“Call me Annie. Everyone, everyone, call me Annie. Please,” she said during a video appearance on the show on Tuesday.
“When I was 14 I did a commercial and I had to get my SAG (Screen Actors Guild) card and they asked me ‘what do you want your name to be?’
“And I’m like, well, it should be my name – my name is Anne Hathaway … and that seemed like the right choice, but it never occurred to me that for the rest of my life people would call me Anne,” she said Fallon on interview.
“The only person who calls me Anne is my mom, and she only does that when she’s really mad at me. Like, really mad.
“And then, every time I go out in public and someone calls my name, I think they are going to yell at me,” she joked. “Call me anything but Anne.”
“Locked Down”, which she starred with Chiwetel Ejiofor, tells the story of a couple tested by quarantine restrictions and includes a theft plot with appearances by Ben Stiller, Ben Kingsley and Dule Hill.
Hathaway, who is 38 and has a 4-year-old son with her husband Adam Shulman, also talked to Fallon about caring for her children during confinement.
“It’s been a lot,” she said, “but this is a good age to be at home with your kids because our 4-year-old son believes everything we tell him – and that’s adorable and also very useful – and our 1 – years old … it’s just the most magical age. “
Hathaway had previously shared his support for women struggling with infertility.
“Sending you extra love.”
Brian Lowry and Kendall Trammell of CNN contributed to this report.