“I drank. I smoked. I did drugs. I had sex with people. I did anything I could to get the shame out of my life.”
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Anne Heche
Anne Celeste Heche was an American actress, known for her roles across a variety of genres in film, television, and theater. She was the recipient of Daytime Emmy, National Board of Review, and GLAAD Media Awards, in addition to nominations for a Tony Award and a Primetime Emmy.
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entertainment · American actress (1969–2022) · television actor · film actor · film director · screenwriter · film producer · stage actor · actor · also Anne Heche, Heche
Born 25 May 1969 · Died 12 August 2022 · Q234610
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2026· 5 entries
“God, and was going to take everyone back to heaven…in a spaceship.”
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Public attention spiked: 16,718 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.1× the usual 5,374, with 0 article edits.
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Page Six: Anne Heche had interview tape dumped in NYC sewer after clash to protect Ellen DeGeneres romance: book
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Lead Stories rated the claim “Epstein files reveal cannibal Ellen DeGeneres ate Anne Heche after murdering her.” Not In Files.
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2025· 1 entry
Yahoo: Anne Heche's Accident, 3 Years Later: What to Know About the Actress' Deadly Car Crash
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2024· 1 entry
Yahoo: Anne Heche's 'insolvent' estate cannot settle debts, actor's son claims in legal docs
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2023· 5 entries
TVLine: Anne Heche Gives Final TV Performance In This Week's All Rise
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Page Six: Anne Heche laid to rest on Mother’s Day
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New York Post: Paul Sorvino, Anne Heche snubbed by Oscars: Stars missing from In Memoriam
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People: Anne Heche Ex James Tupper Admits to 'Difficult Time' Since Her Death as Friends Gather to Honor Her Life
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Page Six: Anne Heche’s 13-year-old son, Atlas, breaks silence 5 months after mom’s death
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2022· 17 entries
The Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner announced the results of Heche's autopsy, stating that she was not impaired by illicit substances at the time of the incident and that no active drugs were fo
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The Guardian: Woman whose house Anne Heche drove into sues estate for $2m
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The Guardian: ‘I did not identify as a lesbian’: Anne Heche reflects on Ellen DeGeneres in upcoming memoir
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The Guardian: Anne Heche was trapped in burning house for 45 minutes after crash
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Heche's older son Homer Heche Laffoon filed a petition in the Los Angeles County probate court claiming that Heche had died intestate, asking that he be named her estate's administrator
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PolitiFact rated the claim “The deaths of U.S. Rep. Jackie Walorski, R-Ind., and actor Anne Heche are suspicious and linked because they “partnered fighting against pedophilia.”” False.
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The Guardian: Anne Heche’s death ruled accidental after fiery car crash
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Lead Stories rated the claim “Anne Heche Murdered Jeffrey Epstein Movie” Crash Killed.
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Politifact: No, Anne Heche wasn’t murdered because she was working on a movie about Epstein
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The Guardian: Anne Heche obituary
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The Guardian: Anne Heche ‘peacefully taken off life support’ after death announcement
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PolitiFact rated the claim “Anne Heche was murdered by the illuminati because she was working on a movie about Jeffrey Epstein.” False.
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The Guardian: Anne Heche: a look back at the actor’s most memorable roles – video obituary
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The Guardian: Anne Heche – a life in pictures
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Died 2022-08-12.
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Heche was critically injured in a high-speed car crash
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Heche caused a sequence of three motor vehicle collisions in the Mar Vista neighborhood of Los Angeles, the final collision being the most serious, with Heche inflicting critical injuries on herself, minor injuries to so
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2021· 1 entry
On her Better Together podcast, she said that she was working on a second memoir tentatively titled Call Me Sane
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2020· 1 entry
Appeared as a contestant on the 29th season of Dancing with the Stars, finishing in 13th place
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2019· 2 entries
Awarded Sarasota Film Festival (2019).
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Received praise for her portrayal as the wife of KKK Klavern leader C
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2018· 2 entries
Tupper and Heche separated in January 2018.
