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Anne Heche

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ChannelDate & TimeTitleBuy
HBOSGeTue, Feb 9, 9:00 PMThe JurorBuy
FXThu, Feb 11, 10:00 AMWag the DogBuy
FXFri, Feb 12, 8:00 AMWag the DogBuy
ENCFri, Feb 12, 12:20 PMDonnie BrascoBuy
HBO2eSat, Feb 13, 10:30 PMHungBuy
HBO2eSat, Feb 13, 11:00 PMHungBuy
ENCWed, Feb 17, 12:40 PMDonnie BrascoBuy
HBOeThu, Feb 18, 4:45 AMThe JurorBuy
AMCFri, Feb 19, 12:00 PMVolcanoBuy
SUNDeSat, Feb 20, 12:00 AMGhost WriterBuy
HBOSGeSat, Feb 20, 7:00 PMThe JurorBuy
HBOSGeMon, Feb 22, 3:30 PMThe JurorBuy
ENCTue, Feb 23, 1:00 AMDonnie BrascoBuy

Anne Heche Biography

Actress Anne Heche arrives to the 15th Annual Race to Erase MS at the Hyatt Regency on May 2, 2008 in Century City, California. The 15th Annual Race To Erase MS - Red Carpet Hyatt Regency Century City, CA United States May 2, 2008 Photo by Lester Cohen/Wi
  • Birth Name: Anne Celeste Heche
  • Birth Place: Aurora, OH
  • Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 05/25/1969, Gemini
  • Profession: Actor
A lithe blonde whose acting career was long overshadowed by her tabloid-ready personal life, Heche was just 18 when she embarked on a four-year stint on the soap Another World. During her tenure, she snagged a Daytime Emmy and her significantly older costar Richard Burgi as her boyfriend. In 1991, Heche left the show and turned in fine supporting performances in a string of TV-movies and indie features, notably as a neurotic bride in Walking and Talking and a hooker with an eye for the ladies in the underrated 1996 thriller Wild Side. Her role in the latter turned out to be prophetic, because the next year, the budding starlet suddenly found herself in the spotlight when she and her lesbian lover, Ellen DeGeneres, went public as a couple. Although Hollywood homophobia probably had a part in stifling her career, her poor choices didn't help, either. Except for the 1997 political satire Wag the Dog, which showed off her comedic side, her subsequent projects were duds (the ridiculous remake of Psycho, the tepid romantic comedy Six Days, Seven Nights), and a nasty break up with DeGeneres in 2000 which prompted a public freak-out (she was found wandering around ranting about aliens), didn't improve her image. In 2001, the addled Heche tried to get her life in order. She married cameraman Coleman Lafferty (ironically, the couple met when he was working on a documentary about DeGeneres), published the autobiography Call Me Crazy (which chronicled her allegedly abusive childhood), and returned to the small screen with a recurring romantic role on Ally McBeal. TV and theater allowed Heche to make a true comeback, and in 2004 she was nominated for a Tony and an Emmy, for her sparkling performance in a revival of On the Twentieth Century and for her harrowing turn as an abusive mom in the TV-movie Gracie's Choice. After a few more recurring series roles, Heche landed her own quirky show, Men in Trees, in 2006, about a romantically challenged relationship coach stuck in self-imposed exile in Alaska. The show not only revved up her career, it allegedly perked up her love life, too: Midway through the first season, she separated from her husband amidst rumors she was having an affair with her small-screen flame, James Tupper.
Anne Heche Fast Facts:
  • Began acting at age 12, appearing in musicals at a Trenton, NJ dinner theater.
  • Was offered the role of good/evil twins Marley McKinnon/Vicky Frame on the NBC soap Another World when she was still in high school, but turned it down so she could finish her education. Later accepted the role, winning a Daytime Emmy Award in 1991 for Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series.
  • Won a Creative Integrity Award at the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center's Women's Night in 1999 for her volunteer work at the Teen Center.
  • Was allegedly the inspiration for Heather Graham's self-involved character in Bowfinger, a comedy penned by Heche's ex-boyfriend Steve Martin.
  • Wrote and directed the "2000" segment of the HBO movie If These Walls Could Talk 2, which starred her then girlfriend Ellen DeGeneres and Sharon Stone as a lesbian couple attempting to have a baby.
  • Penned a 2001 autobiography, Call Me Crazy, in just six weeks.
    Anne Heche Relationships:
  • Abigail Heche - Sister
  • Atlas Heche Tupper - Son
  • Coley Laffoon - Ex-husband
  • Donald Heche - Father
  • Ellen DeGeneres - Ex-significant Other
  • Homer Heche Laffoon - Son
  • James Tupper - Significant Other
  • Nancy Heche - Mother
  • Nathan Heche - Brother
  • Richard Burgi - Ex-significant Other
  • Steve Martin - Ex-significant Other
  • Susan Bergman - Sister

    • Anne Heche Awards:
  • 2004 Tony: Actress (Play) - Nominee
  • 2004 Emmy: Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie - Nominee

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