Anne Heche

2022 - 8 - 12

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Anne Heche not expected to survive after fiery Los Angeles crash (Los Angeles Times)

Anne Heche has "a severe anoxic brain injury" and is on life support, a statement on behalf of her friends and family said.

The former talk show host was among some Hollywood figures reacting to Heche’s car crash. Mar Vista resident David Manpearl said Heche’s vehicle crashed through the residence and was lodged in a wall in the back. On Friday, Heche was hospitalized with severe burns after crashing her car into a home in L.A.'s Mar Vista neighborhood and causing it to catch fire. Heche’s Friday crash wasn’t her first instance of erratic behavior in public. She was also seen speeding on another street in the West Los Angeles neighborhood. “More than her extraordinary talent, she saw spreading kindness and joy as her life’s work — especially moving the needle for acceptance of who you love.

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Anne Heche 'not expected to survive' car crash, actor's family says (The Guardian)

The US actor will be taken off life support after it is determined if her organs are viable for donation, following a severe collision that left her car in ...

I know they didn’t get her out of the car until the fire was pretty much put out.” “More than her extraordinary talent, she saw spreading kindness and joy as her life’s work — especially moving the needle for acceptance of who you love. She is not expected to survive.”

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Anne Heche is 'not expected to survive,' family says in statement | CNN (CNN)

Anne Heche, who remains hospitalized after crashing her vehicle into a Los Angeles residence last week, is "not expected to survive," according to a ...

Her ex and former "Men in Trees" co-star James Tupper, with whom she shares one of her two sons, wrote on Instagram "More than her extraordinary talent, she saw spreading kindness and joy as her life's work -- especially moving the needle for acceptance of who you love," the statement read. She is not expected to survive," the statement read.

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Anne Heche 'not expected to survive' after horror crash (New Zealand Herald)

Heche was involved in a fiery car crash into a Los Angeles home that left her severely injured and in a coma. Heche's family released a statement, saying she's ...

Heche has worked consistently in smaller films, on Broadway, and on TV shows in the past two decades. She had another son during a relationship with actor James Tupper, her co-star on the TV series Men In Trees. "More than her extraordinary talent, she saw spreading kindness and joy as her life's work - especially moving the needle for acceptance of who you love. The two had a son together. She is not expected to survive. Heche was involved in a fiery car crash into a Los Angeles home that left her severely injured and in a coma.

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Anne Heche in coma as friends pray for her survival (1 News)

Friends of the 53-year-old say they fear for her condition due to suspected smoke inhalation after her smash of up to 90mph in Los Angeles last Friday.

“She needs everyone’s prayers. A source added to DailyMail.com on Friday: “She will be in a coma for a long time and there are fears she could die because her lungs don’t work on their own.” Anne Heche’s friends are praying she survives and say she is in a coma.

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Anne Heche crash now being investigated as felony, police say - CNN (CNN International)

Actress Anne Heche is now being investigated for felony DUI after crashing her car into a Los Angeles area home, which then caught on fire last week, ...

"She has a significant pulmonary injury requiring mechanical ventilation and burns that require surgical intervention. She is currently being treated at the Grossman Burn Center," a spokesperson for Heche told CNN in a statement Monday. "Her blood showed signs of impairment and that is why it is now being investigated as a felony traffic collision," Lee said.

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Anne Heche: US actress not expected to survive, says family (BBC News)

US actress Anne Heche is not expected to survive, her family has said, after a car crash earlier this week that left her vehicle engulfed in flames. She remains in a coma and had "a severe anoxic brain injury," they said - when the brain is deprived of ...

She is being cared for at the Grossman Burn Center at West Hills hospital and is on life support to determine whether her organs are viable for donation, her family said in their statement. She remains in a coma and had "a severe anoxic brain injury," they said - when the brain is deprived of oxygen. US actress Anne Heche is not expected to survive, her family has said, after a car crash earlier this week that left her vehicle engulfed in flames.

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Anne Heche 'not expected to survive' after fiery crash, rep says (The Washington Post)

Actress Anne Heche, who last week crashed her car into a Los Angeles home, is not expected to survive the injuries she sustained in the collision, ...

A representative told news outlets days later that the actress had gone into a coma. TMZ reported that Heche crashed into an apartment garage before peeling off down the street, citing a video that was not time stamped. Heche, 53, was hospitalized last Friday after she drove her Mini Cooper into a house in Los Angeles’s Mar Vista neighborhood, causing the vehicle and the house to erupt in flames.

