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Anne Heche - Biography |
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Actress Anne Heche (pronounced
haytch) has a reputation for being a little crazy, fueled by her
autobiography, Call Me Crazy. She has said that she was sexually abused by
her father until she was 12 years old, and that the experience drove her
insane and gave her genital herpes. By her mid-20s, Heche says she had two
personalities, herself and "Celestia", an alien from another planet who
could talk to dead people, see into the future, and was a half-sister of
Jesus Christ.
Heche's mother, a successful psychotherapist, says that during her
25-year-marriage to Heche’s father she never suspected that he was
molesting their daughter -- and she still does not believe it. She also
never suspected that her husband, a Baptist minister, was sleeping with
other men, until he revealed his gay escapades to his family shortly
before dying of AIDS in 1983. Heche's mother now encourages homosexuals to
“convert” to straightness, and claims that her prayers led her daughter
Anne to become straight again after her long affair with comedian Ellen
DeGeneres.
Heche has never claimed to be lesbian, and says all her other romantic
entanglements have been with men, including rocker Lindsey Buckingham,
actor Steve Martin, and Desperate Housewives hunk Richard Burgi. She is
now married to Coleman 'Coley' Laffoon, a cameraman she met while making a
comedy special with DeGeneres. Heche shuns any labels to describe her
sexuality. "You fall in love with a person," she has said, "not a sex."
Her first leading role in a movie was in Wild Side with Christopher
Walken; the film's director killed himself, reportedly distraught over the
way the film had been edited. In her best films, she played Johnny Depp's
neurotic wife in Donnie Brasco, the president's assistant in Wag the Dog
with Dustin Hoffman and Robert De Niro, and the cold-hearted hospital
administrator in John Q with Denzel Washington.
On TV, she played good-and-evil identical twins Vicky and Marley Hudson on
the soap opera Another World; a Tourette's syndrome sufferer accused of
murder on Ally McBeal; the wife of a disabled man and romantic bait for
Treat Williams on Everwood, and a Mafia princess who needed a new face on
Nip/Tuck. She now stars in Men in Trees, as a New York relationship
counselor who resettled in Alaska.
In 2000, Heche was found wandering in a rural area outside Fresno.
Reportedly wearing only a bra and shorts, she rang a stranger's doorbell,
inquired about a gateway to outer space, and asked if she could use their
shower.
Heche's sister, Susan Bergman, was the author of Anonymity, a book about
her father's long-closeted life and the impact his revelation and death on
their family.
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Anne Heche - Personal Quotes |
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"I put a very high premium on
honesty. What I learned from [my father's] death is that if you
don't accept your sexuality, it will kill you." -- Cosmopolitan
magazine, May 1997
I'm always honest, whether I'm in the limelight or not.
I've always kind of gone with my heart.
And as a child, we have such a wonderful thing as children, that we
can just make the best of everything, and say, Well, this must be
what everybody else is experiencing, and I've got to make the best
of it. You don't know that it's not good until you witness something
that it seems better.
Are we changing the idea of what beauty is? Let's hope so. I'm not
the typical Hollywood beauty. Let's hope we're looking at the
insides of people a little more.
It's my job, to create a fantasy.
We do not fall in love with the package of the person, we fall in
love with the inside of a person.
