LOS ANGELES: Hollywood actress Anne Hathaway certainly has lady fortune smiling down at her.

The 26-year-old has landed a role in Tim Burton’s movie adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland”, which will be shot using live-action and CGI ala “Beowulf”.

She will play the White Queen, a benevolent monarch banished by her sister, the Red Queen.

Hathaway joins the stellar cast of Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter, who play the Mad Hatter and the Red Queen respectively. Little-known Australian actress Mia Wasikowska plays Alice.

Shooting for the film begins this fall, and it is scheduled for a 2010 release.

The starlet who shot to fame with “The Princess Diaries” recently made headlines when her ex-boyfriend Raffaello Follieri was arrested for fraud and money laundering. Hathaway escaped the scandal untainted, and is still very much Hollywood’s red-hot starlet.

Her recent performance in “Rachel Getting Married” has generated pre-Oscar buzz, and her appearance on “Saturday Night Live” has also garnered positive reviews.

Hathaway, whose film credits include “The Devil Wears Prada”, “Brokeback Mountain” and “Get Smart”, will next be seen in horror thriller, “Passengers”.