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Anne Heche
Anne Heche July 14, 2014 (cropped).jpg
Heche in 2014
Born Anne Celeste Heche
Early life
Heche was born on May 25, 1969, in Aurora, Ohio, the youngest of five children of Nancy Heche (née Prickett) and Donald Joseph Heche.[5][6] Heches family moved eleven times during her childhood; at one point, they lived in an Amish community.[7] When asked in a 2001 interview on Larry King Live what her fathers source of income was, Heche replied, "Well, he was a choir director. But I dont think he made much on that a week. He said that he was involved in a business of gas and oil, and he said that until the day he died, but he never was involved in the business of gas and oil ever."[8] The family settled in Ocean City, New Jersey, when Heche was twelve years old. Due to the familys strained finances, she went to work at a dinner theater in Swainton.[9][10] "At the time wed been kicked out of our house and my family was holed up living in a bedroom in the home of a generous family from our church", she said.[11] "I got $100 a week, which was more than anyone else in my family. We all pooled our money in an envelope in a drawer and saved up enough to move out after a year."[11]
On March 3, 1983, when Heche was 13, her 45-year-old father died of HIV/AIDS, which she believed was contracted from a homosexual partner: "He was in complete denial until the day he died. We know he got it from his gay relationships. Absolutely. I dont think it was just one. He was a very promiscuous man, and we knew his lifestyle then", Heche said on Larry King Live.[8] Heche said that he repeatedly raped her from the time she was an infant until she was 12, giving her genital herpes.[12] When asked "But why would a gay man rape a girl?" in a 2001 interview with The Advocate, Heche replied "I dont think he was just a gay man. I think he was sexually deviant. My belief was that my father was gay and he had to cover that up. I think he was sexually abusive. The more he couldnt be who he was, the more that came out of him in [the] ways that it did."[12] In a 1998 interview, she reflected that her father being closeted ultimately "destroyed his happiness and our family. But it did teach me to tell the truth. Nothing else is worth anything."[13]
Three months after her fathers death, Heches 18-year-old brother Nathan was killed in a car crash.[11] The official determination was that he fell asleep at the wheel and struck a tree,[6] though Heche claims it was suicide.[14] The remainder of Heches family subsequently moved to Chicago, where Heche attended the progressive Francis W. Parker School. In 1985, when Heche was 16, an agent spotted her in a school play and secured her an audition for the daytime soap opera As the World Turns. Heche flew to New York City, auditioned, and was offered a job, but her mother insisted she finish high school first.[10] Shortly before her high school graduation in 1987, Heche was offered a dual role on the daytime soap opera Another World. "Again I was told I couldnt go. My mother was very religious and maybe she thought it was a sinners world", Heche stated. "But I got on the phone and said, Send me the ticket. Im getting on the plane. I did my time with my mom in a one-bedroom, skanky apartment and I was done."[11]
Career
1990s
For her work on Another World, Heche received a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series in 1991.[15] In November 1991, Heche made her primetime television debut in an episode of Murphy Brown.[16] She made her TV-movie debut the following year with a brief appearance in the Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation of O Pioneers! (1992). In 1993 Heche made her feature-film debut in Disneys The Adventures of Huck Finn with Elijah Wood. Over the next two years, she had small supporting roles in made-for-TV movies such as Girls in Prison (1994) and Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long (1995). She also appeared in Donald Cammells erotic thriller Wild Side (1995) as Joan Chens lesbian lover.[17]
In 1996 Heche landed her first substantial role as a college student contemplating an abortion in a segment of the made-for-HBO anthology film If These Walls Could Talk, co-starring Cher and Demi Moore.[18] Also in the year, she appeared opposite Catherine Keener portraying childhood best friends in the independent film Walking and Talking. The limited-release film garnered favorable reviews from critics and is number 47 on Entertainment Weeklys "Top 50 Cult Films of All-Time" list.[19] Heche gained positive notice from film critic Alison Macor of Austin Chronicle, who wrote in her review that she "is destined for larger film roles".[20] She played the wife of Johnny Depps titular FBI undercover agent in the 1997 crime drama Donnie Brasco. The film made $124.9 million worldwide,[21] and critic Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote: "[Heche] does well with what could have been the thankless role."[22]
Heche at the Primetime Emmy Awards in 1997
