Her feature debut in Disney's The Princess Diaries (2001) immediately launched her as a Hollywood star. Playing a shy schoolgirl who discovers she's royalty, Hathaway shared the screen with the legendary Julie Andrews and her luminous presence became an inspiration to teenage girls everywhere. Consequently, she found herself pigeonholed in similar fare like the faith-based The Other Side of Heaven (2001), Ella Enchanted (2004), and sequel The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004). Hathaway has described her teen princess phase as something of a "brick wall" in terms of career advancement, so it was no surprise that her nude scenes in Havoc (2005) were perceived as an attempt to escape family film typecasting, despite her insistence that they were simply part of the job. "Anybody who was a role model for children needs a reprieve," she said. "Films are letting me get older, which is really nice, because there was always this fear of what happens when

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I stop being a teenager. But for everyone else, it was kind of a sharp left." Brokeback Mountain (2005) had a profound impact on Hathaway's subsequent career path; cast as Lurleen Newsome, the wife of Jake Gyllenhaal's sexually confused Jack, she had finally discovered the kind of film she wanted to make. "I'm more proud of that film than anything I have created," she has said. The Princess Diaries was Hathaway's big break, but it was The DevilWears Prada (2006) – in which she played the assistant to Meryl Streep's monstrous fashion mag editor – that relaunched her as an adult star and onto the Hollywood A-list, After playing Jane Austen in the biopic Becoming Jane (2007), she revealed a flair for comedy as Agent 99 in Get Smart (2008), opposite Steve Carell, and followed that with one of her best dramatic performances to date: as a recovering drug addict in Jonathan Demme's Rachel Getting Married (2008). She appeared as a counsellor to air crash

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