Anne Heche was born Anne Celeste Heche in Aurora, Ohio on May 25, 1969. She grew up with her mother Nancy, her father Donald, and elder siblings Nathan, Abigail, and Susan; her sister Cynthia died two months before Heche was born of a heart problem. Her family relocated about a dozen times throughout Anne’s youth. Her father was a choir director, and Heche noted in a 2001 interview with Larry King, “I don’t think he made much on that a week.”
He stated that he was in the gas and oil sector. And he continued to say it till the day he died. But he was never involved in the gas and oil business.” When Anne was 12, the family moved to New Jersey and lived in a bedroom in the home of a Christian family. Heche worked at a dinner theatre in Swainton to assist her family save enough money to move out.
Anne’s father died of AIDS in March 1983, at the age of 45. Heche claims that her father raped her from the time she was a child until she was 12 years old and that he gave her genital herpes. Three months after Donald’s death, Anne lost her 18-year-old brother, Nathan, when he allegedly fell asleep behind the wheel and crashed into a tree. Heche attended Francis W. Parker School after the family migrated to Chicago.
Anne auditioned for the soap opera “As the World Turns” when she was 16 years old after an agent noticed her in a school play. Despite being offered the job, Heche’s mother preferred that she finish high school first. Just before graduating in 1987, she was given the parts of Vicky Hudson and Marley Love on “Another World.”
Personal Life
Though Anne has had most of her relationships with men (including legendary comedian Steve Martin), she famously dated comedian Ellen DeGeneres from 1997 to August 2000. Years later, Heche explained why her relationship with Ellen did not work out:
“I ended my relationship with her because her ultimate goal was to amass a large sum of money.” My goal was to find love, while hers was, “I want $60 billion.” Good luck, everyone. Our forks will never come together. I hope you enjoy your money since that is why I ended my relationship with you! Do you enjoy sitting on your cash piles? Because, guess what, it takes you exactly where you want to go.”
While working on a documentary on Ellen DeGeneres, Anne met cameraman Coleman “Coley” Laffoon, and they married on September 1, 2001. On March 2, 2002, Heche and Laffoon welcomed their son Homer. They separated in March 2009.
Anne’s manager revealed in December 2008 that she and her “Men in Trees” co-star James Tupper were expecting a child, and their son Atlas was born on March 7, 2009. In 2018, Anne and James split up.
Anne Heche and Tupper paid $899,000 for a 1,440-square-foot Lake Arrowhead property in 2013. They advertised it for $1.25 million in January 2017, then relisted it for $1.05 million in August 2019 after ownership was passed to Anne as a result of the couple’s divorce. They advertised their property in Los Angeles’ Hancock Park neighbourhood for $3.95 million in May 2019, then reduced the asking price to $3.695 million the following month. Anne and James built the four-bedroom, 4,735-square-foot house in 2009. In November 2019, they ultimately accepted $3.165 million.
Career
From 1987 through 1991, Anne was featured in more than 70 episodes of “Another World,” for which she earned a Daytime Emmy. In the early 1990s, she appeared in the television films “O Pioneers!” (1992), “Against the Wall” (1994), and “Girls in Prison” (1994), as well as the feature films “An Ambush of Ghosts” (1993), “The Adventures of Huck Finn” (1993), “I’ll Do Anything” (1994), “A Simple Twist of Fate” (1994), and “Milk Money” (1994).
She featured in the films “Donnie Brasco” (1997), “I Know What You Did Last Summer” (1997), “Wag the Dog” (1997), and “Return to Paradise” (1998) after co-starring with Cher and Demi Moore in the HBO film “If These Walls Could Talk” in 1996. Anne co-starred with Harrison Ford in the 1998 picture “Six Days, Seven Nights,” and that same year she played Marion Crane in Gus Van Sant’s version of Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho.” She appeared as Melanie West on Fox’s “Ally McBeal” in 2001, and she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy for the 2004 TV movie “Gracie’s Choice.”
Heche has starred in the films “Prozac Nation” (2001), “Birth” (2004), “What Love Is” (2007), and “Toxic Skies” (2008), as well as providing the voice of Lois Lane in “Superman: Doomsday” (2007). Anne co-starred alongside Denzel Washington in 2002’s “John Q.,” and from 2004 to 2005, she played Amanda Hayes on The WB’s “Everwood.” She won the lead part in “Men in Trees,” which aired 36 episodes over two seasons in 2006, and then she co-starred with Thomas Jane on “Hung,” starring in all 30 episodes.
