5. Anne Hathaway - Rachel Getting Married
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tIvMUy8UDs Anne Hathaway became known to kids and young teens the world over by starring in the two The Princess Diaries films, though made it clear with the likes of Havoc and Brokeback Mountain that she promptly wanted to shed that image and move towards "worthier" fare. She truly broke out of the mould - and without getting her kit off, this time - by starring in Rachel Getting Married, playing a recovering drug addict returning home for her sister's wedding. Hathaway ended up with a Best Actress Oscar nomination, well and truly proving herself as an actress to be taken seriously; so successful was she that she managed to escape the teeny bopper roles completely and with relative ease. Hathaway continued to build on this with her impressive turn - not to mention gratuitous nudity - in Love and Other Drugs, before eventually winning an Oscar for her recently acclaimed performance as Fantine in Les Miserables.
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