What was Anne Heche net worth?
At the time of her death in August 2022, American actress, writer, director, and producer Anne Heche was worth $400,000. With over 80 acting credits under her belt, Anne Heche’s credits include the following: television series “Another World” (1987–1991), “Ally McBeal” (2001), “Everwood” (2004–2005), “Save Me” (2013), and “The Brave” (2017–2018); films: “Volcano” (1997), “Six Days, Seven Nights” (1998), “Psycho” (1998), “John Q.” (2002), “Cedar Rapids” (2011), and “My Friend Dahmer (2017).
In addition to her roles as Jessica Haxon on HBO’s “Hung” (2009–2011) and Marin Frist on ABC’s “Men in Trees” (2006–2008), Anne participated in “Dancing with the Stars” in 2020 and placed thirteenth. Heche co-created and executive produced the NBC sitcom “Bad Judge,” which ran from 2014 to 2015. She also wrote and directed the short films “Stripping for Jesus” (1998), “2000” from the TV movie “If These Walls Could Talk 2” (2000), and “Reaching Normal” from the TV movie “On the Edge” (2001).
She also produced the TV film “The Dead Will Tell” (2004) and her NBC sitcom “Save Me.” She directed the film “Ellen DeGeneres: American Summer Documentary” (2001). Anne’s Broadway credits include “Proof” (2002–2003) and “Twentieth Century” (2004), for which she received a Tony nomination for Best Actress in a Play. Heche released “Call Me Crazy: A Memoir” in 2001. Her second memoir, “Call Me Anne,” was published in 2023.
Estate Value
Homer, Anne Heche’s 20-year-old son, filed filings with a Los Angeles court two months after his mother passed away, estimating the estate’s overall value at the time of her death to be $400,000. According to the newspaper, she didn’t own any real estate at the time of her death, and her estate anticipates making around $400,000 annually in film royalties and residuals.
The documents also revealed that Anne had $33,000 in uncashed royalty checks and $77,000 in cash in her bank account at the time of her passing. In addition, she owed $62,000 in credit card debt.
Homer updated the probate case of his mother in April 2024, stating that the estate consists of a “modest bank account, payments for royalty, and other remaining earnings from pre-death projects.” The estate has several creditor claims totaling $6 million, according to the document. One claim, for $2 million, was made against the owners of the house she died in the collision. The lady who was leasing the property at the time has another claim, this one for $2 million. Thomas Jane, Anne’s former partner, submitted a $150,000 claim.
Early Life
In Aurora, Ohio, on May 25, 1969, Anne Celeste Heche was born. Her mother Nancy, her father Donald, and younger brothers Nathan, Abigail, and Susan raised her; her sister Cynthia passed away at the age of two months, just before Heche was born, due to a cardiac condition. Anne grew up in a family that relocated nearly twelve times. Heche said, “I don’t think he produced much on that a week,” in a 2001 interview with Larry King about her father, a choir director. He claimed to be involved in the oil and gas industry. And up to the day of his passing, he said that. However, he never worked in the oil and gas industry.” The family moved to New Jersey when Anne was twelve years old, and they took up residence in a bedroom of a neighboring family. Heche assisted her family in saving enough cash to move away by working at a Swainton dinner theater.
Anne’s 45-year-old father passed away from AIDS in March 1983. According to Heche, her father gave her genital herpes virus and sexually assaulted her from the time she was a baby until she was twelve years old. Anne lost her 18-year-old brother, Nathan, three months after Donald passed away. It was said that Nathan fell asleep at the wheel and struck a tree. After thereafter, the family moved to Chicago, where Heche enrolled at Francis W. Parker School. Once an agent spotted Anne in a school play, Anne went to audition for the soap opera “As the World Turns” when she was sixteen years old. Heche’s mother preferred that her daughter complete her high school education before accepting the employment opportunity. Before her 1987 graduation, she had offers to play Marley Love and Vicky Hudson on “Another World.”
