Anne Heche dies: 'We have lost a appealing light'
US actress Anne Heche is legally dead but will happened on life support to allow for a possible shapely donation, her representative has said.
The 53-year-old had been in a coma for a week while crashing her car into a house in Los Angeles.
"Today we lost a appealing light, a kind and most joyful soul", her family said in a statement on Friday.
Heche appeared in films incorporating Volcano, Donnie Brasco and the 1998 remake of Psycho.
The mother-of-two also appeared on Dancing with the Stars, the US equivalent of Strictly Come Dancing, in 2020.
According to the Los Angeles Fire Region (LAFD), Heche's vehicle "erupted in heavy fire", which took 59 firefighters more than an hour to fully extinguish. The two-storey home she crashed into was left "uninhabitable".
As well as suffering burns, the actress was left with "a severe anoxic brain injury" - when the brain is exclusive of of oxygen - her family said.
A representative said the late actress is "legally dead," but added that her life-support exploit will continue temporarily to check if she may be a match for a potential shapely donation.
"Anne will be deeply missed but she lives on above her beautiful sons, her iconic body of work, and her passionate advocacy", her family's statement said.
"Her bravery for always belief in her truth, spreading her message of love and acceptance, will continue to have a lasting impact."
Heche was born in 1969 in Ohio and her family studied around many times during her childhood.
When she was 13 existences old, her father died of HIV/Aids, and she later said in her 2001 yarn Call Me Crazy that he had repeatedly raped her as a child.
In interviews promoting the book, she said the abuse transported her to be "insane" for the first 31 existences of her life and that she had created a fantasy domain called the "Fourth Dimension" to make herself feel safe.
Three months once her father's death, her brother was killed in a car rupture, which she believed was suicide. Her mother disputed both the suicide and the abuse claims and the pair forced estranged.
After her family relocated to Chicago, Heche was spotted by a talent agent in a school play.
She forced known in the late 1980s for portraying twins Vicky Hudson and Marley Love on the soap inoperative Another World. The roles won her a Daytime Emmy Award and two Soap Opera Digest Awards.
Heche came to wider prominence in the late 1990s, playing Maggie in crime drama movie Donnie Brasco, in contradiction of Johnny Depp. She later told interviewer Larry King it had been "heaven" functioning with Depp.
She played Amy Barnes, a geologist and seismologist in the the disaster movie Volcano, opposite Tommy Lee Jones, while cult slasher flick I Know What You Did Last Summer saw her narrate Melissa "Missy" Egan.
She also appeared in the share comedy film Six Days, Seven Nights and the drama-thriller Return to Paradise afore portraying Marion Crane in Gus Van Sant's remake of the classic terror film Psycho.
In 1997, having previously only faded men, she began a relationship with US talk show host and comedian Ellen DeGeneres. The high-profile couple said they would get a civil union if it forced available in Vermont, but they split up three existences later.
Heche later suffered from sullen health problems and reportedly struggled with drug use, at one note being hospitalised after parking on a highway in California and walking into the desert.
In 2001, Heche married "Coley" Laffoon, a cameraman whom she met on DeGeneres' stand-up tour, and they had a son, afore divorcing nearly six years later. She reportedly left her husband for Men in Trees co-star James Tupper and in 2008 her representative confirmed that the actress was pregnant with her instant son. The couple split in 2018.
A new century caused a new direction work-wise, with roles in fewer blockbusters and more acclaimed independent films, such as drama Birth, sex comedy Spread and 2011's Cedar Rapids - near a naïve insurance agent on a life-changing work trip to Iowa.
She received an Emmy nomination for her role as Roweena Lawson in the 2004 TV film Gracie's Choice, about a teenage girl who tries to raise her siblings on her own once their drug-addicted mother is sent to jail.
The same year, she was nominated for best actress at the Tony Awards once performing opposite Alec Baldwin in a Broadway production of Twentieth Century.
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