Anne Heche Net Worth (Money & Salary)

What was Anne Heche’s Net Worth?

At the time of her passing in August 2022, Anne Heche, an American actress, writer, director, and producer, had a net worth of $400 thousand. With over 80 acting credits to her name, her filmography includes notable works such as “Volcano” (1997), “Six Days, Seven Nights” (1998), “Psycho” (1998), “John Q.” (2002), “Cedar Rapids” (2011), and “My Friend Dahmer” (2017), along with her performances in television series like “Another World” (1987–1991), “Ally McBeal” (2001), “Everwood” (2004–2005), “Save Me” (2013), and “The Brave” (2017–2018).

Anne portrayed Marin Frist on ABC’s “Men in Trees” (2006–2008) and Jessica Haxon on HBO’s “Hung” (2009–2011). In 2020, she participated in “Dancing with the Stars,” finishing in 13th place. Additionally, Heche wrote and directed the short film “Stripping for Jesus” (1998), contributed to the “2000” segment of the TV movie “If These Walls Could Talk 2” (2000), and worked on the “Reaching Normal” segment of the television film “On the Edge” (2001). She also co-created and served as executive producer for the NBC sitcom “Bad Judge,” which aired from 2014 to 2015.

Moreover, she directed “Ellen DeGeneres: American Summer Documentary” (2001) and produced the TV movie “The Dead Will Tell” (2004), as well as her NBC sitcom “Save Me.” On Broadway, Anne starred in “Proof” (2002–2003) and “Twentieth Century” (2004), for which she received a Tony nomination for Best Actress in a Play. In 2001, Heche published her memoir, “Call Me Crazy: A Memoir,” and in 2023, her second memoir, titled “Call Me Anne,” was released.

Estate Value

Two months following her death, Anne’s 20-year-old son, Homer, submitted documents to a court in Los Angeles, estimating the total value of Anne Heche’s estate at the time of her death to be $400,000. Reports indicated that the estate was predicted to earn approximately $400,000 annually through film royalties and residuals, and it was noted that she did not possess any real estate assets at the time of her passing.

The documents also revealed that Anne had $77,000 in cash within bank accounts and uncashed royalty checks valued at $33,000 at the time of her death. Additionally, she had accrued $62,000 in credit card debt.

In April 2024, Homer provided an update in his mother’s probate case, stating the estate possesses “modest bank account, royalty payments, and other residual income from pre-death projects.” The filing disclosed that the estate faces multiple creditor claims totaling about $6 million. One major claim of $2 million came from the owners of the property she crashed into during the accident that led to her death, while another claim for the same amount was submitted by the woman renting that property at the time. Furthermore, Anne’s ex, Thomas Jane, filed a claim for $150,000.

Early Life

Born on May 25, 1969, in Aurora, Ohio, Anne Heche was named Anne Celeste Heche. She was raised alongside her mother Nancy, father Donald, and older siblings Nathan, Abigail, and Susan; her sister Cynthia passed away from a heart defect at two months old prior to Anne’s birth. Throughout Anne’s childhood, the family relocated nearly a dozen times. Her father worked as a choir director, and during a 2001 interview with Larry King, Heche remarked, “I don’t think he made much on that a week. He said that he was involved in a business of gas and oil. And he said that until the day he died. But he never was involved in the business of gas and oil ever.” When Anne turned 12, the family settled in New Jersey, residing in a bedroom in the house of a family from their church. To assist her family in saving enough for their own home, Heche took a job at a Swainton dinner theater.

In March 1983, Anne’s father succumbed to AIDS at 45 years of age. Heche has claimed that her father abused her from infancy up until she was 12 years old, and that he infected her with genital herpes. Three months…

After the death of Donald, Anne faced the tragic loss of her 18-year-old brother, Nathan, who reportedly fell asleep while driving, resulting in a crash against a tree. The family subsequently moved to Chicago, where Heche attended Francis W. Parker School. At the age of 16, after an agent spotted her in a school play, Anne auditioned for the soap opera “As the World Turns.” Although she received the job offer, Heche’s mother insisted she complete her high school education first. Just before graduating in 1987, she was presented with the roles of Vicky Hudson and Marley Love on “Another World.”