Career
For her role in over 70 episodes of “Another World,” which ran from 1987 to 1991, Anne was awarded a Daytime Emmy. She made appearances in the TV movies “O Pioneers!” (1992), “Against the Wall” (1994), and “Girls in Prison” (1994), as well as the film roles in “An Ambush of Ghosts” (1993), “The Adventures of Huck Finn” (1993), “I’ll Do Anything” (1994), “A Simple Twist of Fate” (1994), and “Milk Money” (1994). She also made guest stars in the early 1990s on “Murphy Brown” (1991) and “The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles” (1993). She acted in the HBO films “If These Walls Could Talk” (1996), “Donnie Brasco” (1997), “I Know What You Did Last Summer” (1997), “Wag the Dog” (1997), and “Return to Paradise” (1998) after costarring with Cher and Demi Moore in that film in 1996. In addition to starring alongside Harrison Ford in the 1998 film “Six Days, Seven Nights,” Anne also portrayed Marion Crane in Gus Van Sant’s adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho.”
In 2001, she appeared on Fox’s “Ally McBeal” in a recurring role as Melanie West. In 2004, she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy for the television film “Gracie’s Choice.” In addition to lending her voice to Lois Lane in “Superman: Doomsday” (2007), Heche starred in the movies “Prozac Nation” (2001), “Birth” (2004), “What Love Is” (2007), and “Toxic Skies” (2008).
In the 2002 film “John Q.,” Anne featured with Denzel Washington. She also portrayed Amanda Hayes in a recurring role on The WB series “Everwood” from 2004 to 2005. She was cast as the lead in “Men in Trees,” which ran for two seasons and thirty episodes in 2006. She later co-starred with Thomas Jane in “Hung,” appearing in all thirty episodes of the series.
Heche starred as Beth Harper on the sitcom “Save Me” in 2013 after having an uncredited role in the Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg comedy “The Other Guys” (2010). She also made appearances in the movies “Rampart” (2011), “That’s What She Said” (2012), “Black November” (2012), “Arthur Newman” (2012), and “Nothing Left to Fear” (2013).
She voiced Suyin Beifong in “The Legend of Korra” in 2014 and appeared as a guest star in four episodes of “The Michael J. Fox Show” between 2013 and 2014. In 2016, Anne starred as Karen Copeland in the Syfy series “Aftermath,” as well as in the TV movies “A Christmas Carol,” “Opening Night,” and “Catfight.” She played the mother of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, Joyce Dahmer, in the 2017 film “My Friend Dahmer,” and from 2017 to 2018, she starred in the NBC series “The Brave” as Patricia Campbell, the DIA Department of Police. Heche has acted in the following recent motion pictures: “Armed Response” (2017), “The Last Word” (2017), “The Best of Enemies” (2019), “The Vanished” (2020), and from 2018 to 2019, she portrayed Dep. Superintendent Katherine Brennan in an NBC recurring role on “Chicago P.D.”
Heche had wrapped her work on several post-production projects when she passed away in August 2022; “Girl in Room 13” was shown as an element of Lifetime’s “Ripped from the Headlines” film series. Alec Baldwin and Anne made an appearance in the 2023 film “Supercell.” Furthermore, Heche’s last on-screen role is expected to be in “Wildfire: The Legend of the Cherokee Ghost Horse”.
Career Decline
Heche asserted in a 2020 interview that her career came to a standstill because of her connection with Ellen DeGeneres. According to her own words:
“That relationship had such a terrible stigma attached to it… I waited eleven years to make another studio picture. I lost my $10 million movie contract.”
Personal Life
While Anne has primarily dated men, such as the late comic Steve Martin, she was famously in a relationship with comedian Ellen DeGeneres from 1997 to August 2000. Years later, when discussing the reasons why her connection with Ellen failed to work out, Heche asserted:
“She wanted to be extremely wealthy, therefore I ended our relationship because of that. Her response to mine was, “I want $60 billion,” so good luck finding love. There’s no way our forks will ever meet. That’s why I ended our relationship, so I hope you like your money! Do you enjoy lounging around with your cash stacks? Because, surprise! It brings you right to your destination.”
While working on a documentary on Ellen DeGeneres, Anne encountered cameraman Coleman “Coley” Laffoon. On September 1, 2001, they were married. On March 2, 2002, Heche and Laffoon delivered their baby, Homer. March 2009 saw their divorce.
