Surname is pronounced "Haytch".
(1997 - 2000) Partner of Ellen DeGeneres.
Had a 2 year relationship with Steve Martin (I).
(1998) Chosen by People Magazine as one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world.
One of four children, she has a brother and two sisters.
Her father Don, a choir director, died at 45 of AIDS in 1983.
Her sister Susan Bergman has written a book about their family and their father called "Anonymity" (1998).
Went to Ocean City High School, Ocean City, New Jersey. Graduated from the Francis W. Parker School, Chicago, Illinois.
(1999) Announced that she intended to marry Ellen DeGeneres if Vermont carries through its plans to legalize gay marriages. In August of 2000, after three and half years together, she split from partner Ellen DeGeneres.
Before "coming out", she dated her former "Another World" (1964) co-stars Richard Burgi and David Forsyth (I).
(30 May 2001) Announced that she is engaged to her boyfriend, cameraman 'Coleman 'Coley Laffoon.
(5 September 2001) During an interview with Barbara Walters, Heche stated that she has an alter ego named "Celestia".
2 March 2002: 7 pound boy, Homer Heche Laffoon, born in Los Angeles. The baby is the first child for Heche and her husband, cameraman 'Coleman 'Coley Laffoon.
4 September 2001: Autobiography "Call Me Crazy" released. Heche wrote it in just six weeks.
Heche's family moved 11 times before she was 12.
Was the basis for the Heather Graham (I) character in Bowfinger (1999).
Was nominated for Broadway's 2004 Tony Award as Best Actress (Play) for a revival of "Twentieth Century."
Graduated from the same Chicago prep school Daryl Hannah attended.
Fleetwood Mac's Lindsey Buckingham wrote the song "Come" about her, taking shots at her lesbianism and delusions.
Her Christian mother Nancy claims to have cured her lesbianism by praying for her.
In 1977, at age eight, she appeared as an impostor on the syndicated TV panel show _"To Tell The Truth" (1976)_.