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Anne Heche survival 'not expected' (1 News)

The actor, who is in a coma, is being kept on life support for possible organ donation, according to a statement from family and friends.

“Anne had a huge heart and touched everyone she met with her generous spirit. Such an injury is caused by a sustained lack of oxygen to the brain. “It has long been her choice to donate her organs and she is being kept on life support to determine if any are viable."

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Anne Heche 'not expected to survive' car crash, reps say (Stuff.co.nz)

Unfortunately, due to her accident, Anne Heche suffered a severe anoxic brain injury and remains in a coma, in critical condition. She is not expected to ...

“More than her extraordinary talent, she saw spreading kindness and joy as her life’s work – especially moving the needle for acceptance of who you love. She is not expected to survive,” the rep said. Anne Heche is “not expected to survive” the car crash she was involved in one week ago.

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Anne Heche: US actress not expected to survive, says family (RNZ)

Her family says she suffered a severe brain injury when her car crashed into a house.

She is being cared for at the Grossman Burn Center at West Hills hospital and is on life support to determine whether her organs are viable for donation, her family said in their statement. According to the LA Fire Department, Heche's vehicle "erupted in heavy fire" after it was driven 9.1m into a two-storey home, leaving the property "uninhabitable". She remains in a coma and had "a severe anoxic brain injury," they said - when the brain is deprived of oxygen.

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Anne Heche is suffering from an anoxic brain injury. How does that ... (NPR)

Actress Anne Heche, 53, has been hospitalized since last Friday, when she was allegedly speeding in her blue Mini Cooper and crashed into two homes.

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Anne Heche Is 'Not Expected to Survive,' Representative Says (The New York Times)

The actress, 53, has been in a coma since shortly after the car she was in crashed into a Los Angeles home last week, her publicist said in a statement.

The crash started a fire that took 59 firefighters more than an hour to extinguish, the Los Angeles Fire Department said. She suffered a severe anoxic brain injury and was being treated at the Grossman Burn Center at West Hills Hospital, the family statement said. The actress Anne Heche remained in a coma and was not expected to survive the injuries she sustained in a car crash last week, according to a statement that her publicist released Thursday night on behalf of her family and friends.

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Anne Heche is suffering from an anoxic brain injury. How does that ... (WJCT NEWS)

Actress Anne Heche, 53, has been hospitalized since last Friday, when she was allegedly speeding in her blue Mini Cooper and crashed into two homes.

Brain injuries do not necessarily originate in the brain. Anoxic brain injuries happen when all oxygen is cut off from the brain. Causes of brain injuries

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Anne Heche “Not Expected To Survive” After Severe Brain Injury ... (Deadline)

Anne Heche is "not expected to survive" following a horrific crash which left the Emmy-winning actor with a severe brain injury.

“This project is important to Anne, along with each and every one of us,” Winter said.” We all sought to make a film that would bring attention to this appalling issue of human sex trafficking. A blood test was performed after Heche was taken to the hospital. She is not expected to survive,” a rep for Heche’s family and friends told Deadline. Heche was reportedly able to communicate at the time of her rescue but lost consciousness shortly thereafter and never regained it. “Anne had a huge heart and touched everyone she met with her generous spirit. She is being kept on a ventilator until it’s determined whether any organs not damaged in the crash and subsequent fire can be donated.

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Anne Heche Is “Not Expected to Survive” Tragic Car Accident (Vanity Fair)

Heche's family and friends say that she's suffered “a severe anoxic brain injury” and has not regained consciousness since the crash.

Per the Los Angeles Fire Department, Heche’s vehicle was traveling at a high speed and “burst into flames and came to rest 30 feet inside the two-story home.” It took 59 firefighters more than an hour to subdue the blaze and rescue Heche, who was able to communicate at the time of her rescue but slipped into a coma shortly after. On August 5, Heche crashed her car into a residence in the Mar Vista neighborhood of Los Angeles, setting both her car and the home on fire. “Unfortunately, due to her accident, Anne suffered a severe anoxic brain injury and remains in a coma, in critical condition.

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Actor Anne Heche dies a week after car crash, friend says (The Guardian)

The 53-year-od US actor, who starred in films including Donnie Brasco, Catfight and the remake of Psycho, did not regain consciousness after a car crash on ...

