What American actress portrayed the early life of an English author?
Anne Hathaway on screen and stage Anne Hathaway is an American actress who has appeared in film and stage. She made her acting debut in the short lived television series "Get Real" (1999-2000). Hathaway's breakthrough role came with the role of Mia Thermopolis in the successful Disney comedy "The Princess Diaries" (2001). The role established her as a teen idol and she later reprised the role in its . This was followed by a string of family-oriented films, including "Nicholas Nickleby" (2002) and "Ella Enchanted" (2004), all of which were unsuccessful. In 2005, she voiced the lead character in the highly successful animated film "Hoodwinked!". The same year, she made transition to more mature roles with the acclaimed "Brokeback Mountain". In 2006, Hathaway starred opposite Meryl Streep in the comedy-drama "The Devil Wears Prada" and portrayed Jane Austen in the biographical drama "Becoming Jane", the following year.
Jessica Fletcher Jessica Beatrice Fletcher (born Jessica Beatrice MacGill, known as J.B. Fletcher when writing) is a character and the protagonist portrayed by Award-winning actress Angela Lansbury on the American television series "Murder, She Wrote". Fletcher is a best-selling author of mystery novels, an English teacher and congresswoman. In 2004, Fletcher was listed in Bravo's "100 Greatest TV Characters". AOL named her one of the "100 Most Memorable Female TV Characters". The same website listed her among "TV's Smartest Detectives". She was ranked at number 6 on Sleuth Channel's poll of "America's Top Sleuths". Guinness World Records called her the "most prolific amateur sleuth".