Anne Heche
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Anne Celeste Heche is an American actress, director
, and screenwriter
. She started her career on the daytime soap opera Another World
, for which she won a Daytime Emmy Award
in 1991. Heche gradually landed supporting roles in feature films, and in 1997 appeared in I Know What You Did Last Summer
, Wag the Dog
, Donnie Brasco
and Volcano. Her first leading role in a major Hollywood film was Six Days, Seven Nights (1998)—which has remained her highest-profile film role to date. Following a supporting role in the film John Q. (2002), she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award
for her performance in the TV movie Gracie's Choice
(2004), and starred in the 2006–2008 TV series Men in Trees
. Her most recent film roles include Spread
(2009), The Other Guys
(2010), and Cedar Rapids
(2011); she currently appears in the HBO cable TV series Hung
.
As Heche was beginning to establish herself in films during the late 1990s, her career was compromised by her same-sex relationship with Ellen Degeneres
. In 2001, a year after her break-up with DeGeneres, Heches married cameraman Coleman Laffoon, with whom she had a son. Since their separation in 2007 (they divorced in 2009), she has lived with actor James Tupper
, with whom she also has a son.
, church founder, Baptist
minister, and choir director. In her book, Call Me Crazy, she claimed that her father molested
her during her childhood, giving her herpes simplex
. Her father later disclosed his homosexuality to his family before dying of AIDS in 1983. In that same year, Heche's older brother Nate, who was also an actor, was killed in a car accident just a few months before his graduation from high school. Heche was a noted actress at the progressive Francis W. Parker School
, in Chicago, and the Bunche Park soap opera. As the World Turns
offered her a contract in 1985, when she was 16. However, both she and her mother felt it best that she finish high school first.
. For that work, Heche earned the Daytime Emmy award for "Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series" and won a Soap Opera Digest Awards
. Heche taped her final episode of Another World in 1991 and the following year made her TV film debut alongside Jessica Lange
in the Golden Globe-nominated adaptation of Willa Cather
’s O Pioneers. She made her feature debut as Mary Jane Wilks in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1993) and gradually landed larger roles in I'll Do Anything
(1994) and TV movies Against the Wall (1994) and Kingfish: A Story of Huey Long
(1995), playing Huey Long
's mistress.
Her breakthrough role was that of a friend of Demi Moore
's character, who falls victim to a hit man in the thriller The Juror
(1996). She appeared alongside Jada Pinkett Smith
and Cher
in the controversial abortion drama If These Walls Could Talk
(1996). She went on to appear in the acclaimed indie Walking and Talking
(1996). She was praised for her performance by critic Alison Macor of Austin Chronicle
who said in her review that "While Heche may be best known for her role on the daytime soap Another World, her acting in Walking and Talking suggests that she, too, is destined for larger film roles". She had a significant role opposite Johnny Depp
in Donnie Brasco
(1997), as the wife of an FBI agent whose intensely guarded job as a mafia
infiltrator threatens to destroy his own life and family. She got positive reviews for her role from critics such as Janet Mislin of New York Times who said Heche "does well with what could have been the thankless role of Joe Pistone's wife, who is left to mind three children and shovel snow for months at a time while Joe is busy being Donnie Brasco".
Heche teamed with Tommy Lee Jones
in the disaster flick Volcano (1997) and continued her rise with a well-reviewed turn as a presidential advisor in the political satire
Wag the Dog
(1997). She appeared in the horror film
I Know What You Did Last Summer
(1997) and starred opposite Harrison Ford
in the romantic adventure Six Days, Seven Nights (1998). In 1998, she co-starred as Marion Crane
opposite Vince Vaughn
in the remake of Psycho
. The film got mixed reviews from media and some critics including Edward Guthmann of San Francisco Chronicle
stated "Heche is so good, in fact, and so frisky and watchable in her role, that after her grisly demise in the shower you miss her for a long time".
In 1999, she played the skeptical daughter of a woman proposed as a candidate for sainthood in The Third Miracle
. Heche wrote and directed the Emmy-nominated HBO movie If These Walls Could Talk 2
(2000). Later that year, she was awarded the Women in Film Lucy Award, along with the rest of the creators and cast of If These Walls Could Talk and If These Walls Could Talk 2.
In 2001, Heche released the memoir Call Me Crazy. She appeared in the Denzel Washington
thriller John Q
and also played Dr. Sterling in the long-delayed adaptation of Elizabeth Wurtzel
's bestseller Prozac Nation (2001). She had a recurring role on the hit show Ally McBeal
as the eccentric soulmate of John Cage during the 2000–2001 season. Heche starred in the Pulitzer Prize
-winning drama Proof
on Broadway. In 2004, Heche received an Emmy nomination for playing a drug-addicted mother who neglects her children in the Lifetime movie Gracie's Choice
(2004). She starred alongside Nicole Kidman
in the well-received independent film Birth
and also appeared in a recurring role on the WB
drama Everwood
before returning to Broadway, where she was nominated for a Tony Award
for a revival of Twentieth Century, starring opposite Alec Baldwin
. She then took on a recurring role on Nip/Tuck
in 2005 as an ex-mob wife and Witness Protection Program subject who requires plastic surgery
. By the next fall, she was headlining her own primetime show, ABC’s dramedy Men in Trees
where she starred as a transplanted New York author living in small town Alaska
, which happens to be abundant with single men and few women. Men in Trees was canceled in May 2008, after a season shortened by the writer’s strike
. She had the starring role in Spread
, a sex comedy
co-starring Ashton Kutcher
released in 2009, which came out in a limited release and with negative reviews, however, Matthew Turney of View London
wrote "There's also terrific support" from Heche.
Heche currently stars in HBO's new series Hung
, a dark comedy that centers on a well-endowed but struggling high school basketball/baseball coach. Thomas Jane
plays the lead character, Ray. Heche plays Ray's ex-wife, who is remarried. The actress replaces Kristin Bauer
, who played the role in the pilot. To date, the show has been received well by film critics.
In 2011, Heche appeared in the independent romantic comedy film Cedar Rapids
, which was screened at the Sundance Film Festival
. The film is about a naive middle-aged man (played by The Hangover
actor Ed Helms
) who ventures out of his sheltered existence for the first time when he’s forced to attend an insurance conference. Since its release Cedar Rapids has received many good reviews in which Heche's performance was well received; David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter
stated that "while Heche shines brightest in more brittle mode, as in HBO's Hung, she strikes a sweet balance between Joan's mischievous and maternal sides".