The occupant of the house called the local sheriff after Heche showed no sign of leaving; the actor was briefly admitted to a psychiatric unit and admitted that she had taken ecstasy. Heche also claimed that her father repeatedly raped her as a child, leading to her contracting genital herpes when young. But the actor shortly afterwards lost consciousness and on 8 August representatives posted an update, saying Heche was in an “extreme critical condition” and had slipped into a coma. Also in that same year, Heche began a high-profile relationship with sitcom star and talkshow host Ellen DeGeneres, shortly after the comedian came out as gay. “She deserves to be remembered with compassion.” Hopefully my mom is free from pain and beginning to explore what I like to imagine as her eternal freedom.”

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Anne Heche dies a week after horror car crash in LA, aged 53 (New Zealand Herald)

"Unfortunately, due to her accident, Anne suffered a severe anoxic brain injury and remains in a coma in critical condition," Heche's family said in a statement ...

"Anne had a huge heart and touched everyone she met with her generous spirit. "Unfortunately, due to her accident, Anne suffered a severe anoxic brain injury and remains in a coma in critical condition," Heche's family said in a statement, obtained by People. "She is not expected to survive." The US actress had been in a coma since the accident on August 6, with her representative saying yesterday she was being kept on life support to "determine if her organs are viable".

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Anne Heche Dies at 53 (Vanity Fair)

The Emmy and Tony-nominated actor died of injuries sustained in a high-speed car crash.

I was raised to pretend. “I was raised to hide. I think I was insane.” I had never seen anybody so lit up.” I called my other personality Celestia. I believed I was from another planet. I think you’re such a talented person and I hope everything is OK; I hope you come through this.”

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Anne Heche: US actress dies after life support turned off (RNZ)

American actress Anne Heche has died after her life support was turned off, a week after her fiery car crash in Los Angeles, the Daily Mail has reported.

According to the LA Fire Department, Heche's vehicle "erupted in heavy fire" after it was driven 9.1m into a two-storey home, leaving the property "uninhabitable". The 53-year-old was in a coma after her car burst into flames when it smashed into a house in West Los Angeles. American actress Anne Heche has died after her life support was turned off, a week after her fiery car crash in Los Angeles, the Daily Mail has reported.

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American actress Anne Heche declared brain dead (Stuff.co.nz)

Heche remains on life support and under evaluation for organ donation following a car crash that left her with serious injuries.

In 1997 alone, she played opposite Johnny Depp as his wife in Donnie Brasco and Tommy Lee Jones in Volcano and was part of the ensemble cast in the original I Know What You Did Last Summer. She won a Daytime Emmy Award for the role of twins Marley and Vicky. They were a couple from 1997 to 2000.

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Anne Heche dies a week after horror car crash in LA, aged 53 (New Zealand Herald)

The US actress had been in a coma since the accident on August 6.

"Anne had a huge heart and touched everyone she met with her generous spirit. "Unfortunately, due to her accident, Anne suffered a severe anoxic brain injury and remains in a coma in critical condition," Heche's family said in a statement, obtained by People. "She is not expected to survive." The US actress had been in a coma since the accident on August 6, with her representative saying yesterday she was being kept on life support to "determine if her organs are viable".

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Anne Heche legally dead at 53, a week after a fiery car crash (NPR)

The actress, best known for her roles in 'Donnie Brasco' and the 1998 'Psycho' remake, leaves behind two sons.

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'A sad day': Ellen DeGeneres leads tributes after death of Anne Heche (New Zealand Herald)

The actress's sons have issued a statement mourning their mother.

I am grateful for their love, as I am for the support of my Dad, Coley, and my step-mom Alexi, who continue to be my rocks during this time. DeGeneres and Heche began dating in 1997, at a time when both were reaching the height of their careers. They officially split in 2007, and Heche began dating her Men in Trees co-star James Tupper. The pixellated snap shows Heche softly smiling, head tilted. But after they split in 2000, Heche began dating Coleman Laffoon, a cameraman who had worked on DeGeneres' recent comedy tour. "This is a sad day.

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Anne Heche: US actress dies after car crash a week ago (RNZ)

US actress Anne Heche is legally dead but will remain on life support to allow for a possible organ donation, her representative has said.

