Anne Heche was born May 25, 1969 in Aurora, Ohio. She is the youngest of five children Nancy (nee Prikette) and Donald Joseph Heche. The Heche family moved eleven times from place to place and at some point even lived in the Amish community. As a result, the family of the future actress settled in Ocean City, New Jersey, when Ann was twelve years old. Due to her desperate financial situation, Anne went to work at a local diner.
early years
March 3, 1983, when Anne Heche was 13 years old, her 45-year-old father died of AIDS. After the show, Larry King, the actress said that her father was a hidden homosexual and led a hectic life. Despite the fact that her father was gay, Anne Heche claimed that he had raped her repeatedly until she was 12 years old and until she got genital herpes. According to the actress, he raped her because he was a sexually deviant person, prone to various perversions.
Three months after the death of his father, 18-year-old brother Heche Nathan died in a car accident. The official version said that he fell asleep at the wheel and crashed on a tree, although Heche claims that it was suicide. The rest of the Heche family subsequently moved to Chicago, where Ann attended Francis W. Parker's progressive school.
In 1985, when the future actress was 16 years old, an agent noticed her in a school play and provided her with an audition for a role in a daytime soap opera. Anne Heche auditioned without much difficulty. But her mother insisted that she graduate from high school. Shortly before graduating from high school in 1987, Heche was offered a double role in the daytime soap opera “Another World”. Since the religious mother did not allow Hatch to work until graduation, a desperate girl decided to escape from home to start an independent life.
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For his work in The Other World, Hatch received the Emmy Award in 1991 as an outstanding young actress. The following year she made her debut in the television movie O Pioneers! (1992) in a small role. This was Ann Heche's first film.
In 1993, she played in the Disney's The Adventures of Huck Finn feature film with Elijah Wood. Over the next two years, she had small roles in films made for television, such as Girls in Prison (1994) and Kingfish: The Story of Huey P. Long (1995). She also appeared in the erotic thriller Wild Side (1995).
Future life
Heche starred in the movie Psycho by Gus Van Sant (1998), a remake of the 1960 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. In the updated version, she took on the role originally played by Janet Lee, a girl named Marion Crane, who arrived at an old motel run by a crazy killer named Norman Bates, played by Vince Vaughn in a remake. This film received mixed reviews, and despite a budget of $ 60 million, it raised only $ 37.1 million, thus becoming a major box office failure. Nonetheless, Anne Heche’s game has received numerous accolades from film critics. 1998 was the last year of her career when she starred. She continued to act in films and on television, but quickly fell under the tough press of Hollywood.
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Most of her roles in the early 2000s were in independent cinema and television films. She played the role of Dr. Sterling in the film adaptation of Elizabeth Wurzel's autobiography, working with Christina Ricci and Jessica Lang. After premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2001, the film received a DVD release in 2005. She appeared as the hospital administrator in the John Q thriller about her father (Denzel Washington), whose son was given a rare diagnosis - an abnormally enlarged heart. Cash collection tape amounted to 102.2 million dollars. USA, despite negative reviews from critics. In 2001, she also got a role in the fourth season of the television series Ally McBeal.
Heche played a narcissistic gigolo's girlfriend in the sex comedy Spread (2009), in which she starred with Ashton Kutcher. The film received limited release in North American cinemas, raising $ 12 million at the box office. Matthew Terney from London believed that the game Heche gave this mediocre comedy a touch of exquisite drama. Also in 2009, she starred in the HBO drama series Hung, playing the wife of a school basketball / baseball coach. The series received positive reviews and aired until 2011.
2010
Anne Heche played the role of CEO of a large company in the well-received comedy The Other Guys (2010), starring Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg, and also made itself felt in a much larger role in the comedy Cedar Rapids (2011), where she played a flirty an insurance agent who falls in love with a naive and idealistic man (portrayed by Ed Helms). The premiere of the film at the Sundance festival was very successful, and the film itself was called a very successful example of an arthouse. David Rooney from The Hollywood Reporter emphasized that this role of Heche is distinguished by expressive maternal notes, which was not in the previous works of the actress.
On September 25, 2017, Heche was marked by the role of the fictitious deputy director of the DIA Intelligence Agency, Patricia Campbell, in the new military / spy thriller The Brave. Campbell oversees an elite team of military experts who must take part in particularly dangerous missions led by the mysterious Mike Vogel.
In 2018, she joined the Chicago PD television show in a supporting role.
Ellen DeGeneres and Anne Heche
Heche's relationship with Ellen DeGeneres and the events after their collapse became the subject of widespread interest of the masses. The girls started dating in 1997 and at some point said they would get married if same-sex marriages became legal in Vermont. However, they broke up in August 2000. Heche stated that all her other romantic relationships were with men.
Further private life Ann Heche
On September 1, 2001, the actress married Coleman "Cowley" Laffon, the cameraman she met on the DeGeneres comedy tour. They have a son, Homer, born in March 2002. Laffon filed for divorce on February 2, 2007 after five and a half years of marriage. The divorce was completed on March 4, 2009.
Heche reportedly left her husband, leaving him to her colleague James Tapper. On December 5, 2008, the representative of the actress confirmed that she was pregnant again - this time from her new lover. Their son, Atlas Hatch Tupper, was born in March 2009. This is the second child for Heche and the first for Tupper. However, the couple divorced in 2018 after almost a decade-long relationship.
The career of the actress slowly went downhill of the late 90s, and at the moment the filmography of Ann Heche is notable for only a few vivid roles listed in the article.