Biography
American actress who began her career at 17 in New York, cast in the
soap "Another World," where she played twins for four years,
staying through 1991 and earning an Emmy Award for her work in the
process. After leaving the soap, Heche (pronounced "Haytch") did
an occasional TV show but stayed mostly in the shadows. In 1996, she had a
breakthrough film role in "Walking and Talking," a well-received
independent. The same year, she had a supporting role as Demi Moore's best
friend in "The Juror." Her exposure increased exponentially when
she appeared in "Wag the Dog" and as Johnny Depp's wife in the
highly acclaimed "Donnie Brasco," 1997.
Heche was born in a small town and raised as a fundamentalist
Christian, though stability was lacking due to 11 moves by the time she
was 12. The youngest of four kids, she is the daughter of a Baptist
minister who died of complications from AIDS in 1983 at age 50. He
disclosed his homosexuality to his family prior to his death. Anne was 13
at the time and later said, "I put a very high premium on honesty.
What I learned from my father's death is that if you don't accept your
sexuality, it will kill you." She is estranged from her mother since
disclosing her relationship with Ellen DeGeneres. Her brother died in a
car accident at age 18, three months after the death of their father and
one sister, Susan Bergman, is an editor and author of a memoir about their
dad and his "secret" life, "Anonymity," 1998.
In the late '80s Anne was involved with Richard Burgi, her co-star in
"Another World." She and Steve Martin were a couple from
1993-95, but the relationship that earned the most play from the media was
her affair with comedienne Ellen DeGeneres. They met on Oscar night in
March 1997. Heche said, "I became oblivious to everything the second
I saw Ellen. I'd never been attracted to a woman before. I mean, I loved
women, but not at all physically. Within seconds of meeting Ellen, I had
my hands on her." When Ellen came out of the closet as a lesbian on
her show at the episode on 4/30/1997, Heche was a loyal backup. Their
affection and openness made the two women veritable poster-girls for gay
pride in Hollywood and elsewhere. They began appearing together in public,
a move which was perhaps riskier for Heche, as she said she had not
crossed that sexual gender-line before falling in love with DeGeneres. The
decision to go public made her agents aghast and they said it would be the
death of her career. She fired them and took the media attention with a
great show of serenity. Harrison Ford supported her as his co-star in the
romantic comedy "Six Days Seven Nights."
Heche went on to give another strong performance as a lawyer in
"Return to Paradise" and then landed the much-sought-after role
in the 1998 re-make of "Psycho." The film did not do well, nor
did the drama, "The Third Miracle." She made her directorial
debut with "Reaching Normal" in 1999, and the following year
wrote and directed a segment of the HBO drama "If These Walls Could
Talk 2", a segment about a lesbian couple willing to do anything to
have a baby, starring Sharon Stone and DeGeneres.
The summer of 2000 in San Jose, while Heche had directed a documentary
about DeGeneres' return to standup comedy, 26-year-old cameraman Coleman
Laffoon was part of the crew. There was a strange incident on 8/19/2000
when Heche mysteriously wandered up to the rural Fresno home of strangers
and asked to take a shower (she was briefly hospitalized and released). It
was apparently a segment of trauma in the breakup of her relationship with
DeGeneres after 3 1/2 years together. Laffoon was on hand to be
supportive, and they became inseparable. On 5/25/2001, he asked her to be
his partner for life and she accepted. They married on 9/01/2001 in Los
Angeles with about 75 friends and relatives in attendance. They took their
honeymoon after Heche completed a ten-city book tour to promote her
autobiography, "Call Me Crazy."
In her memoir, Heche reveals that she spent the first 31 years of her
life suffering from mental illness that she says was triggered by sexual
abuse by her father. The term she used was "insane," explaining
that she believed she was two people. One was Anne Heche and the other was
Celestia, who was from another planet and spoke directly to God in a
different language. As for the present, "I'm here," says Heche.
"I could not be more elated with my life."
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