It's important to talk about loving yourself and looking at your
tragedies and the stuff that makes you grow. |
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Anne Heche - Filmography |
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Superman: Doomsday (2007) (V)
(pre-production) (voice) .... Lois Lane
Suffering Man's Charity (2007) (completed) .... Helen
"Masters of Science Fiction" (1 episode, 2007)
- Jerry Was a Man (2007) TV Episode
What Love Is (2007) .... Laura
"Men in Trees" .... Marin Frist (17 episodes, 2006-2007)
- The Indecent Proposal (2007) TV Episode .... Marin Frist
- Nice Girls Finish First (2007) TV Episode .... Marin Frist
- Take It Like a Man (2007) TV Episode .... Marin Frist
- Bed, Bat & Beyond (2007) TV Episode .... Marin Frist
- History Lessons (2007) TV Episode .... Marin Frist
(12 more)
Fatal Desire (2006) (TV) .... Tonya Sullivan
Silver Bells (2005) (TV) .... Catherine O'Mara
"Nip/Tuck" .... Nicole Morretti (3 episodes, 2005)
- Hannah Tedesco (2005) TV Episode .... Nicole Morretti
- Tommy Bolton (2005) TV Episode .... Nicole Morretti
- Ben White (2005) TV Episode .... Nicole Morretti
Sexual Life (2005) .... Gwen
"Everwood" .... Amanda Hayes (10 episodes, 2004-2005)
... aka Our New Life in Everwood (UK: new syndication title)
- Surprise (2005) TV Episode .... Amanda Hayes
- Since You've Been Gone (2005) TV Episode .... Amanda Hayes
- The Perfect Day (2005) TV Episode .... Amanda Hayes
- Giving Up the Girl (2005) TV Episode .... Amanda Hayes
- Complex Guilt (2005) TV Episode .... Amanda Hayes
(5 more)
"Higglytown Heroes" .... The Waitress (1 episode, 2005)
- Twinkle's Masterpiece/The Egg-cellent Adventure (2005) TV Episode
.... The Waitress
True (2005) (TV)
The Dead Will Tell (2004) (TV) .... Emily Parker
Birth (2004) .... Clara
Gracie's Choice (2004) (TV) .... Rowena Lawson
... aka Gracie's Choice: A Story of Love (UK)
John Q (2002) .... Rebecca Payne
... aka John Q. (USA: poster title)
Prozac Nation (2001) .... Dr. Sterling
"Ally McBeal" .... Melanie West (7 episodes, 2001)
- Falling Up (2001) TV Episode .... Melanie West
- Boy's Town (2001) TV Episode .... Melanie West
- Reach Out and Touch (2001) TV Episode .... Melanie West
- Hats Off to Larry (2001) TV Episode .... Melanie West
- Mr. Bo (2001) TV Episode .... Melanie West
(2 more)
One Kill (2000) (TV) .... Capt. Mary Jane O'Malley
Auggie Rose (2000) .... Lucy
... aka Beyond Suspicion (USA)
The Third Miracle (1999) .... Roxane
Psycho (1998) .... Marion Crane
Return to Paradise (1998) .... Beth Eastern
... aka All for One (USA: alternative title)
Six Days Seven Nights (1998) .... Robin Monroe
... aka 6 Days 7 Nights
"Ellen" .... Karen / ... (2 episodes, 1997-1998)
... aka These Friends of Mine (USA: first season title)
- Hospital (1998) TV Episode .... Karen
- All Ellen, All the Time (1997) TV Episode (uncredited) .... Woman
At Next Table
Wag the Dog (1997) .... Winifred Ames
I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) .... Melissa 'Missy' Egan
SUBWAYStories: Tales from the Underground (1997) (TV) .... Pregnant
Girl (segment "Manhattan Miracle")
... aka Subway (UK: DVD box title)
Volcano (1997) .... Dr. Amy Barnes
Donnie Brasco (1997) .... Maggie Pistone
If These Walls Could Talk (1996) (TV) .... Christine Cullen (segment
"1996")
Pie in the Sky (1996) .... Amy
The Juror (1996) .... Juliet
9 (1996) (VG) .... Miss G-String (The Guitar Woman)
Walking and Talking (1996) .... Laura
Wild Side (1995) .... Alex Lee/Johanna
... aka All the Way (Philippines: English title)
Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long (1995) (TV) .... Aileen Dumont
The Investigator (1994) (TV) .... Lucinda
A Simple Twist of Fate (1994) (uncredited) .... Tanny's Playmate
Milk Money (1994) .... Betty
Girls in Prison (1994) (TV) .... Jennifer
Against the Wall (1994) (TV) .... Sharon
I'll Do Anything (1994) .... Claire
"The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles" .... Kate (1 episode, 1993)
- Young Indiana Jones and the Scandal of 1920 (1993) TV Episode ....
Kate
The Adventures of Huck Finn (1993) .... Mary Jane Wilks
... aka The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
An Ambush of Ghosts (1993) .... Denise
O Pioneers! (1992) (TV) .... Marie
"Murphy Brown" .... Nica (1 episode, 1991)
- It Came from College (1991) TV Episode .... Nica
"Another World" (1964) TV Series .... Marley Love Hudson McKinnon
(aka Marnie Stone) #2 (1987) / ... (unknown episodes, 1987-1991)
... aka Another World: Bay City |
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Anne Heche - Related Links |
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Anne Heche at Babemania.com
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