[2][3][4] Her career began on the vaudeville circuit; and by 1908 she was an early star of Allan Dwan's American Film Manufacturing Company.
[2] After her marriage in 1894, she also went by the names Marquise Lillie de Fiennes and Jane Hathaway.
She was born as Lillie Bishop on June 15, 1876, in Budapest during the Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Hungary).
[1][5][6][4] Hathaway's career began on the vaudeville circuit and in theaters in Sacramento, California and in the San Francisco Bay Area.
[9][10] By 1909 she was an early star of Allan Dwan's American Film Manufacturing Company, starring as a heroine in films often alongside her husband Rhody and sometimes with their young son Henry Hathaway.