Anne Heche | A look back at the actress’ most memorable works of the 90s

Actress Anne Heche died on August 12, at the age of 53. On August 5, Heche was in a serious car accident in Los Angeles, California, and was rushed to hospital with brain damage. After a week in a coma, the actress was pronounced dead today. Many, especially younger ones, may not know or remember her, who has a full 90+ credit lineup as an actress and has also served as a producer, writer and director. The high point of his career came in the 1990s, where he starred alongside big names in Hollywood such as Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones, Johnny Depp, Joaquin Phoenix, Jada Pinkett-Smith, Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro and Dustin Hoffman. .

Anne Heche had several nominations under her belt, the most significant of which was an Emmy Award nomination in 2004. The actress would also be notable for her relationship with presenter Ellen DeGeneres, which began the same year DeGeneres went public as a lesbian. . . At the time, DeGeneres was starring in the sitcom Ellen (1994-1998) and her character on the show would go down in history by coming to terms with her sexuality and becoming the first gay protagonist in a television series in the late 1990s. Anne Heche and Ellen’s relationship would last from 1997 to 2000, and at the time they were one of the hottest couples in Hollywood, especially since they were the most famous gay couple in the world. ‘era.

Anne Heche has also appeared on several high-profile TV shows, such as Ally McBeal, Everwood, Hung, Chicago PD, in addition to Ellen himself, during his time dating the protagonist. His last television work was in the series All Rise (2021-2022).

In honor of this talented and sometimes underrated actress who leaves us today, let’s take a look back at some of her most important works on the big screen during her greatest rise to popularity. Check it out below.

Anne Heche’s first role in a Hollywood blockbuster was in Volcano. By the late 1990s, disaster films had come back with a vengeance following the success of Twister (1996), where scientists battled cinema’s most compelling tornadoes through exquisite special effects. Soon after, it was the turn of volcanoes and meteors, in films like Dante’s Inferno, Deep Impact and Armageddon. Heche starred in the second volcano movie in 1997, with Volcano, and got a big break from his career when he starred alongside Tommy Lee Jones in this 20th Century Fox production. In the film, the actress played Dr. Amy Barnes, the only one who knew how to prevent a volcano from erupting in the middle of Los Angeles.

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The same year as the blockbuster Volcano, Anne Heche participated in a mafia cult film, alongside stars like Al Pacino and Johnny Depp. Based on a true story, the film starred Depp as FBI agent Joe Pistone, who infiltrates a New York mob family, posing as criminal Donnie Brasco, and befriends Lefty. , the right arm of the organization played by the great Al Pacino. Here, Heche accepted a smaller role for the chance to be alongside big figures, and played the worried cop’s wife, sharing many scenes with a Johnny Depp at the height of his career.

Another small participation by Anne Heche in a film that had become very popular at the time, however a very significant participation. The actress only appears in two scenes of this youthful terror that marked the 90s, but they are two moments that help define the plot, in addition to being two extremely edgy and scary parts. Her character, Missy, is one of the suspects of being the film’s killer. After the success of Scream (1996), the same screenwriter Kevin Williamson adapted a famous thriller novel for cinema, turning it into a teen slasher, which became the second piece of the subgenre’s restructuring at the end of the years. 90.

The second most important step in Anne Heche’s career was taken here, in this film by director Barry Levinson. A political satire of the greats, the film puts the actress on equal footing as the third name in the cast, playing alongside heavyweights such as the legendary Robert De Niro and Dustin Hoffman. Although it was released in a few parts of the United States in 1997, its debut on a major circuit across the country and around the world (including Brazil) would even take place in 1998 – where it would compete for two Oscar statuettes. (Best Screenplay and Actor for Hoffmann). Based on a book, it was one of the films that built on the sex scandal involving then-President Bill Clinton. In the plot, the American president is involved in a sex scandal. So a White House aide, the role of Heche, hires an organizer (De Niro) to divert attention. The two then come into contact with a Hollywood mega-producer (Hoffman) to create a fake war and get all the public and media attention for it. This is the film where the actress was able to demonstrate her talent and versatility the most.

After starring in Fox’s blockbuster Volcano, and delivering one of the best (if not the best) performances of his career in New Line’s Mere Coincidence, this old-school matinee adventure can be called a third stop on most important in the career of Anne Heche. . Here, the actress landed the lead role in a $70 million Disney blockbuster (released through subsidiary Touchstone Pictures), directed by the same Ghostbusters’ Ivan Reitman. To top it off, Heche even had the opportunity to share the stage with Indiana Jones himself, star Harrison Ford. In the plot, the actress plays the photographer of one of the biggest fashion magazines in the United States, who is on vacation on a paradise island in Hawaii. So her boss convinces her to fly to another islet for a quick job, but in the process she ends up crashing a plane there with the pilot, played by Ford. So, the two have the adventure of a lifetime, while facing all kinds of dangers and falling in love too.

The same year as the blockbuster Six Days and Seven Nights, Anne Heche would star in one of her darkest films of the era, though she was still part of the wave of her big 90s releases. dark, bare and raw, is in fact the remake of a French production called Force Majeure, from 1989. In the plot, three friends played by Vince Vaughn, Joaquin Phoenix and David Conrad are on vacation in Malaysia. His paradise begins to crumble when local police arrest Phoenix’s character for drug possession – the country’s policy on this type of crime is extremely strict. Thus, two years later, a lawyer, played by Heche, meets the two other friends to tell them the sad news that in eight days their friend will be executed, since he has been sentenced to death. Now they must decide if they are ready to take some of the blame and face three years in prison to save their friend’s life.

Last outstanding work of Anne Heche’s career in the 1990s, it is a very popular production of the time, but also very controversial. Backed by Universal Pictures, as the title suggests, this is the remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s timeless classic. The original, one of the most beloved films in cinematic history, is considered one of the best thrillers and horror movies in the world of cinema – all filmed in black and white. The proposal of the experimental and prestigious Gus Van Sant was to repeat almost all the same angles and framing, adding only color and changing the performers. A courageous and very risky bet, which undoubtedly caused a stir at the time. Reprising the double with fellow actor Vince Vaughn, Heche landed the role of Marion Crane, immortalized by Janet Leigh, as the actor played the iconic Norman Bates. Julianne Moore and Viggo Mortensen round out the cast. If it was not adopted by lovers of the seventh art and the general public like its predecessor, it is an important project in which Anne Heche participated, gained all the confidence of one of the biggest studios of Hollywood and was able to give his own version of an emblematic work.

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