Anne Hathaway (wife of Shakespeare) Hathaway on the day of her husband's funeral. Avril Rowland's "Mrs Shakespeare" (2005) depicts Anne as a multi-tasking "superwoman" who runs the home efficiently while also writing her husband's plays in a businesslike partnership with him as her promoter/performer. The romantic comedy film "Shakespeare in Love" provides an example of the negative view, depicting the marriage as a cold and loveless bond that Shakespeare must escape to find love in London. The same situation occurs in the alternate-history novel "Ruled Britannia" (2002), in which Shakespeare is finally granted a divorce from Hathaway to marry his new girlfriend after he helps
Anne Hathaway be "lost" without acting and feels lucky to have found it as her profession. A trained stage actress, she prefers performing on stage to film roles and claims to be terrified of acting in front of camera. "I always assume that every film is my last, and I always assume that I have to go out and convince everybody why they have to hire me. I still audition", she explains. "Forbes" reported Hathaway as one of the highest paid actresses of 2015, and since 2017. she is among the highest-grossing actresses of the 21st century. In 2009, Hathaway was included