, Mirabella
and Observer Magazine. Heche was chosen by People
magazine as one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world in 1998. She became a significant subject of widespread media interest while dating comedian Ellen DeGeneres
. With her look in films like Six Days Seven Nights
, she has exuded a certain sex appeal.
with comedian Ellen DeGeneres
and the events following their breakup became subjects of widespread media interest. The couple started dating in 1997 shortly after the famous "Puppy Episode
" of DeGeneres' sitcom Ellen. At one point, the two said they would get a civil union
if such became legal in Vermont
. They also worked on film and TV projects together. They broke up in August 2000.
Shortly after the split, Heche began dating cameraman Coley Laffoon, whom she met while Laffoon was filming a comedy special for DeGeneres. They were married on September 1, 2001. Their son, Homer, was born six months later, on March 2, 2002. The couple formally separated in late January 2007. Laffoon filed for divorce on February 2, 2007. After a long-running court battle over spousal and child support, Heche and Laffoon reached a divorce settlement on March 4, 2009. In 2009, a court order was issued requiring Heche and Laffoon to hire a “parenting coordinator
” to manage their relationships with son Homer. This arrangement remained in effect until May 1, 2011.
Sources say Heche left her husband for Men in Trees
co-star James Tupper
. The couple reportedly moved in together in August 2007. Their son, Atlas Heche Tupper, was born over the weekend of March 7–8, 2009.
Film director
A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...
, and screenwriter
Screenwriter
Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...
. She started her career on the daytime soap opera Another World
Another World (TV series)
Another World is an American television soap opera that ran on NBC from May 4, 1964 to June 25, 1999. It ran for a total of 35 years. It was created by Irna Phillips along with William J...
, for which she won a Daytime Emmy Award
Daytime Emmy Award
The Daytime Emmy Awards are awards presented by the New York-based National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the Los Angeles-based Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in recognition of excellence in American daytime television programming...
in 1991. Heche gradually landed supporting roles in feature films, and in 1997 appeared in I Know What You Did Last Summer
I Know What You Did Last Summer
I Know What You Did Last Summer is a 1997 American horror film. The film stars Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe and Freddie Prinze Jr. The screenplay was written by Kevin Williamson, writer of Scream, and very loosely based on Lois Duncan's popular novel of the same title...
, Wag the Dog
Wag the Dog
Wag the Dog is a 1997 black comedy film starring Dustin Hoffman and Robert De Niro, co-starring Anne Heche, Denis Leary and William H. Macy about a Washington spin doctor who, merely days before a presidential election, distracts the electorate from a sex scandal by hiring a Hollywood film producer...
, Donnie Brasco
Donnie Brasco (film)
Donnie Brasco is a 1997 crime drama film directed by Mike Newell, starring Al Pacino, Johnny Depp and Michael Madsen. It is loosely based on the real-life events of Joseph D. Pistone, an FBI agent who infiltrated the Bonanno crime family, one of the Mafia's Five Families based in New York City...
and Volcano. Her first leading role in a major Hollywood film was Six Days, Seven Nights (1998)—which has remained her highest-profile film role to date. Following a supporting role in the film John Q. (2002), she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award
Primetime Emmy Award
The Primetime Emmy Awards are awards presented by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in recognition of excellence in American primetime television programming...
for her performance in the TV movie Gracie's Choice
Gracie's Choice
Gracie's Choice is a 2004 television movie that premiered on Lifetime, written by Joyce Eliason and directed by Peter Werner, and starring Kristen Bell Anne Heche Diane Ladd and Kristin Fairlie...
(2004), and starred in the 2006–2008 TV series Men in Trees
Men in Trees
Men in Trees is an American romantic television dramedy series which premiered on September 12, 2006 on ABC and starred Anne Heche who played relationship coach Marin Frist. The series was set in the fictional town of Elmo, Alaska and concerned Marin Frist's misadventures in relationships...
. Her most recent film roles include Spread
Spread (film)
Spread is a 2009 film starring Ashton Kutcher and Anne Heche and directed by David Mackenzie. The film was released under the name L.A. Gigolo in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, as Toy Boy in France, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands, Oh yeah in Argentina and as American Playboy in Spain and...
(2009), The Other Guys
The Other Guys
The Other Guys is a 2010 American action comedy film directed and co-written by Adam McKay, starring Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg, and featuring Dwayne Johnson, Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Keaton, Eva Mendes, Steve Coogan, and Ray Stevenson...
(2010), and Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids (film)
Cedar Rapids is a 2011 American comedy film directed by Miguel Arteta. The script, written by Phil Johnston, was included on the 2009 Blacklist, a Hollywood list of the most popular unproduced screenplays of the year.-Plot:...
(2011); she currently appears in the HBO cable TV series Hung
Hung
Hung can refer to:People:* Hùng Vương, a king of Vietnam* Hung Hei-Gun, founder of the martial art Hung Gar Kung Fu* Hung Shing, Chinese government official during the Tang dynasty...
.
As Heche was beginning to establish herself in films during the late 1990s, her career was compromised by her same-sex relationship with Ellen Degeneres
Ellen DeGeneres
Ellen Lee DeGeneres is an American stand-up comedienne, television host and actress. She hosts the syndicated talk show The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and was also a judge on American Idol for one year, having joined the show in its ninth season....
. In 2001, a year after her break-up with DeGeneres, Heches married cameraman Coleman Laffoon, with whom she had a son. Since their separation in 2007 (they divorced in 2009), she has lived with actor James Tupper
James Tupper
James Tupper is a Canadian actor best known for his role as Jack Slattery on the ABC television series Men in Trees and recently appeared as Dr. Chris Sands on the NBC medical drama series Mercy , which was cancelled by NBC in May 2010.Tupper was born in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada...
, with whom she also has a son.
Early life
Heche was born in Aurora, Ohio, the daughter of Nancy (née Prickett) and Donald Joe Heche. Her father was an organistOrganist
An organist is a musician who plays any type of organ. An organist may play solo organ works, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers or instrumental soloists...
, church founder, Baptist
Baptist
Baptists comprise a group of Christian denominations and churches that subscribe to a doctrine that baptism should be performed only for professing believers , and that it must be done by immersion...
minister, and choir director. In her book, Call Me Crazy, she claimed that her father molested
Child sexual abuse
Child sexual abuse is a form of child abuse in which an adult or older adolescent uses a child for sexual stimulation. Forms of child sexual abuse include asking or pressuring a child to engage in sexual activities , indecent exposure with intent to gratify their own sexual desires or to...
her during her childhood, giving her herpes simplex
Herpes simplex
Herpes simplex is a viral disease caused by both Herpes simplex virus type 1 and type 2 . Infection with the herpes virus is categorized into one of several distinct disorders based on the site of infection. Oral herpes, the visible symptoms of which are colloquially called cold sores or fever...
