12 Best Roles of Anne Heche
Anne Heche, film, television and Broadway actress, passed away last week at the age of 53. The media paid much attention to the tragic circumstances of her death, and many were quick to point out her own guilt in the circumstances. It’s true, but it’s hardly a good thing, and Anne Heche’s health struggles have been discussed for decades – the tabloids have never been shy about discussing her issues, especially at the height of her film career in the late 1990s. She appeared sexually fluid at a time when self-identification as queer was considered a potential career blunder; her relationships with a woman exposed her to homophobia, and her subsequent relationships with men were viewed through the prism of her mental health struggles in a media landscape that downplays bisexuality and views neurodivergence as evidence of weakness.
Even if she slipped off the Hollywood A list, she never stopped working and her performances kept getting better and better. If cinema audiences sometimes lost sight of her, then theater and television audiences never did. Here are a dozen of her best performances.