Anne Hathaway’s Hollywood Comeback Is for the Books, so Let’s Honor Her Request That We Call Her Annie

Anne Hathaway has one simple request for fans: please stop calling her “Anne” and start calling her “Annie” instead.

She made the plea during her 2021 appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, and the clip is making the rounds again as the actress hits a new peak in her Hollywood comeback. The Devil Wears Prada 2 hits theaters on May 1, 2026, and she has several other major 2026 releases on the way including a Christopher Nolan project.

Here is why it bothers her. At 14 years old, she got her SAG card after booking a commercial and used her real full name, “Anne Hathaway,” because it seemed like the obvious choice. “It never occurred to me that for the rest of my life people would call me Anne,” she told Fallon.

The real trigger is her mom. “The only person who calls me Anne is my mother and she only does it when she’s really mad at me,” Hathaway explained. “So every time I step out in public and someone calls my name, I think they’re going to yell at me. People are like, ‘Anne!’ And I’m like, ‘What? What did I do?’ It doesn’t fit. I’m an Annie.”

She wrapped it up with a laugh. “Call me Annie, everybody, everybody, call me Annie, please! Anything but Anne.”

She is also totally fine with Miss H, Hath, or whatever else you want to throw at her.

She is not the only actress who has course-corrected her stage name. Emma Stone’s real name is actually Emily Jean Stone. She went with “Emma” because another Emily Stone had already taken the SAG name, and because she was obsessed with Baby Spice (Emma Bunton) from the Spice Girls as a kid.