. Her father later disclosed his homosexuality to his family before dying of AIDS in 1983. In that same year, Heche's older brother Nate, who was also an actor, was killed in a car accident just a few months before his graduation from high school. Heche was a noted actress at the progressive Francis W. Parker School
Francis W. Parker School (Chicago)
Francis W. Parker School is an independent day school serving students from junior kindergarten through grade twelve of high school. Located in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood, the school is based on the progressive educational philosophies of John Dewey and Colonel Francis Wayland Parker,...
, in Chicago, and the Bunche Park soap opera. As the World Turns
As the World Turns
As the World Turns is an American television soap opera that aired on CBS from April 2, 1956 to September 17, 2010. Irna Phillips created As the World Turns as a sister show to her other soap opera Guiding Light...
offered her a contract in 1985, when she was 16. However, both she and her mother felt it best that she finish high school first.
Career
Immediately after her high school graduation, Heche landed her first major TV role, that of good and evil twins Vicky and Marley on the NBC soap opera Another WorldAnother World (TV series)
Another World is an American television soap opera that ran on NBC from May 4, 1964 to June 25, 1999. It ran for a total of 35 years. It was created by Irna Phillips along with William J...
. For that work, Heche earned the Daytime Emmy award for "Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series" and won a Soap Opera Digest Awards
Soap Opera Digest Awards
The Soap Opera Digest Awards were an awards show held by the daytime television magazine Soap Opera Digest. The awards were founded in 1984 to replace the less-lavish Soapy Award; those awards shows had run since 1977. The Soap Opera Digest Awards are meant to promote excellence in the soap opera...
. Heche taped her final episode of Another World in 1991 and the following year made her TV film debut alongside Jessica Lange
Jessica Lange
Jessica Phyllis Lange is an American actress who has worked in film, theatre and television. The recipient of several awards, including two Academy Awards, four Golden Globes and one Emmy, Lange is regarded as one of the première female actors of her generation.Lange was discovered by producer...
in the Golden Globe-nominated adaptation of Willa Cather
Willa Cather
Willa Seibert Cather was an American author who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, in works such as O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, and The Song of the Lark. In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours , a novel set during World War I...
’s O Pioneers. She made her feature debut as Mary Jane Wilks in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1993) and gradually landed larger roles in I'll Do Anything
I'll Do Anything
I'll Do Anything is a 1994 American dramedy film written and directed by James L. Brooks. Its primary plot concerns a down-on-his-luck actor who suddenly finds himself the sole caretaker of his six-year-old daughter.-Synopsis:...
(1994) and TV movies Against the Wall (1994) and Kingfish: A Story of Huey Long
Kingfish: A Story of Huey Long
Kingfish: A Story of Huey Long is a 1995 English language drama starring John Goodman and directed by Thomas Schlamme. The film originally aired on TNT and was nominated for two Emmy awards.-Plot:...
(1995), playing Huey Long
Huey Long
Huey Pierce Long, Jr. , nicknamed The Kingfish, served as the 40th Governor of Louisiana from 1928–1932 and as a U.S. Senator from 1932 to 1935. A Democrat, he was noted for his radical populist policies. Though a backer of Franklin D...
's mistress.
Her breakthrough role was that of a friend of Demi Moore
Demi Moore
Demi Guynes Kutcher , known professionally as Demi Moore, is an American actress. After minor roles in film and a role in the soap opera General Hospital, Moore established her career in films such as St...
's character, who falls victim to a hit man in the thriller The Juror
The Juror
The Juror is a 1996 American romantic thriller film based on the novel by George Dawes Green, directed by Brian Gibson and starring Demi Moore as Annie Laird, a single mother picked for jury duty for a mafia trial. The film was released on 2 February 1996...
(1996). She appeared alongside Jada Pinkett Smith
Jada Pinkett Smith
Jada Koren Pinkett Smith is an American actress, producer, director, author, singer-songwriter, and businesswoman. She began her career in 1990, when she made a guest appearance in the short-lived sitcom True Colors. She starred in A Different World, produced by Bill Cosby, and she featured...
and Cher
Cher
Cher is an American recording artist, television personality, actress, director, record producer and philanthropist. Referred to as the Goddess of Pop, she has won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, three Golden Globes and a Cannes Film Festival Award among others for her work in...
in the controversial abortion drama If These Walls Could Talk
If These Walls Could Talk
If These Walls Could Talk is a 1996 made for television movie, broadcast on HBO. It follows the plights of three different women and their experiences with abortion. Each of the three stories takes place in the same house, 22 years each: 1952, 1974, and 1996. All three segments were co-written by...
(1996). She went on to appear in the acclaimed indie Walking and Talking
Walking and Talking
Walking and Talking is a 1996 independent film starring Catherine Keener, Anne Heche, Todd Field, Liev Schreiber and Kevin Corrigan.Walking and Talking is a story about two women best friends and how they deal with their changing relationship as one prepares to get married and the other struggles...
(1996). She was praised for her performance by critic Alison Macor of Austin Chronicle
Austin Chronicle
The Austin Chronicle is an alternative weekly, tabloid-style newspaper published every Thursday in Austin, Texas, United States. The paper is distributed through free news-stands, often at local eateries or coffee houses frequented by its targeted demographic...
who said in her review that "While Heche may be best known for her role on the daytime soap Another World, her acting in Walking and Talking suggests that she, too, is destined for larger film roles". She had a significant role opposite Johnny Depp
Johnny Depp
John Christopher "Johnny" Depp II is an American actor, producer and musician. He has won the Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild award for Best Actor. Depp rose to prominence on the 1980s television series 21 Jump Street, becoming a teen idol...
in Donnie Brasco
Donnie Brasco (film)
Donnie Brasco is a 1997 crime drama film directed by Mike Newell, starring Al Pacino, Johnny Depp and Michael Madsen. It is loosely based on the real-life events of Joseph D. Pistone, an FBI agent who infiltrated the Bonanno crime family, one of the Mafia's Five Families based in New York City...
(1997), as the wife of an FBI agent whose intensely guarded job as a mafia
Mafia
The Mafia is a criminal syndicate that emerged in the mid-nineteenth century in Sicily, Italy. It is a loose association of criminal groups that share a common organizational structure and code of conduct, and whose common enterprise is protection racketeering...
infiltrator threatens to destroy his own life and family. She got positive reviews for her role from critics such as Janet Mislin of New York Times who said Heche "does well with what could have been the thankless role of Joe Pistone's wife, who is left to mind three children and shovel snow for months at a time while Joe is busy being Donnie Brasco".