Heche appeared uncredited in the Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg comedy “The Other Guys” (2010), then in the films “Rampart” (2011), “That’s What She Said,” (2012), “Black November” (2012), “Arthur Newman” (2012), and “Nothing Left to Fear” (2013), and as Beth Harper on the sitcom “Save Me” in 2013.
She appeared in four episodes of “The Michael J. Fox Show” between 2013 and 2014, and she played Suyin Beifong in “The Legend of Korra” in 2014. In 2016, Anne featured in the films “Opening Night” and “Catfight,” as well as the television picture “A Christmas Carol,” and she portrayed Karen Copeland on the Syfy series “Aftermath.” In the 2017 film “My Friend Dahmer,” she played Joyce Dahmer, the mother of serial murderer Jeffrey Dahmer, and she also played DIA Dep.
Patricia Campbell directed the NBC series “The Brave” from 2017 to 2018. Heche has recently been in the films “Armed Response” (2017), “The Last Word” (2017), “The Best of Enemies” (2019), and “The Vanished” (2020), and she was a recurrent character on NBC’s “Chicago P.D.” from 2018 to 2019.
Heche said in a 2020 interview that her association with Ellen DeGeneres slowed her career. According to her own words:
“The stigma associated with that connection was so severe… I hadn’t done a studio shoot in ten years. “I was let go from a $10 million film deal.”
Heche received a Primetime Emmy nomination in 2004 for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for “Gracie’s Choice,” and she had two Daytime Emmy nods for “Another World,” winning Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series in 1991. She was also nominated for two “Soap Opera Digest” Awards for her work on the show, including Outstanding Female Newcomer: Daytime in 1989 and Outstanding Lead Actress: Daytime in 1992. Anne earned the Stephen F. Kolzak Award at the GLAAD Media Awards in 2000, as well as a Lucy Award at the Women in Film Lucy Awards, and she was honoured with a Career Achievement Award at the 2019 Sarasota Film Festival.
Heche received a National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress for “Donnie Brasco” and “Wag the Dog” in 1997, and “If These Walls Could Talk 2” received an Audience Award for Best Film at the Paris International Lesbian and Feminist Film Festival in 2000.
In 2015, Anne and her co-stars from “The Legend of Korra” won a People’s Choice Voice Acting Award for Best Vocal Ensemble in a Television Series – Action/Drama. The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Films nominated Heche for two Saturn Awards: Best Supporting Actress for “Psycho” in 1999 and Best Actress on Television for “The Dead Will Tell” in 2005.
Anne has also received nominations from the Blockbuster Entertainment Awards (Best Actress – Comedy/Romance for “Six Days Seven Nights”), Csapnivalo Awards (Best Actress in a Leading Role for “Return to Paradise”), “Fangoria” Chainsaw Awards (Best Supporting Actress for “Psycho”), Prism Awards (Performance in a TV Movie or Miniseries for “Gracie’s Choice”), and Satellite Awards.
Net Worth
Anne Heche was an American actress, writer, director, and producer who died in August 2022 with a net worth of $400 thousand. Anne Heche had more than 80 acting credits, including the films “Volcano” (1997), “Six Days, Seven Nights” (1998), “Psycho” (1998), “John Q.” (2002), “Cedar Rapids” (2011), and “My Friend Dahmer” (2017), as well as the television series “Another World” (1987-1991), “Ally McBeal” (2001), “Everwood” (2004-2005), “Save Me” (2013).
Anne starred as Marin Frist on ABC’s “Men in Trees” (2006-2008) and Jessica Haxon on HBO’s “Hung” (2009-2011), and in 2020 she appeared on “Dancing with the Stars,” finishing 13th. Heche co-created and executive produced the NBC sitcom “Bad Judge,” which aired from 2014 to 2015. She wrote and directed the short film “Stripping for Jesus” (1998), the “2000” segment of the TV movie “If These Walls Could Talk 2” (2000), and the “Reaching Normal” segment of the TV film “On the Edge” (2001).
She also directed “Ellen DeGeneres: American Summer Documentary” (2001) and produced “The Dead Will Tell” (2004) and her NBC sitcom “Save Me.” Anne has been on Broadway in “Proof” (2002-2003) and “Twentieth Century” (2004), and she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for “Twentieth Century.” In 2001, Heche wrote “Call Me Crazy: A Memoir.”
Facts
| Net Worth | $400 Thousand |
| Date of Birth | May 25, 1969 – Aug 12, 2022 (53 years old) |
| Place of Birth | Aurora |
| Gender | Female |
| Height | 5 ft 4 in (1.65 m) |
| Profession | Actor, Screenwriter, Television producer, Television Director, Voice Actor |
| Nationality | United States of America |
