Anne Heche died following a car accident on August 5 when her vehicle violently crashed into a two-story house in the Mar Vista neighborhood of Los Angeles, “causing structural damage as well as a serious fire”, according to the firefighters who took an hour to contain the fire which broke out following the shock. The actress once made headlines more for her private life than for her talent. This versatile blonde emerged in the late 90s, jumping from the soap opera Another World (where she played twins) to the big screen with ease. As a frustrated wife of an undercover cop Donnie Brascoas a volcanologist escaping the lava in Volcano or as a manipulative presidential adviser in men of influence (three films released in 1997), she brought great intelligence to roles that weren’t fancy on paper. In the remake of Psychosis (1998) by Gus Van Sant, she created a more pixie and lighthearted, more Jean Seberg-like Marion Crane than the edgy one played by Janet Leigh in Hitchcock’s original, while being even more distant at the end of the famous shower sequence. Hollywood sniffs out the ideal little bride by sticking her to Harrison Ford in the romantic comedy Six days, seven nights (1998). But reluctant to play smooth, Heche reveals his relationship with presenter and comedian Ellen DeGeneres (the magazine Esquire will then stupidly title a portrait of her with “The one we lost”). In contrast to DeGeneres’ upward trajectory after their breakup, Hollywood homophobia cost Heche her career with major studios, as did the media coverage of her intimate issues: her battle with mental illness; the publication in 2001 of his autobiography Call Me Crazy (Say I’m crazy), where she confides that she was raped as a child by her father.
Independent cinema and TV series
Anne Heche will continue to work, but in independent cinema or TV series. Already more disturbing as a suspect than the real killer of the winded slasher remember last summer (1997), she was also chilling at hiding secrets in Birth (2004), alongside Nicole Kidman. “I was raised to hide things, I was raised to pretend”, she will say of her childhood. She was touching and hilarious in a handful of episodes ofAlly McBeal, where she played a defendant with Tourette’s Syndrome. “I’ve never been one to tell jokes, I’ve created characters out of the very funnyness of life,” she comments. A burlesque energy that she will let go completely as a painter in love with fighting in the fun Catfight (2016). A hundred roles therefore on the counter in all possible contexts: and always the feeling that she was worth more than what was offered to her, as a cop in the coarse detective series Chicago Police Department to follower of the fox-trot in the show of reality TV Dance with the stars. Two marriages and two children later, her life was revealed to be more peaceful through interviews where she displayed disconcerting honesty and self-mockery. One of his last posthumous roles, completed a week before his accident, will be in the already hyped series The Idol, with The Weeknd and Lily-Rose Depp in the cast. Los Angeles police said in a statement Thursday that they will be conducting blood tests on Anne Heche and that investigators are to follow standard procedure. “present the case to the appropriate judicial authority”.