Anne Heche Biography

Anne Heche triumphantly returned to Broadway in the Roundabout Theater stage production of "Twentieth Century" last year. Heche's critically acclaimed performance, opposite Alec Baldwin, earned her a nomination for Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Play. In 2002, Anne Heche made her Broadway debut in the critically acclaimed production of the Tony Award-winning "Proof." She garnered rave reviews across the board from theatre critics and the show was extended, making it one of the longest running non-musical plays in recent history.

On the small screen, Heche recently earned her first primetime Emmy Award nomination for her portrayal of a drug-addicted mother in the Lifetime Television, original movie "Gracie's Choice" alongside Diane Ladd. She can currently be seen in a recurring role on the hit drama "Everwood" on the WB. The show airs on Monday night's at 9:00 PM. She is also currently developing a comedy pilot for the WB entitled "True." The show centers around a young woman whose boyfriend breaks up with her while she is in labor and is then forced to move back in with her parents.

Heche can also currently be seen opposite Nicole Kidman in New Line Cinema's "Birth," directed by Jonathan Grazer. The plot line involves a woman (Kidman) who, to the dismay of her best friend (Heche) and family, believes that a 10-year old boy is the reincarnation of her deceased husband. "Birth" was screened at the 2004 Venice Film Festival and the Deauville Film Festival.

Anne won The National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress for Barry Levinson's "Wag the Dog," in which she shared the screen with Robert DeNiro and Dustin Hoffman. She starred with Tommy Lee Jones in "Volcano" and achieved critical acclaim for her role in "Donnie Brasco." She co-starred in Gus Van Zant's update of "Psycho" with Vince Vaughn and Julianne Moore and "Auggie Rose," alongside Jeff Goldblum, which was screened at the Montreal Film Festival. Last year, Heche co-starred in the Denzel Washington drama, "John Q" and opposite Christina Ricci in the Miramax film, "Prozac Nation."

Other film credits include Agnieska Holland's "The Third Miracle" opposite Ed Harris, "The Juror" with Demi Moore and Alec Baldwin, "Walking and Talking," "The Wild Side," "Twist of Fate," Pie in the Sky," "Milk Money" with Melanie Griffith, "The Investigator" and "I'll Do Anything."

She made her television debut in the daytime drama "Another World," for which she garnered a Daytime Emmy Award. Heche appeared in a multi-episode story arc on Fox's "Ally McBeal" as well as in a segment of HBO's telefilm, "If These Walls Could Talk," directed by Cher.

She wrote and directed a short feature, "Reaching Normal," for Showtime's "First Director Series," as well as the second installment of "If These Walls Could Talk II," starring Sharon Stone and Ellen Degeneres.

In September 2001, Simon & Schuster published Anne's autobiographical "Call Me Crazy," which appeared on The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times bestseller lists.

Heche and her family reside in Los Angeles.