-Biography-
Anne Heche triumphantly returned to Broadway in the Roundabout Theater
stage production of "Twentieth Century" last year. Heche's critically
acclaimed performance, opposite Alec Baldwin, earned her a nomination for
Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Play. In 2002, Anne Heche made her
Broadway debut in the critically acclaimed production of the Tony
Award-winning "Proof." She garnered rave reviews across the board from
theatre critics and the show was extended, making it one of the longest
running non-musical plays in recent history.
On the small screen, Heche recently earned her first primetime Emmy
Award nomination for her portrayal of a drug-addicted mother in the
Lifetime Television, original movie "Gracie's Choice" alongside Diane
Ladd. She can currently be seen in a recurring role on the hit drama "Everwood"
on the WB. The show airs on Monday night's at 9:00 PM. She is also
currently developing a comedy pilot for the WB entitled "True." The show
centers around a young woman whose boyfriend breaks up with her while she
is in labor and is then forced to move back in with her parents.
Heche can also currently be seen opposite Nicole Kidman in New Line
Cinema's "Birth," directed by Jonathan Grazer. The plot line involves a
woman (Kidman) who, to the dismay of her best friend (Heche) and family,
believes that a 10-year old boy is the reincarnation of her deceased
husband. "Birth" was screened at the 2004 Venice Film Festival and the
Deauville Film Festival.
Anne won The National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress
for Barry Levinson's "Wag the Dog," in which she shared the screen with
Robert DeNiro and Dustin Hoffman. She starred with Tommy Lee Jones in
"Volcano" and achieved critical acclaim for her role in "Donnie Brasco."
She co-starred in Gus Van Zant's update of "Psycho" with Vince Vaughn and
Julianne Moore and "Auggie Rose," alongside Jeff Goldblum, which was
screened at the Montreal Film Festival. Last year, Heche co-starred in
the Denzel Washington drama, "John Q" and opposite Christina Ricci in the
Miramax film, "Prozac Nation."
Other film credits include Agnieska Holland's "The Third Miracle"
opposite Ed Harris, "The Juror" with Demi Moore and Alec Baldwin,
"Walking and Talking," "The Wild Side," "Twist of Fate," Pie in the Sky,"
"Milk Money" with Melanie Griffith, "The Investigator" and "I'll Do
Anything."
She made her television debut in the daytime drama "Another World," for
which she garnered a Daytime Emmy Award. Heche appeared in a
multi-episode story arc on Fox's "Ally McBeal" as well as in a segment of
HBO's telefilm, "If These Walls Could Talk," directed by Cher.
She wrote and directed a short feature, "Reaching Normal," for
Showtime's "First Director Series," as well as the second installment of
"If These Walls Could Talk II," starring Sharon Stone and Ellen Degeneres.
In September 2001, Simon & Schuster published Anne's autobiographical
"Call Me Crazy," which appeared on The New York Times and the Los Angeles
Times bestseller lists.
Heche and her family reside in Los Angeles.
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