Information about Anne Heche

Why an Anne Heche fan page?

Why this actress rather than another? I have developed two "guy" images to show why I like her work. First, she is like a professional football special teams player -- go for broke, damn the consequences, hold nothing back. Second, she is like a Swiss army knife -- she's versatile and can do any young-woman part well. You see both of these images in I Know What You Did Last Summer, The Juror, Donnie Brasco, Kingfish, O' Pioneers, and every other movie she has done.

Her work isn't stilted or cliched. She is an original. She is the one you call when you want to add life to an otherwise lifeless part.

About Anne Heche

Heche started acting at age 12 in dinner theaters. At 15 she was offered a spot on a daytime soap (ATWT), which she declined in order to finish high school. At 17, immediately after her high school graduation, she was cast to play the Vicky/Marley twins (one "good", the other "bad") in the daytime soap, Another World . In her four years on Another World she won three awards, including a Daytime Emmy in 1991.

Her most recently released film is Psycho, but if you miss it, it won't matter. Instead see Return to Paradise.

She has acted in several plays in the LA area (see "bio" just below), and has had roles in several TV series.

She was born May 25, 1969

Mr. Showbiz has a very good bio! Also see links below.

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Links

Deja News search. There is still interest from people who remember her from Another World. All the gossip shows up here first.

TVNow . Anne Heche on TV. Lists just the shows Anne is in during current month. Comprehensive. Eastern time only.

Mr Showbiz bio and summary information. The latter has her birthplace (Aurora, Ohio) and astrological sign. Also check out Mr. Showbiz search.

An official Anne Heche web site will debut summer 1999

There is a Yahoo Club about Anne

Here's another good Anne fan site.

There is a mailing list about Anne

Find people to reminisce about Heche on Another World soap opera. Also, Another World Home Page is an amazing collection of trivia about the long-running series.

Alta Vista search. Very comprehensive, but there is much repetition.

Or, try Savvysearch for searches using several search engines at once.

TV Guide search. This is a good place to find out about appearances on talk shows. The show times are wildly inaccurate -- I guess we need a reason to buy the mag. You may need to login or register before a search will work.

Filmographies of Anne Heche

Internet Movie Database.

Best Movie Guide

A good source of info on films not yet released.

Miramax (Walking and Talking distributor), Walking and Talking in particular (scroll down the left-side list)

Sony Picture Classics -- both Donnie Brasco and The Juror are (still) hyped here.

Return to Paradise home page

Wag the Dog home page

I Know What You Did Last Summer home page

Volcano. Article/interview about her in this role, Volcano home page. Buried in the Volcano home page used to be a directory of images from the movie; the one of Anne was stunning. I used a compressed version of it on the top page -- and Mr Showbiz used it at the top of their bio page.

Pie in the Sky home page

The Juror - Roger Ebert's review

Rick's Movie Posters (Walking and Talking, Six Days Seven Nights, Return to Paradise, and Psycho)

Anne's sister, Susan Bergman, has written a book, "Anonymity: the Secret Life of an American", about her upbringing that is used as a (unattributed) source in most bios of Anne. There is actually little in it about Anne herself. Amazon.com has it in both hardback and paperback.

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From Bios of "The Juror" cast:

ANNE HECHE (Juliet) recently received rave reviews for her performance in TNT's Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long, along side John Goodman. She counts among her film credits Twist of Fate, Milk Money, The Investigator, I'll Do Anything, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Ambush of Ghosts.

Heche received an Emmy Award for her work on the daytime serial drama Another World. She also appeared in the award-winning Hallmark Hall of Fame production O, Pioneers! Her other credits for television include Attica directed by John Frankenheimer for HBO, Girls in Prison, directed by John McNaughton, for Showtime. She has made guest appearances on Murphy Brown and Indiana Jones Chronicles.

Her theatre work includes the lead in Picasso at the Lapin Agile at the Steppenwolf Theatre, Square One and Us and Them at the Hudson Theatre and Sundays at the Itchy Foot at the Mark Taper Forum.

