LOS ANGELES - Anne Heche, 53, was among the most prominent film stars in Hollywood in the late 1990s, playing opposite actors including Johnny Depp ("Donnie Brasco") and Harrison Ford ("Six Days, Seven Nights").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" before she was in a car crash earlier this month and declared brain dead.
Her representatives told FOX 11 Los Angeles that she is being kept on life support for organ donation purposes. A native of Ohio, Heche first became prominent on the NBC soap opera "Another World" from 1987 to 1991.
She won a Daytime Emmy Award for the role of twins Marley and Vicky.RELATED: Anne Heche declared brain dead after crashing into Mar Vista home, her rep saysIn the late 1990s she became one of the hottest actors in Hollywood, a constant on magazine covers and in big-budget films.
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."The following year, she starred with Harrison Ford in "Six Days, Seven Nights" and appeared with Vince Vaughn and Joaquin Phoenix in "Return to Paradise."Around the same time, she had a high-profile romance with comedian-actress and former talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres from March 1997 until they broke up in August 2000.