Heche’s spokesperson for Anne revealed in December 2008 that she and her “Men in Trees” co-star James Tupper were planning a boy, Atlas, who was born on March 7, 2009. In 2018, Anne and James parted ways.
Bizarre Incidents
Heche traveled 1.5 miles across the desert with only shorts and a bra in August 2000 after driving from Los Angeles to Cantua Creek, a town north of Fresno, California, and knocking on a stranger’s home. Heche drank a lot of water, took a bath, asked for a pair of slippers, and stated she wanted to watch a movie when occupant Araceli Campiz, who knew Anne from “Six Days, Seven Nights,” allowed her inside the house. Campiz called the sheriff’s office as soon as she saw that Anne didn’t appear to be intending to leave anytime soon.
Heche claimed to be God and said she was “going to send everybody back to heaven in a spaceship” when police arrived at the house. After the deputies called for help, Anne was driven 50 miles to the University Medical Center in Fresno by ambulance, where she was checked into the psychiatric unit. It was several hours before Heche was freed. Anne claims that she was “insane” for the first 31 years of her life and that this was caused by her father abusing her sexually when she was younger. She disclosed that she developed the “Fourth Dimension,” a fantastical realm, as a coping mechanism and took on the persona of “Celestia,” an alter ego who conversed with God. Heche said in a 2001 Larry King Live interview:
“To get to where I am now, I had to go through a lot in life. I’m thankful for every step I took since I had to face reality and overcome shame.”
Anne was allegedly involved in a high-speed car accident in August 2022 in Mar Vista, California, when she crashed her Mini Cooper into an apartment building’s carport. She was severely burned in the ensuing crash. Heche needed assistance from dozens of firefighters to be pulled from the wreck.
Death
Unfortunately, on August 12, 2022, Anne, at 53 years old, passed away from her injuries sustained in the vehicle incident.
Awards and Nominations
Heche had two Daytime Emmy nods for “Another World,” and in 1991 she was awarded Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series. In 2004, she received a nomination for a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for “Gracie’s Choice.” Additionally, she won two “Soap Opera Digest” Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress: Daytime in 1992 and Best Female Newcomer: Daytime in 1989. Anne won a Lucy Award at the Women in Film Lucy Awards in 2000, the Stephen F. Kolzak Award at the GLAAD Media Awards, and a Career Performance Award at the 2019 Sarasota Film Festival. Heche’s films “Donnie Brasco” and “Wag the Dog” brought her a 1997 National Board of Review Award for the best supporting actress, and in 2000 the Paris International Lesbian and Feminist Film Festival presented “If These Walls Could Talk 2” with an Audience Award for Best Film. In 2015, Anne and her co-stars from “The Legend of Korra” took home the Best Vocal Ensemble in a Television Series – Action/Drama People’s Choice Voice Acting Award. Outstanding Supporting Actress for “Psycho” in 1999 and Best Actress on Television for “The Dead Will Tell” in 2005 are the two Saturn Award nominations that Heche has received from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films.
In addition, Anne has been nominated for Best Actress – Comedy/Romance for “Six Days Seven Nights” at the Blockbuster Entertainment Awards, Best Actress – Comedy/Romance for “Return to Paradise” at the Csapnivalo Awards, Best Supporting Actress for “Psycho” at the “Fangoria” Chainsaw Awards, Performance in a TV Movie or Miniseries for “Gracie’s Choice” at the Prism Awards, and Best Actress in a Supporting Position in a Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical for “Wag the Dog” at the Satellite Awards.
Real Estate
Anne Heche and Tupper purchased a 1,440-square-foot property in Lake Arrowhead in 2013 for $899,000. After the couple’s breakup, ownership was transferred to Anne, and they relisted it for $1.05 million in August 2019 after listing it for $1.25 million in January 2017. They first put their Los Angeles property in the Hancock Park neighborhood up for $3.95 million in May 2019, but the following month they dropped the asking price to $3.695 million. The 4,735-square-foot, four-bedroom house was constructed in 2009 by Anne and James. In November of 2019, they did receive $3.165 million after all.
Anne Heche Career Earnings
- Spread $65 Thousand
- Men in Trees $81 Thousand
