![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Director, Screenwriter, Actor Born: May 25, 1969 Biography:An actress who is known as much -- if not more -- for her offscreen life as for her onscreen performances, "Anne Heche" had the distinction of being one of Hollywood's most surprising success stories and also one half of its most famous lesbian couple. Heche's hyper-publicized former relationship with actress and comedienne "Ellen DeGeneres" was particularly notable -- and refreshing -- for its degree of openness, something that made the two women veritable poster children for gay pride in Hollywood and elsewhere.
Born in the small town of Aurora, OH, on May 25, 1969, Heche was raised as part of a fundamentalist Christian family. Her father, an itinerant choir director, was constantly running from both debt and his immediate family; the former was due to his lack of a steady job and the latter to his secret life as a gay man. Both conditions resulted in a tumultuous childhood for Heche, who began... Full Biography
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