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Joined the television series Chicago P
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2017· 4 entries
Heche debuted as the series lead playing DIA Deputy Director Patricia Campbell in the military/espionage thriller The Brave, which lasted for one season on NBC
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Heche played a supporting role in My Friend Dahmer as Joyce, the mentally ill mother of the teenaged Jeffrey Dahmer (Ross Lynch)
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Heche hosted a weekly radio show on SiriusXM with Jason Ellis entitled Love and Heche
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Said that their album Dreamland was her favorite album and described herself as a "proud aunt"
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2016· 1 entry
Starred in the post-apocalyptic action drama Aftermath, which debuted on Canada's Space network and on United States' Syfy
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2013· 2 entries
Signed a first look deal with Universal Television
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Heche headlined the short-lived NBC sitcom Save Me, in which she starred as a Midwestern housewife who believes that she is channeling God
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2011· 2 entries
Describing her wishes in the event of her death should be treated as her will
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Heche told The Daily Telegraph that she had reconciled with her remaining sister Abigail, but doubted she would be able to repair her relationship with her mother
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2009· 4 entries
Heche told The New York Times:
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Was cast in the HBO dramedy series Hung, in a supporting role as the ex-wife of a financially struggling high school coach-turned-male prostitute, portrayed by Thomas Jane
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She and Tupper had a son, Atlas Heche Tupper, in March 2009.
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In a separate court filing, he said that Heche "exhibited bizarre and delusional behavior for which she refuses to seek professional help." The divorce was finalized in March 2009.
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2007· 1 entry
“exhibited bizarre and delusional behavior for which she refuses to seek professional help.”
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2006· 1 entry
Began work on her own series, Men in Trees, in which she played a New York author who, after finding out her fiancé is cheating on her, moves to a small town in Alaska which happens to be abundant with single men and
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2004· 2 entries
Heche appeared alongside Nicole Kidman and Cameron Bright in the well-received independent drama Birth
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Heche received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the Lifetime movie Gracie's Choice, as well as a Saturn Award nomination for Best Actress for her performance in the CBS
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2002· 2 entries
Heche made her Broadway debut in a production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Proof, in the role of a young woman who has inherited her father's mathematical genius and mental illness
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They had a son, Homer Heche Laffoon, in March 2002.
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2001· 6 entries
Ellen DeGeneres: American Summer, about DeGeneres' 2000 stand-up comedy tour
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Heche obtained a recurring role in the fourth season of the television series Ally McBeal
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Heche directed another anthology film segment, this time part of On the Edge, a Showtime anthology of science fiction stories directed by different actresses
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Heche published a memoir titled Call Me Crazy, in which she alleged extensive sexual abuse by her father
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Heche published a memoir titled Call Me Crazy, which discussed her family and career background, as well as disclosed her history of mental illness and alleged childhood sexual abuse by her father
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“s mother said it was Anne who cut off communication. In her 2001 memoir, Heche wrote that her mother was in denial about the alleged sexual abuse. For example, when she contracted genital herpes as an infant, her mother insisted that it was a diaper rash and refused to take her to a doctor. Heche also wrote that her father repeatedly raped her from the time she was an infant until she was 12. When she was asked,”
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2000· 5 entries
Immediately following her separation from DeGeneres, Heche drove on Interstate 5 from Los Angeles to the San Joaquin Valley
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Awarded GLAAD Stephen F. Kolzak Award (2000).
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Awarded Lucy Award for If These Walls Could Talk 2 (2000).
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When Heche directed a segment of If These Walls Could Talk 2 for HBO
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Heche left DeGeneres for Coleman "Coley" Laffoon, a cameraman whom she met when she hired him as part of the camera crew for the television documentary Ellen DeGeneres: American Summer, which she was directing
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1998· 1 entry
Had starring roles in the romantic adventure Six Days, Seven Nights, the drama-thriller Return to Paradise and Psycho
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1997· 5 entries
Awarded National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress for Wag the Dog (1997).
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With appearances in Donnie Brasco, Volcano, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and Wag the Dog
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Heche starred in what has been described as her breakthrough role in the hit crime drama Donnie Brasco as the wife of the main character, an FBI undercover agent played by Johnny Depp
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And at one point said they would get a civil union if such became legal in Vermont
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For her roles in Donnie Brasco and Wag the Dog
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1996· 1 entry
Heche had the starring role as a college student contemplating an abortion in a segment of the HBO anthology film If These Walls Could Talk, co-starring Jada Pinkett Smith and Cher
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1993· 1 entry
With a small role in The Adventures of Huck Finn
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1992· 1 entry
Awarded Soap Opera Digest Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Daytime Drama for Another World (1992).
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1991· 2 entries
Awarded Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series for Another World (1991).
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And 1992, including "Us & Them", a Generation X slice-of-life piece, and Getting Away With Murder, a stage adaptation of the James M
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1987· 1 entry
At the end of her senior year, Heche was offered another audition, this time for the soap opera Another World
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1977· 1 entry
First in Ventnor City and later Ocean City
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1969· 2 entries
In Aurora, Ohio, the youngest of five children of Donald "Don" Joe Heche and Nancy Heche (née Prickett)
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Born 1969-05-25.
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1965· 1 entry
Heche's only brother, Nathan (1965–1983), died in a car crash at age 18, three months after the death of their father.
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