{"id":46187,"date":"2022-08-15T18:12:53","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T18:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/anne-heche-actress-with-troubled-life-dies-of-injuries-from-car-crash-at-53-chicago-tribune\/"},"modified":"2022-08-15T18:12:53","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T18:12:53","slug":"anne-heche-actress-with-troubled-life-dies-of-injuries-from-car-crash-at-53-chicago-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/anne-heche-actress-with-troubled-life-dies-of-injuries-from-car-crash-at-53-chicago-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"Anne Heche, actress with troubled life, dies of injuries from car crash at 53 \u2013 Chicago Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"
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LOS ANGELES \u2014 Anne Heche, the Emmy-winning film and television actor whose dramatic Hollywood rise in the 1990s and accomplished career contrasted with personal chapters of turmoil, died of injuries from a fiery car crash. She was 53.<\/p>\n

Heche was \u201cpeacefully taken off life support,\u201d spokeswoman Holly Baird said in a statement Sunday night.<\/p>\n

Heche had been on life support at a Los Angeles burn center after suffering a \u201csevere anoxic brain injury,\u201d caused by a lack of oxygen, when her car crashed into a home Aug. 5, according to a statement released Thursday by a representative on behalf of her family and friends.<\/p>\n

She was declared brain-dead Friday, but was kept on life support in case her organs could be donated, an assessment that took nine days. In the US, most organ transplants are done after such a determination.<\/p>\n

A native of Ohio whose family moved around the country, Heche endured an abusive and tragic childhood, one that helped push her into acting as a way of escaping her own life. She showed enough early promise to be offered professional work in high school and first came to prominence on the NBC soap opera \u201cAnother World\u201d from 1987 to 1991, winning a Daytime Emmy Award for the role of twins Marley and Vicky Hudson, who on the show sustained injuries that anticipated Heche’s: Vicky falls into a coma for months after a car crash.<\/p>\n

By the late 1990s Heche was one of the hottest actors in Hollywood, a constant on magazine covers and in big-budget films. In 1997 alone, she played opposite Johnny Depp as his wife in \u201cDonnie Brasco\u201d and Tommy Lee Jones in \u201cVolcano\u201d and was part of the ensemble cast in the original \u201cI Know What You Did Last Summer.\u201d<\/p>\n

The following year, she starred with Ford in \u201cSix Days, Seven Nights\u201d and appeared with Vince Vaughn and Joaquin Phoenix in \u201cReturn to Paradise.\u201d She also played one of cinema’s most famous murder victims, Marion Crane of \u201cPsycho,\u201d in Gus Van Sant’s remake of the Alfred Hitchcock classic, and co-starred in the indie favorite \u201cWalking and Talking.\u201d<\/p>\n

Around the same time, her personal life led to even greater fame, and both personal and professional upheaval. She met Ellen DeGeneres at a the 1997 Vanity Fair Oscar party, in love and began a 3-year relationship that made one of Hollywood’s first openly gay couples. But Heche later said her career was damaged by an industry wary of casting her in leading roles. She would remember advisers opposing her decision to have DeGeneres accompany her to the premiere of \u201cVolcano.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were tapped on the shoulder, put into her limo in the third act and told that we couldn’t have pictures of us taken at the press junket,\u201d Heche said in 2018 on the podcast Irish Goodbye.<\/p>\n

After she and DeGeneres parted, Heche had a public breakdown and would speak candidly of her mental health struggles.<\/p>\n

Heche’s delicately elfin look based on her strength on screen. When she won the National Board of Review’s 1997 best supporting actress award, the board cited the one-two punch of \u201cDonnie Brasco\u201d and the political satire \u201cWag the Dog,\u201d in which Heche portrayed a cynical White House aid and held her own against film great Robert De Niro.<\/p>\n

Heche also called effectively on her apparent fragility. In 2002 she starred on Broadway in the play \u201cProof\u201d as a woman fearful of losing her sanity just like her father, a brilliant professor of mathematics. An Associated Press review praised her \u201ctouching performance, vulnerable yet funny, particularly when Catherine mocks the suspicions about her mental stability.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the fall of 2000, soon after her break-up with DeGeneres, Heche was hospitalized after knocking on the door of a stranger in a rural area near Fresno, California. Authorities said she had appeared shaken and disoriented and spoke incoherently to the residents.<\/p>\n

In a memoir released the following year, \u201cCall Me Crazy,\u201d Heche talked about her lifelong battles. During a 2001 interview with TV journalist Barbara Walters, Heche recounted in painful detail alleged sexual abuse by her father, Donald Heche, who professed to be devoutly religious and died in 1983 from complications of AIDS. Heche described her suffering as so extreme she developed a separate personality and imagined herself descended from another planet.<\/p>\n

In the final days of his life, Heche said, she learned he was secretly gay and that she believed his inability to live honestly fueled his anger and hurtful behavior. Not longer her father died, her brother Nathan \u2014 one of her four siblings \u2014 was killed in a car crash.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’m not crazy. But it’s a crazy life. I was raised in a crazy family and it took 31 years to get the crazy out of me,\u201d Heche told Walters. In an effort to escape the past, \u201cI drank. I smoked. I did drugs. I had sex with people. I did anything I could to get the shame out of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Heche dated Steve Martin in the 1990s, and is widely believed to have inspired the childlike, but ambitious aspiring actor played by Heather Graham in his Hollywood spoof \u201cBowfinger.\u201d She later had a son with camera operator Coleman Laffoon, to whom she was married from 2001 to 2009. She had another son during a relationship with actor James Tupper, her co-star on the TV series \u201cMen In Trees.\u201d<\/p>\n

Heche worked consistently in smaller films, on Broadway and on TV shows in the past two decades. She recently had recurring roles on the network series \u201cChicago PD\u201d and \u201cAll Rise,\u201d and in 2020 she was a contestant on \u201cDancing With the Stars.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LOS ANGELES \u2014 Anne Heche, the Emmy-winning film and television actor whose dramatic Hollywood rise in the 1990s and accomplished career contrasted with personal chapters of turmoil, died of injuries from a fiery car crash. She was 53. Heche was \u201cpeacefully taken off life support,\u201d spokeswoman Holly Baird said in a statement Sunday night. Heche …<\/p>\n

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