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While Anne is an accomplished actress and singer, her most impressive skill is her ability to be liked by women while still being a sex symbol for men. This extraordinary gift is primarily due to her ability to seamlessly shift between slutty and classy.

Notice how Classy Anne actually shows more cleavage than Slutty Anne? Impressive.

Her career has straddled similar opposites. Anne represented every awkward girl’s fantasy in The Princess Diaries, then landed the prince in Ella Enchanted, endearing her to a generation of girls. While this was great for a teenaged Anne Hathaway, along came 2005 when Anne developed glorious ambitions to prove that she was more than a child-actress. She needed some adult themed roles to expand her career.

Ignoring the warnings of her Princess Diaries co-star Julie Andrews1, Anne took roles as the often nude spoiled rich girl in the direct-to-DVD disaster Havoc, and the sometimes nude wife to a gay cowboy in Brokeback Mountain. One was a huge success, one was… not. Both showed a newer, grown-up image to her fans, while introducing their fathers to the awkward phenomenon of the "didn’t I just take my daughter to see this girl play a princess?" boner.

Nowadays Anne’s appeal stretches to men and women, kids and adults, and she has parlayed this wide appeal into other big roles (Devil Wears Prada, Becoming Jane, Get Smart, Bride Wars).