Three months after her father's death, her brother was killed in a car crash, which she believed was suicide. The couple split in 2018. In 2001, Heche married "Coley" Laffoon, a cameraman whom she met on DeGeneres' stand-up tour, and they had a son, before divorcing nearly six years later. The two-storey home she crashed into was left "uninhabitable". In interviews promoting the book, she said the abuse caused her to be "insane" for the first 31 years of her life and that she had created a fantasy world called the "Fourth Dimension" to make herself feel safe. "Her bravery for always standing in her truth, spreading her message of love and acceptance, will continue to have a lasting impact."

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Actor Anne Heche dies a week after car crash (1 News)

The representative told TMZ Heche was "brain dead", which under California law is the definition of death. ADVERTISEMENT. It was revealed on Friday ( ...

"We have lost a bright light, a kind and most joyful soul, a loving mother, and a loyal friend. Anne will be deeply missed but she lives on through her beautiful sons, her iconic body of work, and her passionate advocacy. Police are investigating Heche for driving under the influence.

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'Deep, wordless sadness' for Anne Heche, declared brain dead after ... (Stuff.co.nz)

Actor Anne Heche has been declared dead a week after a car crash, but her heart is still beating on life support, in the hope her organs can be donated.

In 1997 alone, she played opposite Johnny Depp as his wife in Donnie Brasco and Tommy Lee Jones in Volcano and was part of the ensemble cast in the original I Know What You Did Last Summer. She won a Daytime Emmy Award for the role of twins Marley and Vicky. Actor Anne Heche has been declared dead a week after a car crash, but her heart is still beating on life support, in the hope her organs can be donated.

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Actor Anne Heche dies at 53 from injuries in L.A. car crash (Los Angeles Times)

Actor Anne Heche dies after suffering significant burns and a severe brain injury last week when she crashed her car into a Mar Vista home.

In June 2022, she also landed a starring role in Lifetime’s upcoming film “Girl in Room 13,” directed by Elisabeth Röhm. As of Thursday, the film was still on track for its September release. In 2020 she was a contestant on the 29th season of “Dancing With the Stars,” being voted off third among the contestants. “I created characters out of the funniness of life,” Heche told The Times in 2010, speaking about her process. In 2017, Heche appeared in the film’ “My Friend Dahmer” and took up a lead role for the NBC series “The Brave.” In 2018, she and Tupper split. “Oh and Heche are great here, giving performances entirely lacking in vanity and self-consciousness,” The Times’ “Catfight” review said. Throughout the ’90s, she appeared in “An Ambush of Ghosts,” “The Adventures of Huck Finn,” “I’ll Do Anything” and others. I hope the fact that I talk about these things in my life might help other people find peace in their own conflicts,” she told The Times in 2004. She eventually became a screen staple, acting alongside Cher, Demi Moore and Alec Baldwin. In 1996, she appeared in Nicole Holofcener’s Sundance film “Walking and Talking,” then in Mike Newell’s “Donnie Brasco” with Johnny Depp a year later. After graduating in 1987, Heche debuted as Vicky Hudson and Marley Love in NBC’s “Another World.” “More than her extraordinary talent, she saw spreading kindness and joy as her life’s work — especially moving the needle for acceptance of who you love. Before Heche died, the LAPD was planning to administer a second blood test to rule out hospital treatments as the reason for narcotics showing up in her initial screen. As of Friday, Heche was legally dead, but her heart was still beating and her body was kept on life support to preserve viable organs for possible donation.

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Anne Heche legally declared dead following car crash in Los ... (ABC News)

Anne Heche remains on life support and under evaluation for organ donation after a car crash that led to her brain death, a representative for the actor ...

I will miss her terribly and cherish all the beautiful memories we have shared." Sending tremendous love and support to her family." "I'm sending Anne's children, family and friends all of my love." "It has long been her choice to donate her organs," said a statement from her family and friends issued on Thursday. Rest in peace, Mom. I love you." "After six days of almost unbelievable emotional swings, I am left with a deep, wordless sadness.

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Ellen leads tributes to Anne Heche after car crash leads to death (1 News)

Actor Anne Heche has died a week after she was critically injured in a car crash. Anne Heche. (Source: Associated Press).

Police are investigating Heche for driving under the influence. "We have lost a bright light, a kind and most joyful soul, a loving mother, and a loyal friend. Anne will be deeply missed but she lives on through her beautiful sons, her iconic body of work, and her passionate advocacy.