Heche teamed with Tommy Lee Jones
Tommy Lee Jones
Tommy Lee Jones is an American actor and film director. He has received three Academy Award nominations, winning one as Best Supporting Actor for the 1993 thriller film The Fugitive....
in the disaster flick Volcano (1997) and continued her rise with a well-reviewed turn as a presidential advisor in the political satire
Political satire
Political satire is a significant part of satire that specializes in gaining entertainment from politics; it has also been used with subversive intent where political speech and dissent are forbidden by a regime, as a method of advancing political arguments where such arguments are expressly...
Wag the Dog
Wag the Dog
Wag the Dog is a 1997 black comedy film starring Dustin Hoffman and Robert De Niro, co-starring Anne Heche, Denis Leary and William H. Macy about a Washington spin doctor who, merely days before a presidential election, distracts the electorate from a sex scandal by hiring a Hollywood film producer...
(1997). She appeared in the horror film
Horror film
Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres...
I Know What You Did Last Summer
I Know What You Did Last Summer
I Know What You Did Last Summer is a 1997 American horror film. The film stars Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe and Freddie Prinze Jr. The screenplay was written by Kevin Williamson, writer of Scream, and very loosely based on Lois Duncan's popular novel of the same title...
(1997) and starred opposite Harrison Ford
Harrison Ford
Harrison Ford is an American film actor and producer. He is famous for his performances as Han Solo in the original Star Wars trilogy and as the title character of the Indiana Jones film series. Ford is also known for his roles as Rick Deckard in Blade Runner, John Book in Witness and Jack Ryan in...
in the romantic adventure Six Days, Seven Nights (1998). In 1998, she co-starred as Marion Crane
Marion Crane
Marion Crane is a fictional character from the 1960 film Psycho, directed by Alfred Hitchcock.-Fictional character biography:Unhappy in her relationship with her boyfriend, Sam Loomis , Marion rejects his idea to take the afternoon off and rushes back to her storefront real estate office. Her boss,...
opposite Vince Vaughn
Vince Vaughn
Vincent Anthony "Vince" Vaughn is an American film actor, screenwriter, producer and comedian. He began acting in the late 1980s, appearing in minor television roles before attaining wider recognition with the 1996 movie Swingers...
in the remake of Psycho
Psycho (1998 film)
Psycho is a 1998 American horror film produced and directed by Gus Van Sant for Universal Pictures, a remake of the 1960 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock...
. The film got mixed reviews from media and some critics including Edward Guthmann of San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Chronicle
thumb|right|upright|The Chronicle Building following the [[1906 San Francisco earthquake|1906 earthquake]] and fireThe San Francisco Chronicle is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California, but distributed throughout Northern and Central California,...
stated "Heche is so good, in fact, and so frisky and watchable in her role, that after her grisly demise in the shower you miss her for a long time".
In 1999, she played the skeptical daughter of a woman proposed as a candidate for sainthood in The Third Miracle
The Third Miracle
The Third Miracle is a 1999 drama film directed by Agnieszka Holland starring Ed Harris and Anne Heche. The film was shot in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.-Plot summary:...
. Heche wrote and directed the Emmy-nominated HBO movie If These Walls Could Talk 2
If These Walls Could Talk 2
If These Walls Could Talk 2 is an Emmy Award-winning 2000 television movie in the United States, broadcast on HBO. It follows three separate storylines about lesbian couples in three different time periods...
(2000). Later that year, she was awarded the Women in Film Lucy Award, along with the rest of the creators and cast of If These Walls Could Talk and If These Walls Could Talk 2.
In 2001, Heche released the memoir Call Me Crazy. She appeared in the Denzel Washington
Denzel Washington
Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. is an American actor, screenwriter, director, and film producer. He first rose to prominence when he joined the cast of the medical drama, St. Elsewhere, playing Dr...
thriller John Q
John Q
John Q is a 2002 film directed by Nick Cassavetes starring Denzel Washington as John Quincy Archibald, a father and husband whose son is diagnosed with an enlarged heart and then finds out he cannot receive a transplant because HMO insurance will not cover it...
and also played Dr. Sterling in the long-delayed adaptation of Elizabeth Wurtzel
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Elizabeth Lee Wurtzel is an American corporate attorney, writer and journalist, known for her work in the confessional memoir genre. She is a graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School.-Early life:...
's bestseller Prozac Nation (2001). She had a recurring role on the hit show Ally McBeal
Ally McBeal
Ally McBeal is an American legal comedy-drama series which aired on the Fox network from 1997 to 2002. The series was created by David E. Kelley, who also served as the executive producer, along with Bill D'Elia...
as the eccentric soulmate of John Cage during the 2000–2001 season. Heche starred in the Pulitzer Prize
Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...
-winning drama Proof
Proof (play)
Proof is a play by David Auburn originally produced by the Manhattan Theatre Club on 23 May 2000. It then went to Broadway on 24 October 2000 at the Walter Kerr Theatre, and was directed by Daniel J. Sullivan, with Mary-Louise Parker as Catherine, Larry Bryggman as Robert, Ben Shenkman as Hal, and...
on Broadway. In 2004, Heche received an Emmy nomination for playing a drug-addicted mother who neglects her children in the Lifetime movie Gracie's Choice
Gracie's Choice
Gracie's Choice is a 2004 television movie that premiered on Lifetime, written by Joyce Eliason and directed by Peter Werner, and starring Kristen Bell Anne Heche Diane Ladd and Kristin Fairlie...
(2004). She starred alongside Nicole Kidman
Nicole Kidman
Nicole Mary Kidman, AC is an American-born Australian actress, singer, film producer, spokesmodel, and humanitarian. After starring in a number of small Australian films and TV shows, Kidman's breakthrough was in the 1989 thriller Dead Calm...
in the well-received independent film Birth
Birth (film)
Birth is a 2004 film directed by Jonathan Glazer and starring Nicole Kidman, Lauren Bacall, Danny Huston and Cameron Bright.The story is about a young widow from a prominent Manhattan-based family named Anna who slowly becomes convinced that her husband, Sean, who died ten years previously, has...
and also appeared in a recurring role on the WB
The WB Television Network
The WB Television Network is a former television network in the United States that was launched on January 11, 1995 as a joint venture between Warner Bros. and Tribune Broadcasting. On January 24, 2006, CBS Corporation and Warner Bros...
drama Everwood
Everwood
Everwood is an American drama television series that initially aired in the United States on The WB. The series is set in the fictional small town of Everwood, Colorado, and was filmed in Ogden, South Salt Lake, and Draper, Utah, except the series pilot which was filmed in Canmore, Alberta,...
before returning to Broadway, where she was nominated for a Tony Award
Tony Award
The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway...
for a revival of Twentieth Century, starring opposite Alec Baldwin
Alec Baldwin
Alexander Rae "Alec" Baldwin III is an American actor who has appeared on film, stage, and television.Baldwin first gained recognition through television for his work in the soap opera Knots Landing in the role of Joshua Rush. He was a cast member for two seasons before his character was killed off...
