Culture | Film It’s only when you’re made to pick your favourite Anne Hathaway films that you realise the sheer enormity of the actor’s body of work. There are the early fan-favourites such as The Princess Diaries (2001) and Ella Enchanted (2004). There are her Oscar-nominated and winning roles in Rachel Getting Married (2008) and Les Misérables (2012) which demonstrated her evolution as an actor.
There are her thrilling turns in Christopher Nolan’s major blockbusters The Dark Knight Rises (2012) and Interstellar (2014). Comedy hits such as Get Smart (2008) and Ocean’s 8 (2018). And those performances which could only be described as Anne having an absolute blast: Alice in Wonderland ? The Witches ? Why not.
Since her breakout role in The Princess Diaries, Hathaway, now 41, has starred in over 40 films – dozens of which have been excellent. With the news that a Devil Wears Prada sequel is now in the works, here’s our pick of the best, and worst, of the bunch. It was Anne Hathaway ’s first film and the film that made her a star.
A coming-of-age story about a dorky, frizzy-haired teenager who finds out she’s a real-life Princess (of the made up European land Genovia) and makes a physical transformation in order to fit into the new role, guided by her glamorous granny, Queen Clarisse Renaldi (Julie Andrews). Obviously the moral – geeky and messy, bad; pretty and put together, good – isn’t exactly rousing. But Andrews is delightful as the formidable matr.