Anne Heche

At 53 years old, Anne Heche has this physical status:

Career

Heche appeared on television for the first time in the dual role of twins Vicky Hudson and Marley Love. Heche appeared on the show for nearly four years, from 1987 to 1991. She has received several awards for her appearance on Another World, including a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series in 1991.

Heche was uncertain about her future as an actress after leaving Another World, not having worked in any other on-screen roles during her time on the soap opera and not having any acting jobs at the time she departed. She knew that she did not want to continue soap operas, which was considered insignificant in the larger field of professional acting. She applied to and received an invitation from Parsons School of Design in New York City as a back-up plan. However, she was given a small supporting role in the Willa Cather book O Pioneers!, which starred Jessica Lange right after applying to design school. Heche opted to attend design school rather than design school in order to pursue her acting career.

When filming in Nebraska filming O Pioneers, she received news of her Daytime Emmy Award for Another World.

"Does this mean I’m an actress?"

Following the announcement, she was answering on a phone call with her agent following the news. The agent suggested that she move from New York City to Los Angeles, which she did days after the shooting was completed on film.

O Pioneers!

It was her first TV film when she first appeared in February 1992. Her results received some deserved critical feedback. She appeared in a guest appearance in an episode of Murphy Brown after finishing O Pioneers! Despite the fact that this episode was shot after O Pioneers!, it was also her first television appearance outside of Another World in November 1991. Murphy Brown's appearance at the Murphy Brown Festival in the 1980s, she felt that guest spots on television shows could be detrimental to her long-term career, so she avoided television guest posts until 2000.

Heche has appeared in many Los Angeles theater productions in 1991 and 1992, including "Us & Them," a Generation X slice-of-life theater work, and "Get Away With Murder," a stage version of the James M. Cain story "The Dead Man and The Baby in the Icebox" series, which were staged in the Mark Taper Forum-sponsored "Sundays at the Itchey Foot" series. Heche made her theatrical debut in the little-seen independent film An Ambush of Ghosts, directed by Everett Lewis in early 1993. Elijah Wood appeared in the Disney film The Adventures of Huck Finn a few years ago. She appeared in bit parts in feature films such as A Simple Twist of Fate (1994) and larger supporting roles in cable television films such as Girls in Prison (1995) and Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long (1995).

She appeared in her first lead role (but without receiving top billing) in Donald Cammell's erotic thriller Wild Side (1995), alongside Christopher Walken and Joan Chen. The film gained notoriety for including a solid lesbian sex scene between Heche and Chen in a very strong way. In 1996, Heche appeared in a segment of the made-for-HBO anthology film If These Walls Could Talk co-starring Cher and Demi Moore as a college student considering an abortion. She appeared in Catherine Keener's documentary Walking and Talking, also this year. The limited-release film received rave reviews from critics and is ranked 47 on Entertainment Weekly's "Top 50 Cult Films of All Time" list. Heche received a glowing review from film critic Alison Macor of Austin Chronicle, who wrote in her review that she is "destined for bigger film roles."

Heche starred in what has been described as her breakthrough role in the crime drama Donnie Brasco as the wife of the main character, an FBI undercover agent played by Johnny Depp. Heche's supporting role was widely lauded, and the film was a critical and box-office success, and the film's support staff were widely lauded. Heche "does well in what could have been the thankless job," critic Janet Maslin of The New York Times noted. Heche's role in three other high-profile film launches in 1997—Volcano, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and Wag the Dog—continued to find success and commercial success by the late 1990s. Vieta, the eruption of a volcano in Los Angeles, starred Tommy Lee Jones and Gaby Hoffmann as a seismologist. Although critical reactions toward the film were mixed, the film's gross sales, which were US$122 million at the international box office, were still quite high. In the slasher thriller sleeper hit I Know What You Did Last Summer, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, and Freddie Prinze Jr. played a backwoods loner. Despite her limited screen time in the film, Heche was regarded as a "standout" by some reviewers, including Derek Eller, who wrote for Variety. In the political satire Wag the Dog, she took on Robert De Niro and Dustin Hoffman, a woman who was never intended to be. The film, which was budgeted at US$15 million, earned US$64 million. In 1997, she was given the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress for her appearances in Donnie Brasco and Wag the Dog.

Heche's first lead role in a major film was in 1998's epic film Six Days, Seven Nights, in which she co-starred Harrison Ford as a New York City journalist who ends up with a pilot (Ford) on a deserted island after a crash landing. She had appeared in the film just one day before her same-sex with Ellen DeGeneres came to an end. Although Heche appeared in a second role in the film Return to Paradise (1998), she felt that her DeGeneres' love affair had hurt her prospects as a leading woman. "You're not getting a job because you're gay," Heche said. "How will that hurt my career?" She wondered. I can't get my head around it." Six Days, Seven Nights received mixed feedback, but the total bill for North America and US$164.8 million were split into two parts. "As Ms. Heche's tenacious Beth Eastern does her best to manipulate the others's (costar Joaquin Phoenix's character) rehears the dramatic drama of a thriller," a writer for The New York Times remarked, "as Ms. Heche's dazzling Beth Eastern does her best to manipulate the other characters on (costar Joaquin Phoenix's character) return to Paradise takes on the abstract weightiness rather than the a "a" on her best to paraphrasedise a n Phoenix's return to manipulates return to n's n Phoenix's a's's t's a adise's a a a a a thriller's a a a adise's a a a n Phoenix's a a versus the viscera adise's avs heftiness of adise's's versus a n's versus adise's's's's's's's's's return to Parad's's return to Paradise's's's versus the a adise's vign's versus the versus the versus the grate versus the versus the vigil versus versus the versus the versus versus the versus the versus the a thriller's versus the versus the versus the versus the versus adise.

