Anne Heche

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Anne Heche in Los Angeles (2007)

Anne Celeste Heche [ heɪʃ ] (born May 25, 1969 in Aurora , Ohio ) is an American actress , screenwriter and film director .

Life

Anne Heche (1997)

Heche is the youngest of Donald and Nancy Heche's five children. Her parents were fundamentalist Christians and she claims to have had a traumatic childhood. One of her sisters died as a baby. Her father, leader of a Christian choir, died of AIDS in 1983 . He led a double life as a homosexual, kept secret from the family . In September 2001, Heches autobiography Call Me Crazy was published , in which she wrote of her alter ego "Celestia", which she is said to have even dominated at times. She also writes that she was sexually abused by her father in her childhood.

Heche left Steve Martin in 1997 after a two-year relationship to have a three-year relationship with comedian Ellen DeGeneres . In 2001 Heche married the cameraman Coley Laffoon, from whom they separated in January 2007. The two have a son born in 2002. From autumn 2007 to the beginning of 2018, Heche was in a relationship with her fellow actor James Tupper , who played with her in the television series Men in Trees . Their son was born in March 2009.

Career

Heche went to high school in New Jersey and was successful in school theater as an actress, so that she was offered her first roles in television series while she was still in school. She decided to graduate first.

From 1987 to 1992 she was best known for her role in Another World , for which she received an Emmy . She subsequently appeared in films such as Volcano , Wag the Dog (both 1997) and Six Days, Seven Nights (1998). In the same year, Heche was voted one of the “50 most beautiful people in the world” by People Magazine . In 1998 she starred as Marion Crane in Gus Van Sant's remake of Alfred Hitchcock's classic Psycho .

On television, Heche continued to enjoy success with appearances on series such as Ally McBeal and Everwood . In 2000 she directed a segment of the episode film Women Love Women with Ellen DeGeneres and Sharon Stone as actresses, in 2001 a segment of the television film Random - Nothing is As It Seems with Andie MacDowell and Ellen DeGeneres. Until 2008, Heche played the leading role of Marin Deadline in the television series Men in Trees . In 2005, Heche was nominated for a Tony Award for her role in the Broadway comedy Twentieth Century . In 2014 she developed the idea for the NBC comedy series Bad Judge , which was discontinued after the first season.

In the 2017 biopic My Friend Dahmer she plays the mother of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer .

In 2017 she was accepted into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), which awards the Oscars every year.

Filmography (selection)

As an actress

As a director

  • 2000: Women Love Women ( If These Walls Could Talk 2 , movie made for TV)
  • 2001: Random ( On the Edge , TV movie)

As a screenwriter

Web links

Commons : Anne Heche  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.eonline.com/news/905916/anne-heche-and-james-tupper-break-up-after-more-than-10-years-together
  2. ↑ Class of 2017. Accessed June 30, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Heche, Anne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heche, Anne Celeste (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actress, screenwriter and film director
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Aurora , Ohio