Heche recently completed filming The Wild Side with Joan Chen and Christopher Walken directed by Donald Cammell, and Pie in the Sky for New Line Cinema.

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Articles about Anne Heche

Premiere, February, 1996 article

As the dream girl who sports a daisy beret in the festival-circuit hit Pie in the Sky, Anne Heche gets her share of adoration. Just listen to the audience sniffle when her hopelessly smitten costar (Josh Charles) says that she's forever ruined the sight of necks for him, because after seeing hers, no other neck compares. If only it were always so. Heche recalls once auditioning for a character with multiple personalities--hardly a stretch after four years playing good girl-bad girl twins on the soap Another World--when her reading was cut short. "They said, 'You can act, but the thing is, we really need a fantasy girl, and you're nobody's fantasy.' " With roles as Pie's pixie and Demi Moore's imperiled pal in The Juror lessening the sting of such experiences, it's clear that regardless the 26-year-old actress has always had an indomitable spirit. Such is the legacy of growing up in a staunch Baptist family in which her father's homosexuality was revealed only after he was bedridden by AIDS. In happier times, the Heches helped start a church in the Ohio town where Anne was born. By twelve, she was singing in a dinner theater to help keep the family solvent. Heche's father died when she was thirteen; her brother was killed in a car accident three months later. "When a life is built around lies, everything starts falling apart,'' she says. "If my father could have said, 'I'm a homosexual and this is not what I want,' then his life would have been different and so would have been ours. But it did teach me to tell the truth. Nothing else is worth anything."

from Pie in the Sky homepage

For Anne Heche, playing the dance-obsessed, free-spirited Amy in PIE IN THE SKY was made easier by the fact that she herself studied and danced with the Los Angeles-based dance company, The Bridge.

Heche will next be seen in The Juror, and has previously appeared in the movies A Simple Twist of Fate, Milk Money, The Adventures of Huck Finn, I'll Do Anything, Ambush of Ghosts, and Walking and Talking, which premieres in competition at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival.

Heche won an Emmy Award for her dual role as twins Vicky and Marley Hudson on the daytime drama, "Another World." Her other television credits include Kingfish: The Huey Long Story, which also starred John Goodman; HBO's award-winning Against the Wall, from director John Frankenheimer; and Showtime's The Investigator and Girls in Prison, which was directed by John McNaughton. She also guest-starred in the Hallmark Hall of Fame production of O' Pioneers!, and has guested on the series "Murphy Brown" and "The Indiana Jones Chronicles," among others. Heche's stage work in Los Angeles has included stints at the Mark Taper Forum and roles at the Hudson Theater in productions of "Square One" and "Us and Them."

From People magazine, chatter column

Anne Heche, 26, who stars in Walking and Talking, a comedy about the romantic travails of two women pals, began her acting career at 12. At 17, she was cast as twins Vicky and Marley on the NBC soap Another World, for which she nabbed a Daytime Emmy in 1991. "Acting is a free ride to explore what some people study years to do in real life," Heche says. "I have played a doctor, a seismologist, a dancer, a psychiatrist, a mother of three--things that I would never be able to do in one lifetime. It's playing, and I get paid to play. I can't see anything more appealing."

February 16, 1996, Reel World column

Anne Heche, 26. Demi Moore's vivacious pal in The Juror was on view in two comedies, playing a nervous bride-to-be in Walking and Talking and an eccentric dancer in Pie in the Sky. Word of Heche's biggest break yet broke just before the festival: She'll play wife to Johnny Depp's undercover FBI agent in Mike Newell's year-end Mafia thriller Donnie Brasco. Of the role, says Heche, "Their love relationship is really involved, because she's not told what is going on with his life. It's a wonderful thing to play."

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TV Series

Ellen, in "hospital" episode (1998)

Another World, as Vicky/Marley (1987-1991). Some video excerpts available from Another World Home Page

Murphy Brown, as Nika (1991)

Indiana Jones Chronicles, episode 14, "Young Indiana Jones and the Scandal of 1920" 4/3/93 [2 hours]. Not available on video.