In Gus Van Sant's Psycho (1998), a remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film, Heche appeared in Psycho (1998). Marion Crane, an embezzler who arrives at an old motel operated by serial killer Norman Bates in their second collaboration, was played by Vince Vaughn in the updated version. Psycho got critical feedback, and it made US$37.1 million worldwide, despite a US$60 million budget. Janet Maslin of The New York Times found that Heche was "refreshingly cast in Marion's role," while noting that her role was "almost as demure as Ms. Leigh's," despite being more headstrong and flirty. Her 1998 films were the first theatrically released films in which she was a lead actress. In the 1999 film The Third Miracle, directed by Agnieszka Holland, Heche also starred opposite Ed Harris.

Heche spent much of the 1998 to 2001 on film editing jobs, often writing her own screenplays. She departed from acting during this time and had only had a handful of acting appearances from 1999 to 2001. Stripping for Jesus, an evangelical Christian stripper who writes Bible verses on her body in order to reach clients "in a language they can comprehend," she said. The film, according to Heche, was a metaphor for "my life as I saw it." The film was completely self-financed. Heche, Suzanne Krull, and Karen Black appeared in the film.

Ellen DeGeneres, her sister, was in various degrees of involvement in her next films, including cable television and documentary in various degrees of participation. In 2000, Heche supervised a segment of If These Walls Could Talk 2 for HBO, the first of these (and the one with the widest release) appeared. It was an anthology film that grew into a series of segments about lesbian life in individual years spanning many decades. DeGeneres and Sharon Stone played as a young lesbian couple trying to have a baby together by artificial insemination in Heche's "2000." DeGeneres was also one of the film's executive producers. Heche produced another anthology film segment in 2001, this time as part of On the Edge, a Showtime anthology of science fiction stories directed by various actresses. Walter M. Miller Jr.'s short story Reaching Normal was Heche's screenplay adaptation of the short story Command Performance. Andie MacDowell and Paul Rudd star in the tale of a housewife who enters into a telepathic extramarital affair; the episode also includes a cameo appearance by DeGeneres.

Ellen DeGeneres: American Summer, Heche's second film project that was supposed to be released in 2001, was also directed by Heche. The project was never completed. Following the couple's break, DeGeneres, the documentary's producer, states that she "burned" the film after attempting to salvage the project, but that the memories were too painful to bear.

In the early 2000s, Heche appeared in independent films and television; she appeared as Dr. Sterling in Elizabeth Wurtzel's autobiography of depression, Prozac Country, with Christina Ricci and Jessica Lange. The film premiered at the 2001 Toronto International Film Festival, and it was released on DVD for the first time in 2005. In the thriller John Q. about a father and his son (Denzel Washington), she appeared as a hospital administrator with an enlarged heart. Despite poor reviews by analysts, the production made US$102.2 million at the international box office. In 2001, she appeared in Ally McBeal's fourth season.

Heche made her Broadway debut in 2002 in the role of a young woman who inherits her father's mathematical genius and mental disorder. Heche's portrayal was deemed "significant" in her role, according to the New York Times, who had previously appeared on the role as Mary-Louise Parker and Jennifer Jason Leigh. Ms. Heche, who has limited stage experience and is making her New York stage debut at 33, is equally believable. Catherine is a case of delayed growth, impatient, ardent, impulsive. Heche received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for her role in Lifetime's Choice, as well as a Saturn Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her role in CBS's The Dead Will Tell. In the same year, she appeared on Broadway with Alec Baldwin in the revival of the play Twentieth Century's revival, a woman with a unique voice (Baldwin) has turned a chorus girl (Heche) into a leading lady. She was nominated for the 2004 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her role in this production.

Heche appeared alongside Nicole Kidman and Cameron Bright in the well-received independent drama Birth in 2004. During the 2004-2005 season, she appeared on WB's Everwood as an ex-mob wife and Witness Protection Program subject who requires plastic surgery. Heche continued her television appearances with Hallmark Hall of Fame Christmas film Silver Bells (2005) and the Lifetime Television film Fatal Desire (2006) about an ex-cop who meets a woman on an online dating website who tries to kill her husband. The film was loosely based on Sharee Miller's experience.

