Anne Heche

Birthname: Anne Celeste Heche

Bio: Anne Heche was born in Aurora, Ohio on May 25, 1969. She is the youngest of 5 children, although 3 of her 4 siblings are now tragically deceased. Her father, Donald Heche, was often unemployed and led a double life as a homosexual. Though despite her father's homosexuality, Anne has said that he raped her from infancy until she was 12, and gave her herpes when she was 8. This experience drove her insane, and she created an alter-ego named Celestia to escape the horrors of her life.Having moved 11 times before she was 12, Anne's family eventually settled in Ocean City, New Jersey, where they all lived together in one bedroom of another family's house. Anne got a job working in a dinner theater, and used her $300 per week salary to support the family. In March 1983, when Anne was 13, her father died of AIDS. Two months later, her brother Nate committed suicide. Anne subsequently relocated to Chicago with her mother Nancy and sister Abigail, and attended the progressive Francis W. Parker School.Immediately after graduating high school in 1987, Anne joined the cast of the daytime soap opera "Another World" (1964). She was on the show for 4 years, and won a Daytime Emmy Award for "Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series". In 1992, she made her TV-movie debut with a minor role in "O Pioneers!", then made her big-screen film debut in 1993 with a minor role in The Adventures of Huck Finn (1993). Anne worked constantly over the next few years with many small parts in a mixed bag of film and TV projects. Her first substantial role was in a segment of the 1996 made-for-cable film If These Walls Could Talk (1996) (TV), in which she gave an excellent performance as a college student who decides to have an abortion.In 1997, Anne had supporting roles in four widely released movies: She played Johnny Depp's wife in the drama Donnie Brasco (1997), appeared in the disaster film Volcano (1997) and the political satire Wag the Dog (1997), and made a brief but memorable appearance in the horror film I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997). Each of these performances earned Anne critical acclaim, but her career was overshadowed by bigger news that year: Out of nowhere, she was in a same-sex relationship with the most famous lesbian in the world, Ellen DeGeneres, and the virtually unknown actress suddenly became a huge controversy. Prior to this, Anne had only dated men, and many speculated that she was just experimenting and accused her of being a gold-digger. Meanwhile, she had just landed her first leading role in the big-budget romantic adventure Six Days Seven Nights (1998) with Harrison Ford. She was terrific and extremely charming in the film. It did very well at the box office when it came out in the summer of 1998, but was not a blockbuster as anticipated. Later in 1998, she had her second leading role (and her best role to date) in the exceptional drama Return to Paradise (1998) with Vince Vaughn. As a smaller film, it did not do very well at the box office and was overlooked for any major awards. Anne's third film that year was the unnecessary, inferior, and widely-panned remake of Psycho (1998); though the film was a massive failure, it had little to do with the quick derailment of her promising career.In the worst of timing, Anne's updated sexual status had seemingly ruined her career just as she seemed destined to become a major star. Anne stated that she lost a lot of opportunities because of her sexual orientation, and her output decreased significantly. In August 2000, she and DeGeneres broke up after 3 years together. A day after the split was announced, Anne drove to Fresno, parked her car along a dusty roadside and walked a mile and a half to a stranger's house. High on ecstasy and wearing only a bra and shorts, Anne rang the doorbell and asked if she could take a shower. The resident obliged, then Anne curled up on the sofa and said she wanted to watch a movie. After showing no signs of leaving, the resident called the police. According to the police report, Anne told officers that she was "God, and was going to take everyone back to heaven...in a spaceship." She was taken to a hospital and released within a few hours. If her relationship with DeGeneres didn't destroy the merits of her film career, this incident certainly did.By the end of 2000, Anne was unexpectedly in a heterosexual relationship, with cameraman Coleman 'Coley' Laffoon, whom she had met when he was part of a crew filming a documentary about DeGeneras. The following year, Anne released an autobiography titled "Call Me Crazy," in which she described her horrifying childhood and stated that she was insane for the first 31 years of her life, until the incident in Fresno snapped her out of it and put her alter-ego behind her. Anne also described her estrangement from her mother Nancy, which began when Anne confronted her about the sexual abuse she suffered at the hands of her father. Nancy Heche, who claims she cured Anne's lesbianism through prayer, is a successful psychotherapist and motivational speaker who encourages gays to "convert" to straightness. She and Anne remain estranged.Prior to the break-up with DeGeneres and the subsequent incident in Fresno, Anne had co-starring roles in the little-seen indie The Third Miracle (1999) and the straight-to-cable film Auggie Rose (2000), as well as a supporting role in the mainstream thriller John Q (2002) which sat on the shelf for nearly 2 years before its 2002 release. In 2001, she had a recurring guest role on the TV sitcom "Ally McBeal" (1997) and a supporting role in the straight-to-video film Prozac Nation (2001). Anne married Laffoon on September 1, 2001, and six months later their son Homer was born on March 2, 2002. After taking some time off to be with her baby, Anne tried to get her career back on track. In 2004 she starred in the TV movies Gracie's Choice (2004) (TV) and The Dead Will Tell (2004) (TV), and had a supporting role in Birth (2004), a very good independent film starring Nicole Kidman. Anne soon returned to television in 2005 with recurring guest roles on the dramatic shows "Everwood" (2002) and "Nip/Tuck" (2003). In more TV movies, she starred in the Hallmark Christmas drama "Silver Bells" and the Lifetime thriller Fatal Desire (2006) (TV).In 2006, Anne turned to television full-time by starring in her own series: "Men in Trees" (2006) was a delightful comedy-drama in which she played Marin Frist, a New York relationship coach who, after finding out her fiancée has been cheating on her, moves to a small town in Alaska to get a new start, where the ratio of men to women is 10 to 1. The series, which was shot entirely on location in Vancouver, Canada, was very well-received by both critics and audiences during its first season. Anne's love interest was played by Canadian actor James Tupper, whom Anne left her husband for. Laffoon filed for divorce from Anne in February 2007, which marked the beginning of a two-year court battle over child and spousal support. Laffoon was granted primary custody of their son Homer in L.A. because Anne was living in Vancouver to film "Men in Trees." However, in June 2008, following a hiatus due to the writer's strike, the show was unfortunately canceled after 36 episodes. Following the cancellation, Anne claimed she had no money and could no longer afford to pay the ridiculous $15,000 per month child support. Anne, who had recently moved in with James Tupper, was sad to leave their home in Vancouver and go back to L.A. She became pregnant by James, and on March 8, 2009, she gave birth to their son Atlas, while still legally married to Laffoon. The divorce was finalized 2 days later, and a court order was issued requiring them to hire a "parenting coordinator" to manage their relationships with Homer, which remained in effect until 2011.After yet another fiasco with both her career and personal life, Anne went looking for work. She got a role in the film Spread (2009), in which she had a number of explicit sex scenes with Ashton Kutcher; several actresses turned down the part before Anne was cast. Then, she she took a supporting role in the cable TV series "Hung" (2009), as the ex-wife of the main character, played by James Tupper; the actress who had played the role in the pilot episode left the cast before Anne signed on. Though the role was well beneath her talents, Anne stated that she was just happy to be getting work. Two years passed before she did another project, the indie comedy Cedar Rapids (2011), in which she gave a funny performance. By the end of 2011, "Hung" was canceled after 30 episodes and Anne signed with a new agency. Only time will tell if this extremely underused, one-of-a-kind actress will get another high-profile film role and become the Hollywood star that she should be.

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