Anne Hathaway - Oscar Awards 2011

Anne Jacqueline Hathaway  is an American actress. After several stage roles, she appeared in the 1999 television series Get Real. Actors James Franco and Anne Hathaway will be co-hosting the ceremony for their first time. She played Mia Thermopolis in The Princess Diaries.

Over the next three years, Hathaway reprised that role for The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement, and starred in family films, appearing as the title character in Ella Enchanted, both in 2004.

People magazine named her one of its breakthrough stars of 2001,and she first appeared on its list of the world's 50 Most Beautiful People in 2006.Anne Hathaway was born in Brooklyn, New York.Her father, Gerald Thomas Hathaway, is a lawyer, and her mother, Kathleen Ann (née McCauley), is an actress. Hathaway's first role in a motion picture was as Jean Sabin in The Other Side of Heaven, opposite Christopher Gorham.

On January 5, 2010, it was reported that Spider-Man 4 would be rewritten and Hathaway would not appear in the film, as she was "too expensive". On November 29, 2010, it was announced that Hathaway and James Franco would host the 83rd Academy Awards.