. She then took on a recurring role on Nip/Tuck
Nip/Tuck
Nip/Tuck is an American drama series created by Ryan Murphy, which aired on FX in the United States. The series focuses on McNamara/Troy, a plastic surgery practice, and follows its founders, Sean McNamara and Christian Troy...
in 2005 as an ex-mob wife and Witness Protection Program subject who requires plastic surgery
Plastic surgery
Plastic surgery is a medical specialty concerned with the correction or restoration of form and function. Though cosmetic or aesthetic surgery is the best-known kind of plastic surgery, most plastic surgery is not cosmetic: plastic surgery includes many types of reconstructive surgery, hand...
. By the next fall, she was headlining her own primetime show, ABC’s dramedy Men in Trees
Men in Trees
Men in Trees is an American romantic television dramedy series which premiered on September 12, 2006 on ABC and starred Anne Heche who played relationship coach Marin Frist. The series was set in the fictional town of Elmo, Alaska and concerned Marin Frist's misadventures in relationships...
where she starred as a transplanted New York author living in small town Alaska
Alaska
Alaska is the largest state in the United States by area. It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait...
, which happens to be abundant with single men and few women. Men in Trees was canceled in May 2008, after a season shortened by the writer’s strike
2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike
The 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike, more commonly referred to as simply the Writers' Strike, was a strike by the Writers Guild of America, East and the Writers Guild of America, West ....
. She had the starring role in Spread
Spread (film)
Spread is a 2009 film starring Ashton Kutcher and Anne Heche and directed by David Mackenzie. The film was released under the name L.A. Gigolo in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, as Toy Boy in France, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands, Oh yeah in Argentina and as American Playboy in Spain and...
, a sex comedy
Sex comedy
Sex comedy is a term for comedy movies with sexual content usually referring to those made in the United Kingdom in the mid 1970s. They may range from comic pornographic films like the Confessions series to relatively innocent comedies that include jokes about sex and other sexual related humour,...
co-starring Ashton Kutcher
Ashton Kutcher
Christopher Ashton Kutcher , best known as Ashton Kutcher, is an American actor, producer, former fashion model and comedian, best known for his portrayal of Michael Kelso in the Fox sitcom That '70s Show...
released in 2009, which came out in a limited release and with negative reviews, however, Matthew Turney of View London
View London
View London, owned by the 2 View Group Ltd, is an online entertainment guide to London, UK covering restaurants, pubs, bars and nightclubs in London. It also has a "What's On" guide and reviews of current cinema releases by Matthew Turner, its resident film critic.The site allow users to post...
wrote "There's also terrific support" from Heche.
Heche currently stars in HBO's new series Hung
Hung (TV series)
Hung is a comedy-drama series, which premiered on HBO on June 28, 2009. The series was created by Dmitry Lipkin and Colette Burson and stars Thomas Jane as Ray Drecker, a struggling suburban Detroit high school baseball coach who resorts to male prostitution. The second season premiered on June 27,...
, a dark comedy that centers on a well-endowed but struggling high school basketball/baseball coach. Thomas Jane
Thomas Jane
Thomas Jane is an American actor known for his roles in the 1999 film Deep Blue Sea, the 2001 TV film 61*, the 2004 film The Punisher and the 2007 Stephen King adaptation The Mist...
plays the lead character, Ray. Heche plays Ray's ex-wife, who is remarried. The actress replaces Kristin Bauer
Kristin Bauer
Kristin Bauer van Straten is an American film and television actress, perhaps best known for her role as vampire Pam in the HBO series True Blood.-Biography:...
, who played the role in the pilot. To date, the show has been received well by film critics.
In 2011, Heche appeared in the independent romantic comedy film Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids (film)
Cedar Rapids is a 2011 American comedy film directed by Miguel Arteta. The script, written by Phil Johnston, was included on the 2009 Blacklist, a Hollywood list of the most popular unproduced screenplays of the year.-Plot:...
, which was screened at the Sundance Film Festival
Sundance Film Festival
The Sundance Film Festival is a film festival that takes place annually in Utah, in the United States. It is the largest independent cinema festival in the United States. Held in January in Park City, Salt Lake City, and Ogden, as well as at the Sundance Resort, the festival is a showcase for new...
. The film is about a naive middle-aged man (played by The Hangover
The Hangover
The Hangover is the second solo album by former Guns N' Roses guitarist Gilby Clarke, released in 1997.-Track listing:All tracks by Clarke unless otherwise stated.# "Wasn't Yesterday Great" – 2:45# "It's Good Enough for Rock N' Roll" – 3:12...
actor Ed Helms
Ed Helms
Edward Paul "Ed" Helms is an American actor and comedian known for his work as a correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, as Andy Bernard on the US version of the sitcom/mockumentary The Office and for his role as Dr. Stu Price in The Hangover films.- Early life :Helms was born and raised...
) who ventures out of his sheltered existence for the first time when he’s forced to attend an insurance conference. Since its release Cedar Rapids has received many good reviews in which Heche's performance was well received; David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter
The Hollywood Reporter
Formerly a daily trade magazine, The Hollywood Reporter re-launched in late 2010 as a unique hybrid publication serving the entertainment industry and a consumer audience...
stated that "while Heche shines brightest in more brittle mode, as in HBO's Hung, she strikes a sweet balance between Joan's mischievous and maternal sides".
Media
Throughout her career, she has appeared in several magazine covers including Entertainment WeeklyEntertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly is an American magazine, published by the Time division of Time Warner, that covers film, television, music, broadway theatre, books and popular culture...
, Mirabella
Mirabella
Mirabella was a women's magazine published from 1989 to 2000. It was created by and named for Grace Mirabella, a former Vogue editor in chief....
and Observer Magazine. Heche was chosen by People
People (magazine)
In 1998, the magazine introduced a version targeted at teens called Teen People. However, on July 27, 2006, the company announced it would shut down publication of Teen People immediately. The last issue to be released was scheduled for September 2006. Subscribers to this magazine received...
magazine as one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world in 1998. She became a significant subject of widespread media interest while dating comedian Ellen DeGeneres
Ellen DeGeneres
Ellen Lee DeGeneres is an American stand-up comedienne, television host and actress. She hosts the syndicated talk show The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and was also a judge on American Idol for one year, having joined the show in its ninth season....
