Profile of Anne Heche on Famous Like Me

Anne Heche (born May 25, 1969) is an American actress.

Heche was a noted thespian even at her high school, Francis Parker, and the soap opera As the World Turns offered her a contract in 1985, when she was only 16. However, both she and her parents felt it best that she finish high school first.

Immediately after her high school graduation, she accepted another soap offer and left for New York City. Heche first became famous by playing the dual roles of Victoria "Vicky" Hudson and Marley Love Hudson on the American soap opera Another World from 1987 to 1991, for which she won a Daytime Emmy Award. She went on to date Steve Martin for two years (she was the basis for the Heather Graham character in Bowfinger). Heche has starred in a number of high-profile films, including Donnie Brasco, Volcano, Wag the Dog, Six Days Seven Nights, and Psycho.

However, most know her for having a long-term lesbian relationship with comedian Ellen DeGeneres, and later also for making many bizarre claims in television interviews and in her autobiography, Call Me Crazy. Heche claimed that she was mentally ill for the first 31 years of her life after being sexually abused by her father (who died of AIDS in 1983). She also claims to have an alter ego that was the daughter of God and half-sibling of Jesus named "Celestia" who has contacts with extraterrestrial life forms. In her book she explains that before her unusual jaunt to Fresno in August of 2000, she was contacted by "God" and told he would walk with her for seven days. Heche is married to the cameraman Coley Laffoon, whom she met while he was filming a comedy special for DeGeneres. On March 2, 2002 Heche gave birth to a son, Homer Heche Laffoon. Her mother, Nancy, is a Christian and psychotherapist, who does not believe that her late husband sexually abused Anne. Nancy tours the nation speaking with ex-gay groups; the two women are reportedly not close. In 1998 Heche's sister Susan Bergman wrote a book about the family and their relationship with their father.

In 2004 she was nominated for a Tony Award for her role in a revival of Twentieth Century; she also returned to regular television acting on the WB drama Everwood, in the contract role of Amanda Hayes.

Her acclaimed work as Vicky and Marley can currently be seen on Soapnet.

Selected filmography

• O' Pioneers! (1992)
• The Juror (1996)
• The Wild Side (1996)
• Walking and Talking (1996)
• Donnie Brasco (1997)
• Volcano (1997)
• I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)
• Wag the Dog (1997)
• Psycho (a 1998 remake of the 1960 Hitchcock classic)
• Return to Paradise (1998)
• Six Days Seven Nights (1998)
• Prozac Nation (2001)
• Birthday earthday (2004)

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