{"id":45933,"date":"2022-08-15T12:19:52","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T12:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/anne-heche-actress-known-for-90s-film-roles-dies-at-53\/"},"modified":"2022-08-15T12:19:52","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T12:19:52","slug":"anne-heche-actress-known-for-90s-film-roles-dies-at-53","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/anne-heche-actress-known-for-90s-film-roles-dies-at-53\/","title":{"rendered":"Anne Heche, Actress Known for &#8217;90s Film Roles, Dies at 53"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Anne Heche, an actress who was as well known for her roles in films like \u201cSix Days, Seven Nights\u201d and \u201cDonnie Brasco\u201d as for her personal life, which included a three-year romance with the comedian Ellen DeGeneres, died on Sunday in Los Angeles, nine days after she was in a devastating car accident there.  She was 53.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Her death was announced by a representative, Holly Baird, who said late Sunday in an email that Ms.  Heche had been \u201cpeacefully taken off life support.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms.  Heche was critically injured on Aug.  5 when a Mini Cooper she was driving crashed into a two-story home in the Mar Vista neighborhood of Los Angeles, causing a fire that took firefighters more than an hour to extinguish.  Ms.  Heche, who was alone in the car, sustained burns and a severe anoxic brain injury, caused by a lack of oxygen to the brain.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A spokesman for the Los Angeles Police said the department was continuing to investigate whether drug use contributed to the accident.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A statement released by her publicist on behalf of her family on Thursday night said Ms.  Heche had stayed in a coma at the Grossman Burn Center at West Hills Hospital in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt has long been her choice to donate her organs, and she is being kept on life support to determine if any are viable,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Friday, a representative said Ms.  Heche had been declared brain-dead on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms.  Heche was a soap opera star before she became known to movie audiences.  In the late 1980s, soon after she graduated from high school, she joined the cast of the daytime drama \u201cAnother World,\u201d where she played the good and evil twins Vicky Hudson and Marley Love.  She won a Daytime Emmy Award in 1991 for outstanding younger actress in a drama series.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">By the mid-1990s, she was a rising star in Hollywood.  She played Catherine Keener&#8217;s best friend in \u201cWalking and Talking\u201d (1996);  Johnny Depp&#8217;s wife in \u201cDonnie Brasco\u201d (1997);  a presidential aide in the political satire \u201cWag the Dog\u201d (1997), with Dustin Hoffman and Robert De Niro;  and a fashion magazine editor who crash-lands on a South Seas island in an airplane piloted by Harrison Ford in \u201cSix Days, Seven Nights\u201d (1998).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cRomantic comedies don&#8217;t get more formulaic than this bouncing-screwball valentine, but they don&#8217;t get much more delightful, either,\u201d Rita Kempley wrote in her review of \u201cSix Days, Seven Nights\u201d in The Washington Post.  \u201cThe same goes for Heche and Ford as squabbling opposites drawn together during this tropical adventure.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms.  Heche began a relationship with Ms.  DeGeneres in 1997, at a time when same-sex relationships in Hollywood were not fully accepted.  The relationship became widely known in April of that year when they appeared, hand in hand, at the annual White House Correspondents&#8217; Dinner in Washington.  A few days later, Ms.  DeGeneres&#8217; character on her sitcom, \u201cEllen,\u201d came out as gay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms.  Heche&#8217;s decision to reveal that she was in a lesbian relationship, The New York Times wrote, \u201cconfronted Hollywood with a highly delicate problem: how to deal with a gay actress whose career has been built on playing heterosexual roles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">After that relationship ended, Ms.  Heche married and later divorced a man, Coleman Laffoon, with whom she had a son, Homer.  She also had a son, Atlas Heche Tupper, from her relationship with the actor James Tupper.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Complete information on her survivors was not immediately available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms.  Heche told The New York Post in 2021 that she had been \u201cblacklisted\u201d in Hollywood because of her relationship with Ms.  DeGeneres.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI didn&#8217;t do a studio picture for 10 years,\u201d she was quoted as saying.  \u201cI was fired from a $10 million picture deal and did not see the light of day in a studio picture.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">After she starred in \u201cSix Days, Seven Nights\u201d and in Gus Van Sant&#8217;s 1998 remake of Alfred Hitchcock&#8217;s \u201cPsycho\u201d as Marion Crane, the role originally played by Janet Leigh, leading roles in movies largely gave way to guest appearances on television shows like \u201cAlly McBeal\u201d and \u201cNip\/Tuck.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">She also starred in the short-lived sitcom \u201cMen in Trees,\u201d had recurring roles on \u201cEverwood\u201d and \u201cChicago PD\u201d and landed a featured part on the HBO series \u201cHung,\u201d which starred Thomas Jane as a male prostitute.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">She appeared on Broadway in the play \u201cProof\u201d from 2002 until it closed in 2003, then in the 2004 revival of \u201cTwentieth Century,\u201d the 1932 comedy about a Broadway producer (Alec Baldwin) who, as a passenger on the Twentieth Century Limited train, meets a former discovery, Lily Garland (Ms. Heche), who has become a Hollywood star.  The role earned Ms.  Heche a Tony Award nomination for best performance by a leading actress in a play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In his review in The Times, Ben Brantley wrote, \u201cHer posture melting between serpentine seductiveness and a street fighter&#8217;s aggressiveness, her voice shifting between supper-club velvet and dime-store vinyl, Ms.  Heche summons an entire gallery of studio-made sirens from the Depression era: Jean Harlow, the pre-mummified Joan Crawford and, yes, Carole Lombard, who famously portrayed Lily in Howard Hawks&#8217;s screen version of &#8216;Twentieth Century.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In 2004, Ms.  Heche was nominated for a Primetime Emmy for outstanding supporting actress in a mini-series or movie, for her performance in \u201cGracie&#8217;s Choice,\u201d a TV movie about a teenager faced with raising her half siblings after their drug-addicted mother is sent to prison .<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">She appeared most recently in the films \u201cThe Vanished\u201d (2020), a psychological thriller, and \u201c13 Minutes\u201d (2021), which centers on a tornado, as well as several episodes of the courtroom drama \u201cAll Rise.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Anne Celeste Heche was born on May 25, 1969, in Aurora, Ohio, to Nancy and Donald Heche.  Her father was an evangelical Christian and, it turned out, a closeted gay man.  Her first acting role was in a New Jersey dinner theater production of \u201cThe Music Man,\u201d which paid her $100 a week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In 1983, after her father died of AIDS, her mother became a Christian therapist and lectured on behalf of James Dobson&#8217;s organization Focus on the Family about \u201covercoming\u201d homosexuality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms.  Heche wrote in a 2001 memoir, \u201cCall Me Crazy,\u201d about being sexually abused by her father, and about her mother&#8217;s denial of that abuse.  She said that when she called her mother after years of therapy to confront her about it, her mother ended the conversation by saying, \u201cJesus loves you, Anne,\u201d before hanging up.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cPeople wonder why I am so forthcoming with the truths that have happened in my life,\u201d Ms.  Heche said in an interview with The Times in 2009. \u201cAnd it&#8217;s because the lies that I have been surrounded with and the denial that I was raised in, for better or worse, bore a child of truth and love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In 2018, she said she had been fired from a job at Miramax when she refused to give oral sex to Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced film magnate who founded the company with his brother, Bob, and who was accused of sexual assault by dozens of women .  He was convicted of two felony sex crimes in 2020 and is serving a 23-year prison sentence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIf I wasn&#8217;t sexually abused as a child, I don&#8217;t know if I would have had the strength to stand up to Harvey \u2014 and many others, by the way,\u201d she told the podcast \u201cAllegedly \u2026 With Theo Von &#038; Matthew Cole Weiss.\u201d  \u201cIt was not just Harvey, and I will say that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Vimal Patel<!-- --> contributed reporting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anne Heche, an actress who was as well known for her roles in films like \u201cSix Days, Seven Nights\u201d and \u201cDonnie Brasco\u201d as for her personal life, which included a three-year romance with the comedian Ellen DeGeneres, died on Sunday in Los Angeles, nine days after she was in a devastating car accident there. 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