Anne Heche

Biography: Gaining acting experience in dinner theater, Heche was just 18 when she embarked on a four-year stint on the soap Another World. During her tenure, she snagged a Daytime Emmy and her significantly older costar Richard Burgi as her boyfriend. In 1991, Heche left the show and turned in fine supporting performances in a string of TV-movies and indie features, notably as a neurotic bride in Walking and Talking and a hooker with an eye for the ladies in the underrated 1996 thriller Wild Side. Her role in the latter turned out to be prophetic, because the next year, the budding starlet suddenly found herself in the spotlight when she and her lesbian lover, Ellen DeGeneres, went public as a couple. Except for the 1997 political satire Wag the Dog, which showed off her comedic side, her subsequent projects were duds (the remake of Psycho, the tepid romantic comedy Six Days, Seven Nights). Compounding a negative image were a nasty break up with DeGeneres in 2000, reports of wanderingGaining acting experience in dinner theater, Heche was just 18 when she embarked on a four-year stint on the soap Another World. During her tenure, she snagged a Daytime Emmy and her significantly older costar Richard Burgi as her boyfriend. In 1991, Heche left the show and turned in fine supporting performances in a string of TV-movies and indie features, notably as a neurotic bride in Walking and Talking and a hooker with an eye for the ladies in the underrated 1996 thriller Wild Side. Her role in the latter turned out to be prophetic, because the next year, the budding starlet suddenly found herself in the spotlight when she and her lesbian lover, Ellen DeGeneres, went public as a couple. Except for the 1997 political satire Wag the Dog, which showed off her comedic side, her subsequent projects were duds (the remake of Psycho, the tepid romantic comedy Six Days, Seven Nights). Compounding a negative image were a nasty break up with DeGeneres in 2000, reports of wandering around the backyards of Fresno, CA, and admitted to renaming herself Celestia who spoke a different language and was from another planet. In 2001, the addled Heche tried to get her life in order. She married cameraman Coleman Laffoon, published the autobiography Call Me Crazy (which chronicled her allegedly abusive childhood), and returned to the small screen with a recurring romantic role on Ally McBeal. TV and theater allowed Heche to make a true comeback, and in 2004 she was nominated for a Tony and an Emmy, for her sparkling performance in a revival of Twentieth Century and for her harrowing turn as an abusive mom in the TV-movie Gracie's Choice. After a few more recurring series roles, Heche landed her own quirky show, Men in Trees, in 2006, about a romantically challenged relationship coach stuck in self-imposed exile in Alaska. The show not only revved up her career, it perked up her love life. Midway through the first season, she separated from her husband (later blasting him on Late Show with David Letterman) and eventually moved in with her small-screen Men in Trees flame, James Tupper. After Trees was canceled, Heche took some time off to spend time with Tupper and their son Atlas before joining HBO's Hung. Expand

Anne Heche's Scores

Average career score: 54
Highest Metascore: 72 Nip/Tuck: Season 3
Lowest Metascore: 38 Bad Judge: Season 1
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 13
  2. Negative: 3 out of 13
13 tv reviews
Title: Year: Credit: User score:
tbd Jimmy Kimmel Live: Season 7 Jan 7, 2009 Anne Heche tbd
tbd Late Show with David Letterman: Season 16 Sep 10, 2008 Guest / Anne Heche tbd
tbd Jimmy Kimmel Live: Season 6 Jan 3, 2008 Anne Heche tbd
tbd Men in Trees: Season 2 Oct 12, 2007 Marin Frist / Marin Frist tbd
tbd The View: Season 11 Sep 10, 2007 Anne Heche tbd
tbd Masters of Science Fiction: Season 1 Aug 4, 2007 Martha Von Vogel / Martha Van Vogel tbd
tbd Jimmy Kimmel Live: Season 5 Jan 3, 2007 Anne Heche tbd
tbd Late Show with David Letterman: Season 14 Sep 18, 2006 Guest tbd
48 Men in Trees: Season 1 Sep 12, 2006 Marin Frist / Marin Frist 8.9
tbd Jimmy Kimmel Live: Season 4 Jan 4, 2006 Anne Heche tbd
72 Nip/Tuck: Season 3 Sep 20, 2005 Nikki Morretti 8.0
tbd The View: Season 9 Sep 5, 2005 Anne Heche tbd
tbd Everwood: Season 3 Sep 13, 2004 Amanda Hayes / Amanda Hayes / Amanda Hayes tbd
tbd The View: Season 8 Sep 6, 2004 Herself / Anne Heche tbd
tbd Late Show with David Letterman: Season 12 Aug 25, 2004 Guest tbd
tbd Late Show with David Letterman: Season 11 Oct 13, 2003 Guest tbd
tbd Everwood: Season 2 Sep 15, 2003 Anne Heche tbd
tbd The View: Season 7 Sep 8, 2003 Herself / Anne Heche tbd
61 Everwood: Season 1 Sep 16, 2002 Amanda Hayes tbd
tbd The View: Season 5 Sep 4, 2001 Herself / Anne Heche tbd
tbd Ally McBeal: Season 4 Oct 23, 2000 Melanie West / Melanie West 7.6
tbd Another World: Season 36 May 4, 1999 Victoria Hudson Frame Harrison McKinnon [#3] (1987-1991)/Marley Love Hudson McKinnon [#2] (1987-1991) tbd
tbd The View: Season 4 Jul 28, 1998 Herself tbd
tbd Another World: Season 35 May 4, 1998 Victoria Hudson Frame Harrison McKinnon [#3] (1987-1991)/Marley Love Hudson McKinnon [#2] (1987-1991) tbd
tbd Ellen: Season 5 Sep 24, 1997 Actor tbd
tbd Late Show with David Letterman: Season 5 Sep 1, 1997 Guest tbd
tbd Another World: Season 34 Jul 10, 1997 Victoria Hudson Frame Harrison McKinnon [#3] (1987-1991)/Marley Love Hudson McKinnon [#2] (1987-1991) tbd
tbd Late Show with David Letterman: Season 4 Sep 2, 1996 Guest tbd
tbd Murphy Brown: Season 4 Sep 16, 1991 Actor / Anne Heche 5.8
tbd Another World: Season 27 Oct 29, 1990 Victoria Hudson Frame Harrison McKinnon [#3] (1987-1991)/Marley Love Hudson McKinnon [#2] (1987-1991) tbd