Career

Between 1987 and 1991, Anne was featured in over 70 episodes of “Another World,” earning a Daytime Emmy for her outstanding performance. In the early ’90s, she made guest appearances on “Murphy Brown” (1991) and “The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles” (1993) while also appearing in TV movies such as “O Pioneers!” (1992), “Against the Wall” (1994), and “Girls in Prison” (1994). Her film credits include “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). In 1996, she starred alongside Cher and Demi Moore in the HBO film “If These Walls Could Talk,” followed by performances in “Donnie Brasco” (1997), “I Know What You Did Last Summer” (1997), “Wag the Dog” (1997), and “Return to Paradise” (1998). Anne co-starred opposite Harrison Ford in 1998’s “Six Days, Seven Nights,” and that same year, she portrayed Marion Crane in Gus Van Sant’s remake of the Alfred Hitchcock classic “Psycho.” In 2001, she took on a recurring role as Melanie West on Fox’s “Ally McBeal” and received a Primetime Emmy nomination for the 2004 TV movie “Gracie’s Choice.” Heche’s filmography also includes “Prozac Nation” (2001), “Birth” (2004), “What Love Is” (2007), and “Toxic Skies” (2008), while she lent her voice to Lois Lane in “Superman: Doomsday” (2007).

In 2002, Anne appeared alongside Denzel Washington in “John Q.,” and from 2004 to 2005, she played Amanda Hayes in a recurring role on The WB series “Everwood.” She secured the lead role in “Men in Trees” in 2006, which aired a total of 36 episodes across two seasons, before co-starring in “Hung” with Thomas Jane, appearing in all 30 episodes.

Heche took on an uncredited part in the Will Ferrell & Mark Wahlberg comedy “The Other Guys” (2010) and subsequently appeared in films such as “Rampart” (2011), “That’s What She Said” (2012), “Black November” (2012), “Arthur Newman” (2012), and “Nothing Left to Fear” (2013). She also played Beth Harper in the sitcom “Save Me” in 2013.

From 2013 to 2014, she guest-starred in four episodes of “The Michael J. Fox Show” and voiced Suyin Beifong in “The Legend of Korra” in 2014. In 2016, Anne starred in “Opening Night,” “Catfight,” and the TV movie “A Christmas Carol,” along with playing Karen Copeland, the lead role in the Syfy series “Aftermath.” In the 2017 film “My Friend Dahmer,” she portrayed Joyce Dahmer, the mother of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. From 2017 to 2018, she starred as DIA Deputy Director Patricia Campbell in the NBC series “The Brave.” More recently, Heche was seen in the films “Armed Response” (2017), “The Last Word” (2017), “The Best of Enemies” (2019), and “The Vanished” (2020), as well as in…

She had a recurring role as Dep. Superintendent Katherine Brennan on NBC’s “Chicago P.D.” from 2018 to 2019.

When she passed away in August 2022, Heche had already finished work on multiple films that would be released posthumously; “Girl in Room 13” was part of Lifetime’s “Ripped from the Headlines” series. In the 2023 film “Supercell,” she shared the screen with Alec Baldwin. Additionally, “Wildfire: The Legend of the Cherokee Ghost Horse” is expected to be the final performance of Heche on screen.

Career Decline

During a 2020 interview, Heche stated that her relationship with Ellen DeGeneres led to a stagnation in her career. As she expressed:

“The stigma attached to that relationship was so bad… I didn’t do a studio picture for ten years. I was fired from a $10 million picture deal.”

Personal Life

While most of Anne’s romantic relationships have been with men (notably including poignant comedian Steve Martin), her well-known relationship with comedian Ellen DeGeneres lasted from 1997 until August 2000. Reflecting years later on the reasons for the split, Heche remarked:

“I broke up with her because her goal was to have a lot of money. Mine was to find love, and hers was, “I want $60 billion,” Good, good luck. Our forks are never going to meet. I hope you like your money because that’s why I broke up with you! Do you like sitting on your piles of cash? Because guess what, it gets you exactly where you are.“

Anne met cameraman Coleman “Coley” Laffoon while collaborating on a documentary about DeGeneres, and they tied the knot on September 1, 2001. Heche and Laffoon welcomed their son Homer on March 2, 2002, but their marriage ended in divorce in March 2009.