. With her look in films like Six Days Seven Nights
Six Days Seven Nights
Six Days Seven Nights is a 1998 adventure film. The screenplay was written by Michael Browning. The movie, filmed on location in Kauai, is directed by Ivan Reitman. It stars Harrison Ford, Anne Heche, David Schwimmer, Jacqueline Obradors, and Temuera Morrison...
, she has exuded a certain sex appeal.
Relationships
Heche's same-sex relationshipSame-sex relationship
A same-sex relationship is a relationship between two persons of the same sex and can take many forms, from romantic and sexual, to non-romantic close relationships. The term is mainly associated with gay and lesbian people...
with comedian Ellen DeGeneres
Ellen DeGeneres
Ellen Lee DeGeneres is an American stand-up comedienne, television host and actress. She hosts the syndicated talk show The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and was also a judge on American Idol for one year, having joined the show in its ninth season....
and the events following their breakup became subjects of widespread media interest. The couple started dating in 1997 shortly after the famous "Puppy Episode
The Puppy Episode
"The Puppy Episode" is a two-part episode of the situation comedy television series Ellen. The episode details lead character Ellen Morgan's realization that she is a lesbian and her coming out. It was the 22nd and 23rd episode of the series' 4th season...
" of DeGeneres' sitcom Ellen. At one point, the two said they would get a civil union
Civil unions in Vermont
Same-sex marriage in Vermont began on September 1, 2009. Vermont was the first state to introduce civil unions in July 2000, and the first state to introduce same-sex marriage by enacting a statute without being required to do so by a court decision....
if such became legal in Vermont
Vermont
Vermont is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state ranks 43rd in land area, , and 45th in total area. Its population according to the 2010 census, 630,337, is the second smallest in the country, larger only than Wyoming. It is the only New England...
. They also worked on film and TV projects together. They broke up in August 2000.
Shortly after the split, Heche began dating cameraman Coley Laffoon, whom she met while Laffoon was filming a comedy special for DeGeneres. They were married on September 1, 2001. Their son, Homer, was born six months later, on March 2, 2002. The couple formally separated in late January 2007. Laffoon filed for divorce on February 2, 2007. After a long-running court battle over spousal and child support, Heche and Laffoon reached a divorce settlement on March 4, 2009. In 2009, a court order was issued requiring Heche and Laffoon to hire a “parenting coordinator
Parenting coordinator
Parenting coordinator is a relatively new practice that is used, in some US states, to manage on-going issues in child custody and visitation cases by professional psychologist or a lawyer assigned by the Court...
” to manage their relationships with son Homer. This arrangement remained in effect until May 1, 2011.
Sources say Heche left her husband for Men in Trees
Men in Trees
Men in Trees is an American romantic television dramedy series which premiered on September 12, 2006 on ABC and starred Anne Heche who played relationship coach Marin Frist. The series was set in the fictional town of Elmo, Alaska and concerned Marin Frist's misadventures in relationships...
co-star James Tupper
James Tupper
James Tupper is a Canadian actor best known for his role as Jack Slattery on the ABC television series Men in Trees and recently appeared as Dr. Chris Sands on the NBC medical drama series Mercy , which was cancelled by NBC in May 2010.Tupper was born in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada...
. The couple reportedly moved in together in August 2007. Their son, Atlas Heche Tupper, was born over the weekend of March 7–8, 2009.
Family
In 1994, Heche's sister, Susan Bergman, wrote a book about the family and their relationship with their father titled Anonymity. Heche and Bergman were reportedly estranged after the release of the book; Bergman died in January 2006.Psychological problems
Heche has stated in interviews to have been mentally unstable in the past, claiming at times to be two different people and communicating with God. She claims that the past emotional and sexual abuse as a child by her father contributed to her being "insane".Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | An Ambush of Ghosts | Denise | |
| 1993 | The Adventures of Huck Finn | Mary Jane Wilks | |
| 1994 | I'll Do Anything I'll Do Anything I'll Do Anything is a 1994 American dramedy film written and directed by James L. Brooks. Its primary plot concerns a down-on-his-luck actor who suddenly finds himself the sole caretaker of his six-year-old daughter.-Synopsis:... |
Claire | |
| 1994 | Milk Money | Betty | |
| 1994 | A Simple Twist of Fate A Simple Twist of Fate A Simple Twist of Fate is a 1994 American dramedy film directed by Gillies MacKinnon. The screenplay by Steve Martin is loosely based on the 1861 novel Silas Marner by George Eliot.-Plot:... |
Tanny's Playmate | Uncredited |
| 1996 | The Juror The Juror The Juror is a 1996 American romantic thriller film based on the novel by George Dawes Green, directed by Brian Gibson and starring Demi Moore as Annie Laird, a single mother picked for jury duty for a mafia trial. The film was released on 2 February 1996... |
Juliet | |
| 1996 | Wild Side | Alex Lee/Johanna | |
| 1996 | Pie in the Sky Pie in the Sky (1996 film) Pie in the Sky is a 1996 romantic comedy film about a young man obsessed with traffic gridlock who falls in love with an avant-garde dancer... |
Amy | |
| 1996 | Walking and Talking Walking and Talking Walking and Talking is a 1996 independent film starring Catherine Keener, Anne Heche, Todd Field, Liev Schreiber and Kevin Corrigan.Walking and Talking is a story about two women best friends and how they deal with their changing relationship as one prepares to get married and the other struggles... |
Laura | |
| 1997 | Donnie Brasco Donnie Brasco (film) Donnie Brasco is a 1997 crime drama film directed by Mike Newell, starring Al Pacino, Johnny Depp and Michael Madsen. It is loosely based on the real-life events of Joseph D. Pistone, an FBI agent who infiltrated the Bonanno crime family, one of the Mafia's Five Families based in New York City... |
Maggie Pistone | National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress The National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress is one of the annual film awards given by the National Board of Review.-1950s:-1960s:-1970s:-1980s:-1990s:-2000s:-2010s:... |
| 1997 | Volcano | Dr. Amy Barnes | |
| 1997 | I Know What You Did Last Summer I Know What You Did Last Summer I Know What You Did Last Summer is a 1997 American horror film. The film stars Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe and Freddie Prinze Jr. The screenplay was written by Kevin Williamson, writer of Scream, and very loosely based on Lois Duncan's popular novel of the same title... |
