Anne Heche, who has starred in films like Donnie Brasco, Volcano and Wag the Dog and on TV shows including The man in the tree and hang in a troubled life and career, had her life support cut off Sunday night, her agent announced.
Heche, 53, was in a coma for several days at the Grossman Burn Center at West Hills Hospital and Medical Center (California) after her Mini Cooper ran off the road on August 5 and crashed into a two-family home. floors in the Mar Vista neighborhood of Los Angeles, causing “structural compromise and flare-ups in a massive fire,” the LA Fire Department said.
She was taken out of her car and hospitalized in critical condition, and it took nearly 60 firefighters more than an hour to put out the blaze.
Heche suffered burns and severe traumatic brain injury in the accident. She was later determined to be brain dead – legally dead, according to California law – but was given life support so that OneLegacy, an organ procurement organization, could see if she was fit to donate. Organ or not, her agent, Holly Baird, said.
Baird said Sunday night in a statement: “Anne Heche was unharmed.
A statement released Friday on behalf of her family and friends called Heche “a bright light, a kindest and most joyful soul, a loving mother and faithful friend.” Fort. Anne will be greatly missed, but she lives on thanks to her beautiful sons, her iconic body of work, and her passionate advocacy. Her courage to stand up for her truth, spreading her message of love and acceptance, will continue to have a lasting impact. “
Particularly in 1997, Heche featured as Maggie, the wife of Johnny Depp’s undercover FBI agent, in Mike Newell’s Donnie Brasco; as California seismologist Amy Barnes opposite Tommy Lee Jones and Don Cheadle in the disaster film Volcano; as presidential aide Winifred Ames in Barry Levinson’s black comedy Wag the Dog; and as Missy Egan with Jennifer Love Hewitt and Sarah Michelle Gellar in the movie about the killer I know what you did last summer.
A year later, Heche continued her hot streak, starring in the action adventure Ivan Reitman Six days and seven nights (1998) with Harrison Ford; in a love movie Back to Heaven (1998) with Vince Vaughn and Joaquin Phoenix; and, as Marion Crane, in the Gus Van Sant . remake Mental (1998).
She first rose to fame as a teenager playing twins in the NBC soap opera Another worldwon a Daytime Emmy Award in 1991.
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Heche was the subject of headlines for her romantic relationship with Ellen DeGeneres, whom she dated from 1997 until their split in August 2000. The day after the breakup, she knocked on the door. a stranger in Fresno, California and was taken to the hospital, with authorities noting that she appeared confused.
“I had an imaginary world that I escaped,” she told Barbara Walters in 2001. “I call my alternate personality Celestia. I believe I come from that world. I believe I come from another planet. I think I’ve lost my mind.”
With her 2001 memoir, Call me Crazy, she opened up about mental health struggles and described childhood sexual abuse cases.
The youngest of five children, Anne Celeste Heche was born on May 25, 1969 in Aurora, Ohio. Her family moved often when she was young and lived for a time in the Amish community.
Her first professional performance was in a New Jersey dinner production Music man at the age of 12.
“I get $100 a week, more than anyone else in my family,” she said walkie talkie in 2012. “We all put our money in an envelope in a drawer and save enough to move out in a year.”
In March 1983, her father, Don, died of AIDS. (In a 2001 interview with Apologistshe called him a “sexual deviant” and said he raped her until she was 12.) Three months after his death, her 18-year-old brother, Nathan, was killed in a car accident.
(Her older sister Cynthia died of a heart defect, and another sister, Susan, will die of brain cancer in 2006.)
While acting in a play at the Francis W. Parker School in Chicago, Heche was discovered by an agent and sent to New York to audition. A year later, she took on the dual role of Vicky and Marley Hudson on Another world and stayed with the soap opera until 1991.
She and Steve Martin dated for several years before she met DeGeneres; she said her relationship with the future talk show host prompted Fox to terminate her multimillion-dollar filmmaking deal.
On Friday, DeGeneres Written on Twitter: “This is a sad day. I am sending all my love to Anne’s children, family and friends.
Heche Recurs as Teacher Melanie West on ABC’s Ally McBeal in 2001 and received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for her turn in the 2004 feature film Lifetime . Gracie’s Choice.
She played relationship coach Marin Frist in the ABC romantic comedy television series set in Alaska The man in the tree for two seasons (2006-08) and former beauty queen Jessica Haxon on HBO’s hang for three seasons (2009-11).
Her TV background also includes Everwood, Help me, The Michael J. Fox Show, Dig, Consequence, Brave, Chicago PD and, as attorney for the police union Corinne Cuthbert, All increased.
On the big screen, she was in The Adventures of Huck Finn (1993) – as Mary Jane Wilks – James L. Brooks’ I will do anything (1994), Milk money (1994), jury (1996), Nicole Holofcener Walk and talk (1996 .)), John Q(2002), quick cedar (2011), Opening night (2016), The best enemy (2019) and many more.
Heche received stellar reviews when she made her Broadway debut in 2002 at the age of 33 as a replacement in the movie. Evidence and earned a Tony Award nomination for her 2004 performance alongside Alec Baldwin in the revival of XX century.
In 2020, she competes on ABC’s Dancing with the stars and start hosting a podcast, Better to be togetherwith her good friend Heather Duffy.
Heche will be seen next month in the movie Lifetime with you The girl in room 13, in which she plays a mother searching for her daughter, a human trafficking victim. Director Elisabeth Rohm said the actor had a “phenomenal” performance in it. Rohm added: “We talk every day about our mission” to accurately portray the reality of human trafficking.
Her other upcoming projects listed on IMDb include Wake up with Kathy Baker, Full Ride with Dermot Mulroney, Supercell with Baldwin and Skeet Ulrich and Chasing the nightmare with Graham McTavish.
Heche filmed a recurring season on the upcoming HBO series Idolset in the music industry, but her character was written down when the show was retooled.
Shortly after she and DeGeneres split, she married cinematographer Coleman Laffoon in 2001, and they welcomed a son, Homer, before divorcing in 2007.
She then had another son, Atlas, with longtime partner James Tupper, whom she began dating after they first met. The man in the tree. She and the Canadian actor ended things in 2018.
Homer, 20 years old, told CHEAP In a statement on Friday: “After six days of almost unbelievable sadness, I am left with a deep, wordless sadness. Hopefully my mother is pain free and begins to explore what I like to imagine as her eternal freedom.”
In her interview with Walters, Heche said she wrote her book “to say goodbye, once and for all, to the story of my shame and acceptance of the love of my life choice. . The fact that there are people who hear my story is the icing on the most beautiful cake in the world that I imagine, ‘Happy free, Anne. You have reached the other side. ‘”
