American actress Anne Heche was BOTD in 1969. Born in Aurora, Ohio, her parents were fundamentalist Christians, moving frequently as her pastor father looked for work. After her parents separated, Heche found work in dinner theatre to help support her family. She began her professional career in 1987 with a recurring role on the soap opera Another World, winning a daytime Emmy for playing identical twins. She became an overnight celebrity in 1997, after she and comedian Ellen DeGeneres announced their relationship, shortly after DeGeneres’ public coming out. In the media storm that followed, Heche disclosed that her father was secretly gay and had died of an AIDS-related illness. Elevated into the major league via her association with DeGeneres, she starred in the films Donnie Brasco, Six Days and Seven Nights, Wag the Dog, The Third Miracle, Volcano and Gus Van Sant‘s 1998 remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho. She co-starred in the 1996 TV drama If These Walls Could Talk as a young woman seeking an abortion, and later directed a segment of If These Walls Could Talk 2, featuring a sex scene between DeGeneres and Sharon Stone. Heche and DeGeneres separated in 2000, after Heche began a relationship with cameraman Coleman Laffoon. A few months later, Heche was found wandering in the Californian desert, partially dressed and in a delusional state. In her 2001 memoir Call Me Crazy, she discussed her struggles with mental illness, alleging that her father sexually abused her as a child with the full knowledge of her mother. (Both claims were denied by her mother, from whom she became estranged). Her celebrity waned in the 2000s, and she appeared supporting roles in independent film, notably Birth with Nicole Kidman, and recurring roles in TV crime procedurals The Brave and Chicago P.D. Heche was married twice and had two children. She died in 2022, following injuries sustained from a car crash, aged 53.