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Anne Heche – a life in pictures (The Guardian)

Heche came to prominence playing twin sisters Vicky Hudson and Marley Love in the TV soap opera Another World from 1987–1991, where she played opposite Russell ...

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Anne Heche Onscreen: Wily and Funny but Also Unnerving (The New York Times)

Hollywood tried to slot her into cookie-cutter blockbusters, sometimes successfully. She was at her best playing competent women in extreme situations.

There was a chance that Heche was on the verge of yet another career revival. “Birth” is an otherworldly piece, and it’s almost as if Glazer uses Heche to further unsettle the audience, a task she takes on with vigor. She never stopped working, but the Anne Heche offscreen soon started to overshadow the Anne Heche on. In Heche, you can see Laura bristling at the restraints that come with the comforts of a close friendship and good relationship. She was faced with mockery that followed her for the rest of her career. In some ways, she operated in the most mainstream arenas of the entertainment industry.

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Anne Heche: Her Most Memorable Roles, From 'Donnie Brasco' to ... (Collider.com)

The controversial actress passed away at age 53 on Friday. We take a look back at her most memorable film and TV appearances. Anne Heche-Six Days Seven Nights.

Tim Lippe (Ed Helms) was going to be somebody, but then he wasn't. He has spent his whole life in Brown Valley, Wisconsin, selling insurance. Amelia (Catherine Keener) and Laura (Heche) are childhood best friends. When the weather changes, the plane crashes on an uninhabited island, forcing the two to support one another in order to survive. During his investigation, he meets Roxane (Heche), the daughter of O'Regan, who was abandoned by her mother at 16 and cannot look past it to see the good. Two years later, lawyer Beth (Heche) tracks down the two and delivers a bombshell: a few days after they left the island, police raided their camp to find large quantities of hash, leaving Lewis to take the blame, and in eight days he is set to be put to death. Heche appears in the big-budget disaster flick Volcano (not to be confused with Dante's Peak, which came out the same time) as Dr. Amy Barnes, a seismologist who warns the people of downtown Los Angeles that an underground volcano is forming.

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Anne Heche Was a Compelling Study in Contrasts (TIME)

The star of movies like Walking and Talking and Six Days Seven Nights died following a series of car crashes in Los Angeles.

Over the years, some have taken pleasure in slugging away at the easy target of Heche’s mental-health and substance-abuse issues. Better to remember Heche as a loopy screwball heroine marooned on an island with a gruff hottie pilot. She was a compelling study in contrasts, as adept at sly comedy as she was at dramatic roles, and watching her was often a source of pleasure and wonder.

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Anne Heche's best roles: A great actor, even in bad movies (Los Angeles Times)

Anne Heche, who died Friday at age 53, was undervalued by Hollywood but did her best work in dramas like 'Walking and Talking,' 'Birth' and 'The Third ...

Given the still-rampant Hollywood homophobia of the early 2000s, it was and still is hard to refute the truth of her claim. As it happens, “Another World” was one of a few soap operas on semi-regular home rotation when I was growing up, around the time that Heche’s stellar performance won a 1991 Daytime Emmy for younger actress in a drama series. Heche kept working in movies, sometimes to standout effect; she was terrifically moving in the independent comedy “Cedar Rapids” and the tense dirty-cop thriller “Rampart.” But the movies gave her less and less back than she gave them, and she found more receptive audiences in theater and television. Like all idle gossip, it threatens to flatten the deeper truth of a human life and obscure the work of a remarkable career. Although widely panned, the movie fared better commercially than her other two big 1998 releases, the prison drama “Return to Paradise” and Gus Van Sant’s much-maligned “Psycho” (both of which, as it happens, co-starred Vince Vaughn). It pretty much was, though I haven’t forgotten the strange, prickly intensity of Heche’s performance as the doomed Marion Crane, which was all the more fascinating for short-circuiting our easy sympathy for one of the most heartbreakingly sympathetic characters in movie history. Another example, and still one of the best, was “Walking and Talking” (1996), the first of writer-director Nicole Holofcener’s many movies about smart, spiky, marvelously uncooperative women. It underscores one of Heche’s foremost strengths as an actor, namely her refusal of the obvious, her willingness to dig out the hidden, unrealized possibilities of a scene. The movies themselves didn’t always know what to do with Heche, who died Friday at the age of 53, and so it was thrilling to encounter the ones that did. As a teenage Hitchcock enthusiast, I eagerly sought out Van Sant’s “Psycho” in theaters, my curiosity about a shot-for-shot remake of one of my favorite films overpowering my suspicion that the result would be as dreadful as its reviews suggested. It’s not immediately clear what connection Clara has to this puzzler of a story, about a woman (Nicole Kidman) whose life is rocked by the apparent reincarnation of her late husband as a 10-year-old boy. More than the other characters, Clara is willing to take seriously — and yes, explore — the story’s outrageous premise.