Melissa 'Missy' Egan | |
| 1997 | Wag the Dog Wag the Dog Wag the Dog is a 1997 black comedy film starring Dustin Hoffman and Robert De Niro, co-starring Anne Heche, Denis Leary and William H. Macy about a Washington spin doctor who, merely days before a presidential election, distracts the electorate from a sex scandal by hiring a Hollywood film producer... |
Winifred Ames | National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress The National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress is one of the annual film awards given by the National Board of Review.-1950s:-1960s:-1970s:-1980s:-1990s:-2000s:-2010s:... Nominated – Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical |
| 1998 | Psycho Psycho (1998 film) Psycho is a 1998 American horror film produced and directed by Gus Van Sant for Universal Pictures, a remake of the 1960 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock... |
Marion Crane Marion Crane Marion Crane is a fictional character from the 1960 film Psycho, directed by Alfred Hitchcock.-Fictional character biography:Unhappy in her relationship with her boyfriend, Sam Loomis , Marion rejects his idea to take the afternoon off and rushes back to her storefront real estate office. Her boss,... |
Nominated – Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress |
| 1998 | Return to Paradise | Beth Eastern | Csapnivalo Awards – Golden Slate for Best Actress in a Leading Role |
| 1998 | Six Days Seven Nights Six Days Seven Nights Six Days Seven Nights is a 1998 adventure film. The screenplay was written by Michael Browning. The movie, filmed on location in Kauai, is directed by Ivan Reitman. It stars Harrison Ford, Anne Heche, David Schwimmer, Jacqueline Obradors, and Temuera Morrison... |
Robin Monroe | Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Actress – Comedy or Romance |
| 1999 | The Third Miracle The Third Miracle The Third Miracle is a 1999 drama film directed by Agnieszka Holland starring Ed Harris and Anne Heche. The film was shot in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.-Plot summary:... |
Roxane | |
| 2000 | Auggie Rose Auggie Rose Auggie Rose, also known as Beyond Suspicion, is a 2001 drama film starring Jeff Goldblum and Anne Heche. It was originally shown on Cinemax and then released on video with the title Beyond Suspicion before a limited theatrical release in San Francisco and Los Angeles, California.- Plot :Insurance... |
Lucy | Also known as Beyond Suspicion |
| 2001 | Prozac Nation Prozac Nation (film) Prozac Nation is a 2001 American drama film directed by Erik Skjoldbjærg, starring Christina Ricci, Jason Biggs and Anne Heche. . It is based on an autobiography of the same name by Elizabeth Wurtzel, which describes Wurtzel's experiences with major depression... |
Dr. Sterling | |
| 2002 | John Q. | Rebecca Payne | |
| 2004 | Birth Birth (film) Birth is a 2004 film directed by Jonathan Glazer and starring Nicole Kidman, Lauren Bacall, Danny Huston and Cameron Bright.The story is about a young widow from a prominent Manhattan-based family named Anna who slowly becomes convinced that her husband, Sean, who died ten years previously, has... |
Clara | |
| 2006 | Sexual Life Sexual Life Sexual Life is a 2005 comedy-drama film written and directed by Ken Kwapis. Cast members include Azura Skye, Carla Gallo, Anne Heche, Elizabeth Banks, Tom Everett Scott, and Steven Weber.It is adapted from Arthur Schnitzler's play La Ronde.- Cast :... |
Gwen | |
| 2007 | What Love Is | Laura | |
| 2007 | Suffering Man's Charity Suffering Man's Charity Suffering Man's Charity, also released as Ghost Writer, is a 2007 comedy/horror film directed by Alan Cumming and written by Thomas Gallagher.-Plot:... |
Helen | |
| 2007 | Superman: Doomsday Superman: Doomsday Superman: Doomsday & Beyond is a licensed novel, published in 1993, set in the DC Comics universe, written by Louise Simonson, and with illustrations from Dan Jurgens and José Luis García-López. It is a young-adult version of The Death of Superman comics storyline from 1992... |
Lois Lane | Voice |
| 2008 | Toxic Skies | Dr. Tess Martin | |
| 2009 | Spread Spread (film) Spread is a 2009 film starring Ashton Kutcher and Anne Heche and directed by David Mackenzie. The film was released under the name L.A. Gigolo in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, as Toy Boy in France, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands, Oh yeah in Argentina and as American Playboy in Spain and... |
Samantha | Limited release |
| 2010 | The Other Guys The Other Guys The Other Guys is a 2010 American action comedy film directed and co-written by Adam McKay, starring Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg, and featuring Dwayne Johnson, Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Keaton, Eva Mendes, Steve Coogan, and Ray Stevenson... |
Pamela Boardman | Uncredited |
| 2011 | Cedar Rapids Cedar Rapids (film) Cedar Rapids is a 2011 American comedy film directed by Miguel Arteta. The script, written by Phil Johnston, was included on the 2009 Blacklist, a Hollywood list of the most popular unproduced screenplays of the year.-Plot:... |
Joan Ostrowski-Fox | |
| 2011 | Rampart Rampart (film) Rampart is a drama film released in 2011. Directed by Oren Moverman and co-written by Moverman and James Ellroy, the film stars Woody Harrelson and Ice Cube. In the midst of the fallout from the Rampart scandal of the 1990s, dirty LAPD veteran Dave Brown is forced to face up to the consequences of... |
Catherine | Filming |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987–1991 | Another World Another World (TV series) Another World is an American television soap opera that ran on NBC from May 4, 1964 to June 25, 1999. It ran for a total of 35 years. It was created by Irna Phillips along with William J... |
Victoria 'Vicky' Hudson Vicky Hudson Victoria "Vicky" Hudson Frame Harrison McKinnon was a fictional character on the NBC daytime soap opera Another World after AW was cancelled the character crossed over to the CBS daytime soap opera As the World Turns in 1999... /Marley Love Hudson Marley Hudson Marley Love Hudson was a fictional character on the NBC daytime soap opera Another World. After AW was cancelled the character crossed over to the CBS daytime soap opera As the World Turns in 2000 to 2003.-References:... |
