Anne Heche arrives for the 74th Annual Director Guild of America Awards, Saturday, March 12, 2022, at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California. comatose.
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Anne Heche arrives for the 74th Annual Director Guild of America Awards, Saturday, March 12, 2022, at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California. comatose.
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Anne Heche died of traumatic brain injury and severe burns after speeding and crashing her car into a house in the Mar Vista residential area last Friday, August 5. The building caught fire and Heche was dragged into the water. out of the car and into the Grossman Burn Center at West Hills Hospital in Los Angeles.
The 53-year-old Emmy Award-winning actress is known for her roles in 1990s films such as VolcanoGus Van Sant remake Psycho, Donnie Brasco and Six days, seven nights.
Holly Baird, a spokesman for the Heche family, sent NPR a statement Friday afternoon that said: “Although Anne died legally under California law, her heart is still beating and she has not been assisted. life.”
An organ procurement company is working to see if the actress is fit to donate organs, Baird added, and that decision could be made as early as Saturday or as late as Tuesday. next.
Heche started his career playing the role of good and evil twins in the daytime drama Another world, for which she won a Daytime Emmy Award in 1991.
During the 2000s, Heche focused on making independent films and television series. She acted with Nicole Kidman and Cameron Bright in the movie Born; with Jessica Lange and Christina Ricci in the film adaptation of Prozac Nation, Elizabeth Wurtzel’s bestselling book on depression; and in comedy quick cedar with John C. Reilly and Ed Helms. She also starred in the ABC drama The man in the tree.
Heche has appeared as a guest on TV shows like Nip / Tuck and Ally McBeal and starred in a number of Broadway productions, earning a Tony Award nomination for her performance in the remainder of the 1932 comedy. XX century.
In 2020, Heche launches a weekly lifestyle podcast, Better to be togetherwith friend and co-host Heather Duffy and appeared on Dancing with the stars.
Heche became a lesbian icon due to her famous relationship with comedian and TV presenter Ellen DeGeneres in the late 1990s.
Heche and DeGeneres were arguably the most famous openly gay couple in Hollywood at a time when adultery was even less acceptable than it is today. Heche later claimed the romance influenced her career. “I was in a relationship with Ellen DeGeneres for three and a half years and the stigma attached to that relationship was so bad that I was fired from my multi-million dollar photography contract and I didn’t work in a photography studio for 10 years. many years,” Heche said in an episode of Dancing with the stars.
But this relationship paved the way for wider acceptance of single-sex partnerships.
According to Los Angeles Headquarters New York Times Trish Bendix column.
Bendix says that while Heche later had relationships with men – she married Coleman Laffoon in the early 2000s and they had a son together, and more recently was in a relationship with Canadian actor James Tupper , with whom she also has a son – “her influence on lesbian and bisexual visibility cannot and should not be erased.”
In the year 2000, Clean air Host Terry Gross interviewed Heche before her directorial debut in the final episode of If these walls could talk 2, a series of three HBO television series exploring the lives of lesbian couples starring DeGeneres and Sharon Stone. In the interview, Heche said that she wished she was more sensitive about other people’s experiences when she and DeGeneres went public with their relationship.
“What I wish I had known was more about the journeys and struggles of individuals in the gay community or couples in the gay community,” says Heche. “Because I will channel my enthusiasm with the understanding that this is not one’s own story.”
Heche was born in 1969 in Aurora, Ohio, the youngest of five children. She grew up in a Christian fundamentalist family.
She had a challenging childhood. The family moves around a lot. She said that she believes her father, Donald, is a reclusive homosexual; he died in 1983 of HIV.
“He couldn’t seem to settle into a normal job, of course, we found out later, and as I understand it now, it was because he had a different life,” Heche told Gross. . Clean air. “He wants to be with men.”
A few months after her father’s death, Heche’s brother, Nathan, was killed in a car crash at the age of 18.
In her 2001 Memoir Call me Crazyand in later interviews, Heche said her father sexually abused her as a child, causing mental health problems that the actress said she carried with her for decades when mature.
In an interview with the actress Cho Larry King LiveHost Larry King called Heche’s book “one of the most honest, frank, and extraordinary autobiographies ever written by anyone in the show business.”
“I leave a deep sadness without words,” Heche’s son with Lafoon, Homer, wrote in a statement shared with NPR via Baird. “Hopefully my mother is pain free and begins to discover what I wanted to imagine as her eternal freedom.”
