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Anne Celeste Heche (pronounced
haysh; born May 25, 1969) is an American actress, director, and
screenwriter.
Heche was born in Aurora, Ohio, the daughter of Nancy and Donald Heche.
Her father was an organist, 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 even at Francis W. Parker School, in
Chicago, and the 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.
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 World. Heche made quite an impression with the complicated
dual role, earning Daytime Emmy and Soap Opera Digest Awards. Heche taped
her final episode of Another World in 1991 and the following year made a
significant 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 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) before appearing 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. Heche then
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 starred
as Marion Crane opposite Vince Vaughn in the poorly received remake of
Psycho (1998). 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).
In 2001, Heche released the memoir Call Me Crazy. She had 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 2000-01 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. Her most recent film is Spread, a sex comedy co-starring Ashton
Kutcher released in 2009.
Heche currently stars in HBO's new series Hung, a dark comedy that centers
on a well-endowed but struggling high school basketball 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.
In the early 1990s, Heche dated both Another World costars Richard Burgi
and David Forsyth. She also dated musician Lindsey Buckingham of Fleetwood
Mac for a year in the early 1990s. Heche dated comedian Steve Martin, 24
years her senior, for two years. She is rumored to be the basis for
Heather Graham's character in Bowfinger, although Martin denies it.
Heche's same-sex relationship 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, two years after they separated.
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.
She appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman in August 2009,
publicly criticizing her ex-husband. During her TV interview, Anne
complained about the $3,700-per-month she gives Coley in child support.
Anne not only called him a "lazyass" but went on to say in response to
questions about his job: "He goes out to the mailbox and he opens up the
little mailbox door and goes, 'Oh! I got a check from Anne! Oh! I got a
check from Anne! Yea!'
Her mother, Dr. Nancy Heche, is a professional Christian psychotherapist.
She has toured the USA as a Christian speaker giving testimony of the
impact on her life by her husband's death from AIDS/HIV in 1983, by the
sudden "death bed" revelation of his secret adulterous relationship, and
by Anne's lesbian relationship. Nancy Heche has described how her
spiritual views toward homosexuals have changed. In her recent book, The
Truth Comes Out, she describes how prayers and her own personal spiritual
awakening coincided with Anne's change from a lesbian relationship.
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 Bergman's book; Bergman
died in January 2006.
On August 19, 2000, Heche knocked on the door of a home in Fresno,
California. Dazed and scantily clad, Heche said her SUV had broken down,
asked to take a shower, and then made herself at home. When the police
arrived a short time later, Heche, who had publicly announced the end of
her headline-grabbing three-year relationship with DeGeneres the day
before, declared she was God and would take everyone back to heaven in her
spaceship. Press reports at the time explained that her disorientation was
the result of mental illness—fueled by Ecstasy, according to
Heche—stemming from childhood abuse by her father, which led her to create
an alter ego named Celestia, who was "daughter of God, half-sibling of
Christ, and that she was to spread a message of love to this stricken
planet before ascending into Heaven". |
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The Other Guys (2010)
"Hung" .... Jessica Haxon (10 episodes, 2009)
- A Dick and a Dream or Fight the Honey (2009) TV episode ....
Jessica Haxon
- This Is America or Fifty Bucks (2009) TV episode .... Jessica
Haxon
- Thith Ith a Prothetic or You Cum Just Right (2009) TV episode ....
Jessica Haxon
- The Rita Flower or the Indelible Stench (2009) TV episode ....
Jessica Haxon
- Doris Is Dead or Are We Rich or Are We Poor? (2009) TV episode
.... Jessica Haxon
(5 more)
Spread (2009) .... Samantha
Toxic Skies (2008) .... Dr. Tess Martin
"Men in Trees" .... Marin Frist (36 episodes, 2006-2008)
- Taking the Lead (2008) TV episode .... Marin Frist
- Surprise, Surprise (2008) TV episode .... Marin Frist
- New Dogs, Old Tricks (2008) TV episode .... Marin Frist
- Kiss and Don't Tell (2008) TV episode .... Marin Frist
- Wander/Lust (2008) TV episode .... Marin Frist
(31 more)
Superman/Doomsday (2007) (V) (voice) .... Lois Lane
"Masters of Science Fiction" .... Martha Von Vogel (1 episode, 2007)
- Jerry Was a Man (2007) TV episode .... Martha Von Vogel
What Love Is (2007) .... Laura
Suffering Man's Charity (2007) .... Helen Jacobsen
... aka Ghost Writer (International: English title: DVD title)
Fatal Desire (2006) (TV) .... Tanya Sullivan
... aka Fatal Error (Australia)
"Higglytown Heroes" .... Gloria the Waitress (3 episodes, 2005-2006)
- A Slippery Situation (2006) TV episode (voice) .... Gloria the
Waitress
- Twinkle's Favorite Author/Don't Fence Me In (2005) TV episode
(voice) .... Gloria the Waitress
- Twinkle's Masterpiece/The Egg-cellent Adventure (2005) TV episode
(voice) .... Gloria the Waitress
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)
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: alternative title)
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
Walking and Talking (1996) .... Laura
9 (1996) (VG) .... Miss G-String (The Guitar Woman)
Wild Side (1995) .... Alex Lee/Johanna
... aka All the Way (Philippines: English title)
... aka The Wild Side (Australia: TV 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
... aka Twist of Fate (Australia: TV title)
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
... aka Ambush of Ghosts (Australia: TV title)
O Pioneers! (1992) (TV) .... Marie
"Murphy Brown" .... Nica (1 episode, 1991)
- It Came from College (1991) TV episode .... Nica
"Another World" .... Vicky Carson / ... (13 episodes, 1987-1991)
... aka Another World: Bay City
- Episode #1.6898 (1991) TV episode .... Victoria 'Vicky' Hudson
Frame Harrison McKinnon/Vicky Carson
- Episode #1.6659 (1990) TV episode .... Victoria 'Vicky' Hudson
Frame Harrison McKinnon/Vicky Carson
- Episode #1.6331 (1990) TV episode .... Victoria 'Vicky' Hudson
Frame Harrison McKinnon/Vicky Carson
- Episode #1.6455 (1989) TV episode .... Victoria 'Vicky' Hudson
Frame Harrison McKinnon/Vicky Carson
- Episode dated 29 September 1989 (1989) TV episode .... Victoria
'Vicky' Hudson Frame Harrison McKinnon/Vicky Carson
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