Anne Hathaway’s house made its Architectural Digest debut in 2019, and that same Southern California home is still the Les Misérables star’s primary residence. Hathaway shares it with her husband, jewelry designer Adam Shulman, and their two children—with a third on the way. However, the Oscar winner has spent quite a bit of time away for work in the past year, starring in five 2026 films (Mother Mary, The Devil Wears Prada 2, and the upcoming films The Odyssey, Verity, and The End of Oak Street). Thankfully, Shulman “holds it down” at home, Hathaway told People in April. “This year in particular was unusual. He and I both know that it’s probably never going to happen like this again. And the way he stepped up, I mean, in every possible way, he’s the most extraordinary person I’ve ever met.” The Princess Diaries star also opened up to the outlet about her cozy home routine on her rare days off: “I still get the paper delivered every day, and I love sitting down with it. And I’d cuddle with our puppy—we just got a puppy.”
Read on to learn more about Hathaway’s house, plus her real estate journey along the way.
Fifth Avenue duplex
The actor, along with her then-boyfriend, Raffaello Follieri, rented a $37,000-a-month five-bedroom duplex in Midtown Manhattan’s Olympic Tower in the mid-2000s. Built in 1976, the building was Manhattan’s first all-glass tower. With views of Central Park, the Empire State Building, and St. Paul’s Cathedral, the dwelling featured walls of glass, a movie theater, and five en suite bedrooms. Hathaway and Follieri’s stay at the 7,750-square-foot aerie came to a dramatic end around 2008, when the couple broke up and Follieri, a real estate investor, was convicted of fraud and sent to prison. Hathaway’s personal diaries were even seized by the FBI to help in their case against the entrepreneur, who was released in 2012 and deported to Italy.
Brooklyn loft
Hathaway and Shulman started dating shortly after the fiasco involving her ex-boyfriend and married in 2012. They picked up a $4.1 million apartment in Dumbo’s Clocktower Building in February 2013. Reportedly, they never moved into the 2,592-square-foot loft and Hathaway used the two-bedroom dwelling as one big dressing room. Highlights of the corner unit included a primary suite with numerous closets, a vanity nook, and a bathroom with a soaking tub; a combination library and media room; and an open-plan great room with wraparound city views. That September, the couple returned the unit to the market, asking $4.5 million. However, they de-listed it a couple of months later before trying again the following year; it officially changed hands in October 2014 for $4.33 million, according to records.
SoCal California country home
The couple made their way out west in 2014, which is reportedly when they picked up their current home in Ojai, California, for $3.6 million. Spanning 3,400 square feet, the Swiss chalet–style structure hosted four bedrooms and four bathrooms when Hathaway and Shulman bought it, also picking up an adjacent plot of land. The couple hired AD100 designer Pamela Shamshiri to renovate the dwelling, which was originally built in 1906 (it burned down and was rebuilt in 1917), pulling design references from Yves Saint Laurent, David Bowie, Wes Anderson, and even Rihanna’s 2015 Met Gala look. “The minute we came up the driveway and saw this incredible panoramic view unfold in front of us, we were hooked,” Shulman told Architectural Digest in 2019. “It was the ideal combination of romance and great design. Our initial instinct was that this was going to be a very important place in our lives. I could really see raising a family here.”
Shamshiri appointed the chalet with a dreamy music room, complete with a disco ball, a piano, and plenty of space for cozy lounging. “This room has been a long-held fantasy of ours—a place where the people we love can gather and our musician friends can play. It’s the heart of the house,” Hathaway told AD. Other highlights include a pink primary bedroom, a wood-paneled living room with exposed wooden beams and a stone fireplace, a windowed breakfast nook, and a pergola-topped terrace with an outdoor fireplace. “This is a place that balances the needs for isolation and community,” the Idea of You star said of the home. “When I have to concentrate intensely on a project, I can escape from the distractions of the outside world and find inspiration in the glorious mountains and the birds singing in the thicket. There’s music inside and out.”
Upper West Side penthouse
Two years after selling their Dumbo apartment, Hathaway and Shulman bought a new homebase in their native NYC. They paid $2.55 million for a 1,200-square-foot penthouse in a 1904-built neo-Georgian row house on Manhattan’s Upper West Side in early 2016. With two bedrooms, a private terrace, skylights, and 18-foot-tall ceilings, the co-op unit provided a sunny space to stay in the Big Apple. The couple renovated the dwelling (one of five in the historic brick structure) before putting it back on the market in February 2020 for about $3.5 million. Accessed by private elevator, the home centered around an open-plan great room with a white marble fireplace and pocket doors opening to the terrace. During their ownership, Hathaway and Shulman reconfigured the floor plan, added white oak herringbone flooring and French casement windows, and raised the ceiling height. Per records, it wasn’t until June 2021 when the chic pad finally sold for just under $3.5 million.
Connecticut Colonial
In November 2017, the Interstellar star added a piece of Connecticut real estate to her real estate portfolio. Hathaway and Shulman paid $2.8 million for the 1920s Colonial-style house, which had five bedrooms and six-bathrooms across 4,500 square feet. Located in Westport, the residence was situated on one acre with a romantic English garden, a barn, an attached guesthouse, and a saltwater swimming pool. Inside, it featured a formal dining room warmed by a stone fireplace and a primary suite with a dressing hall, a vintage-style bathroom, and private deck. When the pair sold the picturesque property just a year later for $2.7 million, it was reported that they still owned another home in the area, though details are unknown if that remains the case.
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