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series The Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series has been given every year at the Daytime Emmys since the 12th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards ceremony in 1985. The award category was originally called the Outstanding Ingenue in a Drama Series... (1991) Soap Opera Digest Award for Outstanding Female Newcomer – Daytime Soap Opera Digest Awards The Soap Opera Digest Awards were an awards show held by the daytime television magazine Soap Opera Digest. The awards were founded in 1984 to replace the less-lavish Soapy Award; those awards shows had run since 1977. The Soap Opera Digest Awards are meant to promote excellence in the soap opera... (1989) Soap Opera Digest Award for Outstanding Lead Actress – Daytime Soap Opera Digest Awards The Soap Opera Digest Awards were an awards show held by the daytime television magazine Soap Opera Digest. The awards were founded in 1984 to replace the less-lavish Soapy Award; those awards shows had run since 1977. The Soap Opera Digest Awards are meant to promote excellence in the soap opera... (1992) Nominated – Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series The Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series has been given every year at the Daytime Emmys since the 12th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards ceremony in 1985. The award category was originally called the Outstanding Ingenue in a Drama Series... (1989) |
| 1992 | O Pioneers! O Pioneers! O Pioneers! is a 1913 novel by American author Willa Cather. It was written in part when Cather was living in Cherry Valley, New York, with Isabelle McClung and was completed at the McClungs' home in Pittsburgh... |
Marie | |
| 1993 | The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles is an American television series that aired on ABC from March 4, 1992, to July 24, 1993. The series explores the childhood and youth of the fictional character Indiana Jones and primarily stars Sean Patrick Flanery and Corey Carrier as the title character, with... |
Kate | 1 episode |
| 1994 | The Investigator The Investigator The Investigator was a radio play written by Reuben Ship and first broadcast by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on May 30 of that year... |
Lucinda | |
| 1994 | Girls in Prison | Jennifer | |
| 1994 | Against the Wall | Sharon | |
| 1995 | Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long | Aileen Dumont | |
| 1996 | If These Walls Could Talk If These Walls Could Talk If These Walls Could Talk is a 1996 made for television movie, broadcast on HBO. It follows the plights of three different women and their experiences with abortion. Each of the three stories takes place in the same house, 22 years each: 1952, 1974, and 1996. All three segments were co-written by... |
Christine Cullen | Segment "1996" |
| 1996 | Subwaystories: Tales from the Underground | Pregnant Girl | Segment "Manhattan Miracle" |
| 1997–1998 | Ellen Ellen (TV series) Ellen is a U.S. television sitcom that ran on the ABC network from March 29, 1994 to July 22, 1998, producing 109 episodes.The theme song, "So Called Friend" is by Scottish band Texas... |
Karen | 2 episodes |
| 2000 | One Kill | Captain Mary Jane O'Malley | |
| 2001 | Ally McBeal Ally McBeal Ally McBeal is an American legal comedy-drama series which aired on the Fox network from 1997 to 2002. The series was created by David E. Kelley, who also served as the executive producer, along with Bill D'Elia... |
Melanie West | 7 episodes |
| 2004 | The Dead Will Tell | Emily Parker | Nominated – Saturn Award for Best Actress on Television Saturn Award for Best Actress on Television The following are a list of Saturn Award nominees & winners for Best Actress on Television:-1990s:*1996: Gillian Anderson - The X-Files**Claudia Christian - Babylon 5**Melissa Joan Hart - Sabrina, the Teenage Witch... |
| 2004 | Gracie's Choice Gracie's Choice Gracie's Choice is a 2004 television movie that premiered on Lifetime, written by Joyce Eliason and directed by Peter Werner, and starring Kristen Bell Anne Heche Diane Ladd and Kristin Fairlie... |
Rowena Lawson | Nominated – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie |
| 2004–2005 | Everwood Everwood Everwood is an American drama television series that initially aired in the United States on The WB. The series is set in the fictional small town of Everwood, Colorado, and was filmed in Ogden, South Salt Lake, and Draper, Utah, except the series pilot which was filmed in Canmore, Alberta,... |
Amanda Hayes | 10 episodes |
| 2005 | True | ||
| 2005 | Nip/Tuck Nip/Tuck Nip/Tuck is an American drama series created by Ryan Murphy, which aired on FX in the United States. The series focuses on McNamara/Troy, a plastic surgery practice, and follows its founders, Sean McNamara and Christian Troy... |
Nicole Morretti | 3 episodes |
| 2005 | Silver Bells | Catherine O'Mara | |
| 2005–2006 | Higglytown Heroes Higglytown Heroes Higglytown Heroes is a children's television series currently airing on the Disney Junior portion of the Disney Channel, or, on some cable networks, the Playhouse Disney channel... |
Gloria the Waitress | 3 episodes |
| 2006 | Fatal Desire Fatal Desire Fatal Desire is a made-for-TV film produced by Lifetime Television. It premiered April 3, 2006 on the network and starred Eric Roberts as Joe, an ex-policeman turned casino pit boss in Atlantic City, and Anne Heche as Tanya Sullivan, a bored housewife with very manipulative ways... |
Tanya Sullivan | |
| 2007 | Masters of Science Fiction Masters of Science Fiction Masters of Science Fiction is an American television anthology series by the same creators as Masters of Horror. The show debuted on ABC on August 4, 2007 at 10PM for a run of four episodes... |
Martha Van Vogel | 1 episode |
| 2006–2008 | Men in Trees Men in Trees Men in Trees is an American romantic television dramedy series which premiered on September 12, 2006 on ABC and starred Anne Heche who played relationship coach Marin Frist. The series was set in the fictional town of Elmo, Alaska and concerned Marin Frist's misadventures in relationships... |
Marin Frist | 36 episodes |
| 2009–Present | Hung Hung (TV series) Hung is a comedy-drama series, which premiered on HBO on June 28, 2009. The series was created by Dmitry Lipkin and Colette Burson and stars Thomas Jane as Ray Drecker, a struggling suburban Detroit high school baseball coach who resorts to male prostitution. The second season premiered on June 27,... |
Jessica Haxon |
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | If These Walls Could Talk 2 If These Walls Could Talk 2 If These Walls Could Talk 2 is an Emmy Award-winning 2000 television movie in the United States, broadcast on HBO. It follows three separate storylines about lesbian couples in three different time periods... |
Segment "2000 |
| 2001 | Ellen De Generes: American Summer Documentary | |
| 2001 | On the Edge | Segment Reaching Normal |
Further reading
- Heche, Anne. Call Me Crazy: A Memoir. Simon and Schuster, 2001. ISBN 0-7432-2913-4.
- Heche, Nancy. The Truth Comes Out. Gospel Light Publications, 2006. ISBN 0-8307-3912-2.
External links
- Anne Heche US Magazine, February 1998, p. 61
- The Anne Heche Interview Summary of an interview with Heche on September 5, 2001 on ABC News.
- "'Men in Trees' Star Anne Heche Grows Into Her Role". AOL Television, November 27, 2006. Interview.