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US police end investigation into Anne Heche car crash (Stuff.co.nz)

Heche is brain dead and on life support, pending evaluation for organ donation.

"This is a sad day. "Any information or records that have been requested prior to this turn of events will still be collected as they arrive as a matter of formalities and included in the overall case. * Anne Heche had cocaine in her system when she crashed her car into Los Angeles home

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Anne Heche Remembered By 'Catfight' Director as 'a Brilliant ... (IndieWire)

Onur Tukel, who directed Heche opposite Sandra Oh in the 2016 comedy, recalls her intense commitment on set.

We were together for two weeks on the set of “Catfight.” Throughout the shoot, there was laughter and stories and cigarettes and cocktails and it all felt like a grand celebration. One night while we were partying in LA, she told me there was no reality, that this was all a simulation or it was predestined or something to that effect. But I do know she was a brilliant actress and human being. When she got up and walked away, I called “cut” and the crew exhaled cathartically. And that was what it always felt like hanging out with Annie. We stayed in touch and had plans to make other things together, but it wasn’t to be. And certainly, you’ve heard the stories: how her father sexually abused her and later succumbed to AIDS, how she was raised in a cult, how her brother died by suicide, her exile from Hollywood, her strange ecstasy trip that landed her in a stranger’s home. I walked up to Annie after the take and the tears were still there. The DP, Zoe White, set up the shot and with my producer Gigi Graff by my side, I called “action.” She was a beautiful inferno. Her life was certainly Shakespearean. I could recount the tragedies and dramas that have plagued her life but you can learn that on your own. I asked her what was going through her mind as she punched that bag. It’s the stuff of legend.

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Anne Heche remains on life support to save organs (New Zealand Herald)

The actress was declared brain dead after a horrific car crash in California.

In the late 1990s she became one of the hottest actors in Hollywood, a constant on magazine covers and in big-budget films. She won a Daytime Emmy Award for the role of twins Marley and Vicky. They were a couple from 1997 to 2000. The actor suffered a "severe anoxic brain injury," caused by a lack of oxygen, when her car crashed into a Los Angeles area home on August 5 and fire erupted, according to a statement released Thursday that said she wasn't expected to survive. Anne Heche remains on life support and under evaluation for organ donation after the car crash that led to her brain death, a representative for the actor said yesterday . While Heche is legally dead, she's on life support and "her heart is still beating" so that the non-profit organisation OneLegacy can determine if she can be a donor, spokeswoman Holly Baird said in a statement.

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LAPD ends investigation into Anne Heche's car crash (1 News)

Heche is brain dead and on life support, pending evaluation for organ donation.

"Any information or records that have been requested prior to this turn of events will still be collected as they arrive as a matter of formalities and included in the overall case. She recently had recurring roles on the network TV series Chicago P.D. and All Rise, and in 2020 was a contestant on Dancing With the Stars. Detectives looking into the crash had said narcotics were found in a blood sample taken from Heche, 53.

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Anne Heche, legally dead, remains on life support to save organs (New Zealand Herald)

The actress was declared brain dead after a horrific car crash in California.

In the late 1990s she became one of the hottest actors in Hollywood, a constant on magazine covers and in big-budget films. She won a Daytime Emmy Award for the role of twins Marley and Vicky. They were a couple from 1997 to 2000. The actor suffered a "severe anoxic brain injury," caused by a lack of oxygen, when her car crashed into a Los Angeles area home on August 5 and fire erupted, according to a statement released Thursday that said she wasn't expected to survive. Anne Heche remains on life support and under evaluation for organ donation after the car crash that led to her brain death, a representative for the actor said yesterday . While Heche is legally dead, she's on life support and "her heart is still beating" so that the non-profit organisation OneLegacy can determine if she can be a donor, spokeswoman Holly Baird said in a statement.

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