By the late 1990s Heche continued to find recognition and commercial success as she took on supporting roles in three other 1997 high-profile film releases—Volcano, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and Wag the Dog. The disaster film Volcano, about the formation of a volcano in Los Angeles, had her star with Tommy Lee Jones and Gaby Hoffmann, playing a seismologist. While critical response towards the film was mixed, it grossed US$122 million at the international box office.[23] She portrayed the minor role of a backwoods loner in the slasher thriller sleeper hit I Know What You Did Last Summer, starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, and Freddie Prinze Jr. Despite her limited screen time in the film, Heche was considered a "standout" by some reviewers,[24] such as Derek Eller writing for Variety.[25] She obtained the part of a presidential advisor opposite Robert De Niro and Dustin Hoffman in the political satire Wag the Dog, a role that was originally written for a man.[10] Budgeted at US$15 million, the film made US$64 million.[26]
Heches first starring role came in the 1998 romantic adventure Six Days, Seven Nights, where she appeared opposite Harrison Ford, portraying a New York City journalist who ends up with a pilot (Ford) on a deserted island following a crash landing. She had been cast in the film one day before her same-sex relationship with Ellen DeGeneres went public.[27] Although Heche was cast in a second starring role shortly thereafter as Vince Vaughns love interest in the drama Return to Paradise (1998), she felt that her relationship with DeGeneres destroyed her prospects as a leading woman.[28] According to Heche, "People said, Youre not getting a job because youre gay".[29] She commented: "How could that destroy my career? I still cant wrap my head around it."[28] Six Days, Seven Nights received mixed reviews, but grossed US$74.3 million in North America and US$164.8 million worldwide.[30] On her appearance in the dramatic thriller Return to Paradise, a writer for The New York Times remarked, "as Ms. Heches formidable Beth Eastern does her best to manipulate the other characters on [co-star Joaquin Phoenixs character] behalf, Return to Paradise takes on the abstract weightiness of an ethical debate rather than the visceral urgency of a thriller".[31]
Heche starred in Gus Van Sants Psycho (1998), a remake of the 1960 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. In the updated version, she took on the role originally played by Janet Leigh, Marion Crane, an embezzler who arrives at an old motel run by serial killer Norman Bates (played by Vince Vaughn in their second collaboration). Psycho earned negative reviews, and despite a US$60 million budget, it made US$37.1 million worldwide.[32] In an otherwise negative review of the film, Janet Maslin of The New York Times felt that Heche was "refreshingly cast in Marions role", while noting that her portrayal was "almost as demure as Ms. Leighs, yet shes also more headstrong and flirty".[33] Her 1998 films were the only theatrically released films in which she had a leading role.[34] Heche also starred opposite Ed Harris in the 1999 film, The Third Miracle, directed by Agnieszka Holland.[35]
Quelle Wikipedia
May 25, 1969
Aurora, Ohio, U.S.
Died August 11, 2022 (aged 53)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Education Francis W. Parker School
Occupation Actress
Years active 1987–2022
Spouse(s) Coleman "Coley" Laffoon
(m. 2001; div. 2009)
Partner(s)
Ellen DeGeneres (1997–2000)
James Tupper (2007–2019)
Children 2
Parent(s)
Nancy Heche (mother)
Anne Celeste Heche (/heɪtʃ/ HAYTCH;[1][2][3] May 25, 1969 – August 11, 2022) was an American actress who came to recognition portraying twins Vicky Hudson and Marley Love on the soap opera Another World (1987–1991), winning her a Daytime Emmy Award and two Soap Opera Digest Awards. She achieved greater prominence in the late 1990s with roles in the crime drama film Donnie Brasco (1997), the disaster film Volcano (1997), the slasher film I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997), the action comedy film Six Days, Seven Nights (1998), and the drama-thriller film Return to Paradise (1998).
Following her portrayal of Marion Crane in Gus Van Sants horror remake film Psycho (1998), which earned her a Saturn Award nomination, Heche went on to have roles in many well-received independent films, such as the drama film Birth (2004), the sex comedy film Spread (2009), Cedar Rapids (2011), the drama film Rampart (2011), and the black comedy film Catfight (2016). She received acclaim for her role in the television film Gracies Choice, which earned her a Primetime Emmy Award nomination, and for her work on Broadway, particularly in a restaging of the play Twentieth Century, for which she received a Tony Award nomination.
In addition to her film roles, Heche starred in the comedy drama television series Men in Trees (2006–08), Hung (2009–11), Save Me (2013), Aftermath (2016), and the military drama television series The Brave (2017).[4] She lent her voice to the animated television series The Legend of Korra (2014), where she voiced Suyin Beifong, and appeared as a contestant in the 29th season of Dancing with the Stars (2020).
