Anne Hathaway (actress)

Hathaway's desire to break out of her Princess Diaries image parallels that of her co-star, Julie Andrews, who went to the (then) extreme length of going topless in the film S.O.B. in order to break away from the image she created for herself in her 1960s musicals.
. More recently, Hathaway filmed a supporting role in Brokeback Mountain, a Western film with gay overtones. David Kelly. Hathaway downplays the film's explicitness in a late 2004 interview for Ingenue magazine. As a high profile Backbencher she has become a regular critic of Blair over his plans to introduce top-up fees, she also called for him to resign following the Judicial Enquiry by Lord Hutton in 2003 surrounding the reasons for going to war in Iraq and the death of government adviser Dr. According to early reviews, Hathaway and most of the rest of the cast appear nude and engage in simulated sex in several segments of the raunchy film, although it remains to be seen whether these elements of the film will remain intact for general release. She served for a while as a junior minister in the British government, responsible for London Transport, then resigned to make a failed attempt to win the Labour nomination for the post of Mayor of London after Tony Blair's controversial attempts to impose his favoured candidate, Frank Dobson on the part.

As of 2004, Hathaway has been trying hard to shed her sugar-coated image, and this may be a fait accompli with the soon to be released Havoc. Having accumulated a second Oscar for her role in A Touch of Class (1973), she also portrayed Queen Elizabeth on a film about the life of Mary, Queen of Scots and been recognised as one of Britain's leading actresses, she abandoned her acting career in 1992 in order to become a Labour MP, representing the Hampstead and Highgate constituency. Anne, several years older then Rossum, was reportedly "too old" for the part. She confirmed this by having her head shaved in order to play Queen Elizabeth I of England in the BBC's 1971 blockbuster serial, Elizabeth R. A former top-ranking soprano in New York, Anne was puportedly a front-runner for the role of "Christine Daae" in the 2004 film adaptatin of The Phantom of the Opera. However, the role was later given to new-comer Emmy Rossum. Fame came with Jackson's starring role in the controversial Women in Love (1969) gaining her first Oscar, and another controversial role as Tchaikovsky's nymphomaniac wife in Ken Russell's The Music Lovers added to her image of being prepared to do almost anything for her art. She also had a notable role in the 2002 film production of Nicholas Nickleby, and a starring role in 2004's Ella Enchanted. Having studied acting at RADA, Jackson made her professional stage debut in Rattigan's Separate Tables in 1957 and her film debut in This Sporting Life in 1963.

Hathaway has performed in television series, and gained widespread recognition with her role in The Princess Diaries and its 2004 sequel in which she starred with Julie Andrews, as a young girl who discovers she is a member of royalty. She was born at Birkenhead near Liverpool, into a working-class family, and it is a well-known piece of trivia that she once worked in Boots the Chemist. Anne Hathaway (born November 12, 1982), in Brooklyn, New York is an American film actress. Glenda Jackson (born May 9, 1936) is a British Oscar-winning actress and politician, currently Labour Member of Parliament for the constituency of Hampstead & Highgate in the London Borough of Camden. The Princess Diaries (2001). The Other Side of Heaven (2001).

Nicholas Nickleby (2002). Ella Enchanted (2004). The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004). Havoc (2004) (post-production).

Brokeback Mountain (2005) (filming).