Anne Heche - Biography

Last Editor: dsb2k				Anne Heche Biography -   Name : Anne Heche Birth Date : 25 May 1969 Birth Place : Aurora, Ohio, USA Birth Name : Anne Celeste Heche Height : 5' 5 Education : High school Ocean City High School, Ocean City, NJ. Nationality : American Claim to fame : as Dr. Amy Barnes in Volcano (1997)

Anne Heche Trivia -

Surname is pronounced "Haytch". Partner of Ellen DeGeneres. [1997 - 2000] Had a 2 year relationship with Steve Martin. Chosen by People Magazine as one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world. [1998] One of four children, she has a brother and two sisters. Her father Don, a choir director, died at 45 of AIDS in 1983. Her sister Susan Bergman has written a book about their family and their father called "Anonymity" (1998). Went to Ocean City High School, Ocean City, New Jersey. Graduated from the Francis W. Parker School, Chicago, Illinois. Announced that she intends to marry Ellen DeGeneres if Vermont carries through its plans to legalize gay marriages. [1999] Split with partner Ellen DeGeneres after being together for 3 1/2 years. [August 2000] Before 'coming out' she dated her former AW co-stars Richard Burgi and David Forsyth. Announced that she is engaged to her boyfriend, cameraman 'Coley Laffoon' . [30 May 2001] During an interview with Barbara Walters, Heche stated that she has an alter ego named Celestia. [5 September 2001] 2 March 2002: 7 pound boy, Homer Heche Laffoon, born in Los Angeles. The baby is the first child for Heche and husband, cameraman Coleman (Coley) Laffoon. 4 September 2001: Autobiography "Call Me Crazy" released. Heche wrote it in just six weeks. Heche's family moved 11 times before she was 12. Was the basis for the Heather Graham character in Bowfinger (1999).

Anne Heche Detailed Biography -

The daughter of a Baptist minister/choir director Anne Heche was born in Aurora, Ohio on May 25, 1969. The youngest of four children, she grew up in a series of small towns with a strict fundamentalist Christian upbringing. Heche began singing and acting in local dinner theater productions when she was twelve. Following her graduation from Ocean City High in New Jersey, Heche landed the dual role of good/evil twins Marley/Vicky in NBC's daytime drama, Another World. She stayed with the show from 1987-1991, during which she picked up some awards, including a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Younger Actress in 1991. After a few minor parts on prime-time TV, Heche made the switch to the big screen in 1993's The Adventures Of Huck Finn. She began landing small roles in higher profile productions. Her fortunes began to shift in 1996, when she had her breakthrough film role in Nicole Holofcener's Walking and Talking, a well-received independent that co-starred Heche and Catherine Keener as best friends experiencing various romantic ups and downs. That same year, she had a supporting role as Demi Moore's best friend in The Juror and although the film wasn't particularly successful, it did give Heche greater exposure. It was during the filming of A Simple Twist Of Fate in 1993 that the actress met actor/comedian Steve Martin twenty-four years her senior, but the two split up in 1995. Her exposure increased exponentially when, after appearing in Wag the Dog and as Johnny Depp's wife in Mike Newell's highly acclaimed Donnie Brasco in 1997. Heche soon appeared opposite Harrison Ford in Six Days, Seven Nights and Return To Paradise with Vince Vaughn (both released in 1998). Anne Heche directed her first feature Reaching Normal in 1999. She then developed and directed a segment of HBO's If These Walls Could Talk 2, starring Sharon Stone and Ellen DeGeneres as a lesbian couple struggling to conceive a baby. In addition to appearances in I Know What You Did Last Summer and Volcano, her performances in Donnie Brasco and Wag The Dog won her the National Board of Review's Best Supporting Actress Award. And at the Oscars ceremony in March of that year, she met comedian Ellen DeGeneres. Both began a high-profile relationship, which instantly propelled them to status of poster girls for lesbianism while both chose to amicably part ways in 2000. Heche married camera-man Coley Lafoon in September 2001. Her autobiography, Call Me Crazy, was released at the end of 2001. On March 2, 2002, she gave birth to a son, Homer Heche Laffoon.