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Contacts

Unfortunately, I don't know who her agent is now.

Screen Actors Guild (Actor's union)

AFTRA (Actor's union)

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Awards

Anne receives Lucy Award

Friday September 8 8:32 PM ET

BEVERLY HILLS (Reuters) - Actress Anne Heche on Friday, in her first public appearance since breaking up with comedienne Ellen DeGeneres, appeared nervous and stumbled over her words at first, then called former partner a ``genius'' and a ``marvelous woman.'' Heche took to the podium at the Beverly Hills Hilton to accept a Lucy award from Women In Film for her work developing and directing a segment of the HBO movie ``If These Walls Could Talk II,'' a story about a lesbian couple trying to conceive a baby. The film was said to be based on the lives of Heche and DeGeneres when they were a couple. Actress Sharon Stone, who played Heche in the film, stood near Heche as she accepted the award, but DeGeneres, who co-starred with Stone and was co-producer, was absent from the ceremony which attracted some of Hollywood's biggest female stars. At first Heche stumbled over DeGeneres' name, prompting chuckles from the audience but she quickly recovered. ``It means so much to me to be able to have Sharon Stone and Ellen DeGen ...,'' Heche said, suddenly tongue-tied and unable to say DeGeneres' name. Then she placed her hands over her face and shouted: ``Shake it out, baby!'' She started again. ``No matter what you've heard,'' she said, ``I love Ellen DeGeneres. She is a genius ... She is a marvelous woman so dear to my life and I love her.'' Shortly before accepting the award Friday, Heche, looking upbeat dressed in a powder blue jacket, told ``Inside Edition'' that she was moving on from the incident. ``A breakup is an unfortunate thing in peoples' lives but we go on and hope for a happier place,'' she said. Heche added that she was unaware of the incredible media attention that had been trained on her relationship. ``Honestly I don't watch media coverage of myself. I wasn't really affected by it. I live my life and go about what I do.'' When asked about the wandering incident, Heche declined comment. When asked whether she was dating anybody else, she told reporters: ``Oh please.'' The seventh annual Lucy Awards, named for television pioneer and comedienne Lucille Ball, honor women who make a difference in television with an award in the shape of a crystal television set.

Anne to receive an Amnesty International Award

Amnesty International To Honor Ellen DeGeneres, Martin Sheen, Rhino Records President Richard Foos, Senator Barbara Boxer, Anne Heche, Teenager Anthony Colin & Mexican Activist Digna Ochoa Y Placido For Leadership In Struggle For Human Rights

Honorees to be Celebrated at September 16 Event at the Beverly Hilton Hotel

Anne Heche has used her status as one of Hollywood's most visible lesbian celebrity to raise awareness of gay/lesbian rights issues and the discrimination that many gays and lesbians must still fight. "Coming out" at a time early in her career when others, no doubt, advised her to remain silent, made Heche an instant role model for those still struggling with their own decisions to come out to family and friends. Drawing from her own experiences, she has encouraged gays and lesbians to be comfortable with their sexual preference and urged their peers to be accepting. Despite the discrimination she faced, and the cynical media coverage of her highly visible relationship, Heche's career has flourished. By leading an openly gay/lesbian life, Heche has shown that the only difference between a "talented" actress and a "talented gay/lesbian" actress is the label some people place before the noun.

Anne was presented a Creative Integrity Award from the LA Gay & Lesbian Center, at Womens Night '99, for her work volunteering at the Teen Center, it was presented to her on March 6, 1999 by her friend Gillian Anderson, to listen to the Event go to PlanetOut, click on "Special Events", then find "Women's Night '99"

January 13, 1992 Anne Heche, who plays twins Vicky Frame and Marley McKinnon on NBC's "Another World," was named outstanding lead actress in the Soap Opera Digest Awards.

June 28, 1991: Anne Heche of NBC's "Another World" won Emmy as best younger actress.

May 12, 1989 Emmy for Juvenile female, drama series: Anne Heche (Victoria Frame and Marley McKinnon), "Another World," NBC.

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