Heche appeared in the small-scale dramedy Sexual Life (2005), chronicling modern intimate life and co-starring Azura Skye and Elizabeth Banks. The film was shown on the film festival circuit and received a television premiere. Heche began working on her own project, Men in Trees, in 2006. She starred on the show as a New York author, who discovered that her fiancé is cheating on her, moves to a small town in Alaska, which is abundant with single men and few women. After a season was cut by the writer's strike, Men in Trees was canceled in May 2008. Heche appeared in the romantic comedy What Love Is (2007) and Toxic Skies (2008), a science-fiction drama based on the chemtrails conspiracy theory, during the show's airing.

In the sex comedy Spread (2009), Heche co-starring Ashton Kutcher appeared as the girlfriend of a narcissistic gigolo. Though the film received limited success in North American theaters, it earned US$12 million at the international box office. In what Matthew Turney of View London said that "[t]here's also great help" from Heche in what he characterized as a "enjoyable, sharply written, and stunning glimpse of Los Angeles drama." She appeared in the HBO drama Hung in 2009 as the ex-wife of a financially struggling high school coach-turned-male prostitute, played by Thomas Jane. The series received rave reviews and aired until 2011.

A cameo appearance in the well-received comedy The Other Guys (2010), starring Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg, was followed by a much larger role in the independent comedy Cedar Rapids (2011), where she played a naive and idealistic agent in which a naive young man (played by Ed Helms) becomes smitten. The Sundance-premiered production received critical acclaim and was an arthouse hit. "while Heche shines brightest in more brittle mode," David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter praised in his review of the film, "in HBO's Hung, she strikes a sweet balance between Joan's mischievous and maternal sides."

She appeared in Rampart (2011) as one of two former wives of a corrupt police officer (Harrelson) and their two sisters. Following its premiere at the 36th Toronto International Film Festival, Heche and her other female co-stars were selected to shine; the San Francisco Chronicle stated that Heche and her other female co-stars "allow Harrelson to shine; he has always had a way of preening for women and brings out the best in them." Heche was the leading role in the comedy That's What She Said (2012), which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and she also played the girlfriend of a former pro golfer (Colin Firth) in Arthur Newman (also 2012).

In the supernatural horror film Nothing Left to Fear (2013), Heche starred James Tupper, Jennifer Stone, and Rebekah Brandes, about a family's life in a new town being interrupted by an unbalanced man of the cloth. The film was released in theaters and select theaters on demand. Critics condemned it, and the Los Angeles Times noted that Heche and Tupper "should write apology letters to their followers." Heche starred as a Midwestern housewife who believes she is channeling God in 2013. In the action thriller Wild Card (2014), she played the waitress companion of a recovering gambling addict (Jason Statham). The film was only released in certain parts of North America and on a $30 million budget. On The Michael J. She had a regular guest appearance. Prioritizing its cancellation, the Fox Show was cancelled. She signed a first glance at Universal Television in 2013.

Dig, a USA Network action-adventure drama series, had Heche play the head of the FBI office in Jerusalem, whose investigators uncover a 2,000-year conspiracy when investigating an archaeologist's murder. In late 2014, the six-episode series debuted in late 2014. Heche appeared in the ABC thriller series Quantico in 2015 as Dr. Susan Langdon, a criminal profiler. She appeared in Aftermath, a post-apocalyptic action drama that premiered on Canada's Space Network and in the United States' Syfy on September 27, 2016. Karen Copeland, a Washington, D.C. Air Force pilot, must navigate Armageddon with her university-professor husband Josh, played by James Tupper, and their three almost grown children, ages 9-12. For a second season, neither Dig nor Aftermath was revived.

In Opening Night, heche filmed the lead singer for a Broadway musical, as well as Topher Grace. At the Los Angeles Film Festival, the musical comedy was shown. Heche starred Sandra Ohte in another independent film, the comedy Catfight (2016), portraying one of two bitter rivals battling for a lifetime in a tug fight that entails a lifetime. The film premiered on the film-festival circuit and attracted a VOD and limited release, according to largely critical reviews. The Los Angeles Times wrote: "Oh and Heche are excellent here, providing performances that are entirely lacking in vanity and self-consciousness." They aren't afraid to get ugly, both in their care of them and in their post-brawl bruises, which makes them all the funnier."

Joyce, Joyce, the physically impaired mother of Jeffrey Dahmer's teenage Jeffrey Dahmer, played a supporting role in My Friend Dahmer in 2017. (Ross Lynch). She received raves for her appearance, with The Hollywood Reporter describing her "nerve jangling perfection" and Empire calling her "entertainingly off-kilter" and Empire calling her "entertainingly off-kilter."

In the military/espionage thriller The Brave, which lasted for one season on NBC, Heche debuted on September 25, 2017. She appeared on Chicago P.D. in 2018. In a supporting role. Heche appeared in late 2020 as one of the stars of Dancing with the Stars' 29th season, but was disqualified from the competition after the fourth week. Heche co-starred in an ensemble cast in Lindsay Gossling's 13 Minutes about four families struggling with various problems in a fictional Oklahoma town right before a devastating tornado struck.

Heche had finished filming several films that were still in post-production and in which she would appear posthumously at her death in August 2022. Girl in Room 13 was one of Lifetime's "Ripped from the Headlines" feature film. Heche is the film about human trafficking, and it was dedicated to Heche.

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