In December 2008, Anne’s representative announced that she and her “Men in Trees” co-star James Tupper were expecting a child, with their son Atlas being born on March 7, 2009. However, Anne and James ended their relationship in 2018.

Bizarre Incidents

In August 2000, Heche made a journey from Los Angeles to Cantua Creek (near Fresno, California), where she walked 1.5 miles through the desert clad in only shorts and a bra, ultimately knocking on a stranger’s door. The resident, Araceli Campiz, who recognized Anne from “Six Days, Seven Nights,” allowed her inside, where Heche consumed several glasses of water, took a shower, requested slippers, and expressed a desire to watch a movie. Once Campiz discerned that Anne had no intention of leaving anytime soon, she reached out to the sheriff’s department. Upon their arrival, Heche told the deputies that she was God and claimed that she was “going to take everyone back to heaven in a spaceship.” As a result, an ambulance was called, and Anne was taken to University Medical Center in Fresno (a 50-mile journey) where she was admitted to the psychiatric unit. She was discharged after a few hours. Heche later revealed that for the first 31 years of her life, she felt “insane,” attributing this to being sexually abused by her father during childhood. To cope, she created a fantasy realm, dubbed the “Fourth Dimension,” and adopted an alter ego named “Celestia,” who purportedly received messages from God. In a 2001 interview on Larry King Live, Heche stated:

“I had to live through a lot of life to get to the place where I am now. I had to see truths and work through shame, and I’m very grateful for every step that I took.“

In August 2022, Anne was involved in a serious car accident in Mar Vista, California, where it was reported that she crashed her Mini Cooper into an apartment building’s garage at high speed. This incident resulted in significant burns to her body. A large contingent of firefighters responded to assist with her rescue from the wreckage.

Death

Sadly, Anne succumbed to her injuries from the car crash on August 12, 2022, at the age of 53.

Awards

Awards and Nominations

In 2004, a Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie was received by Heche for her work in “Gracie’s Choice.” Previously, she was nominated twice for a Daytime Emmy for “Another World,” winning the Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series award in 1991. The series also honored her with two “Soap Opera Digest” Awards: Outstanding Female Newcomer: Daytime in 1989 and Outstanding Lead Actress: Daytime in 1992. Recognition came in 2000 when Anne received the Stephen F. Kolzak Award at the GLAAD Media Awards as well as a Lucy Award at the Women in Film Lucy Awards. Additionally, she earned a Career Achievement Award at the 2019 Sarasota Film Festival. For her performances in “Donnie Brasco” and “Wag the Dog,” Heche won a National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress, and the film “If These Walls Could Talk 2” garnered an Audience Award for Best Film at the 2000 Paris International Lesbian and Feminist Film Festival.

In 2015, Anne and her fellow cast members from “The Legend of Korra” were awarded the People’s Choice Voice Acting Award for Best Vocal Ensemble in a Television Series – Action/Drama. Heche has received two nominations for Saturn Awards from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films: Best Supporting Actress for “Psycho” in 1999, and Best Actress on Television for “The Dead Will Tell” in 2005. Additional nominations include those from the Blockbuster Entertainment Awards (Favorite Actress – Comedy/Romance for “Six Days Seven Nights”), Csapnivalo Awards (Best Actress in a Leading Role for “Return to Paradise”), “Fangoria” Chainsaw Awards (Best Supporting Actress for “Psycho”), Prism Awards (Performance in a TV Movie or Miniseries for “Gracie’s Choice”), and Satellite Awards (Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical for “Wag the Dog”).

Real Estate

In 2013, a purchase of a Lake Arrowhead home measuring 1,440 square feet was made by Anne Heche and Tupper for $899,000. They later placed the property on the market in January 2017 for $1.25 million, relisting it at $1.05 million in August 2019 following the transfer of ownership to Anne due to their separation. In May 2019, their Hancock Park residence in Los Angeles was listed for $3.95 million, with a price reduction to $3.695 million the next month. The couple constructed the 4,735-square-foot, four-bedroom home in 2009, ultimately accepting an offer of $3.165 million in November 2019.