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 estimated at $400 thousand. Throughout her career, Anne Heche amassed over 80 acting credits, starring in films such as “Volcano” (1997), “Six Days, Seven Nights” (1998), “Psycho” (1998), “John Q.” (2002), “Cedar Rapids” (2011), and “My Friend Dahmer” (2017) as well as in popular television series like “Another World” (1987–1991), “Ally McBeal” (2001), “Everwood” (2004–2005), “Save Me” (2013), and “The Brave” (2017–2018).

She portrayed Marin Frist on ABC’s “Men in Trees” (2006–2008) and Jessica Haxon on HBO’s “Hung” (2009–2011). In 2020, she also participated in “Dancing with the Stars,” where she finished in 13th place. 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 directed the “Reaching Normal” segment of the television film “On the Edge” (2001). Furthermore, she co-created and served as executive producer for the NBC sitcom “Bad Judge,” which aired from 2014 to 2015.

Heche also directed “Ellen DeGeneres: American Summer Documentary” (2001) and produced the TV movie “The Dead Will Tell” (2004), along with her NBC sitcom “Save Me.” On Broadway, she performed in “Proof” (2002–2003) and “Twentieth Century” (2004), earning a Tony nomination for Best Actress in a Play for her role in “Twentieth Century.” In 2001, Heche released her memoir titled “Call Me Crazy,” and in 2023, she published her second memoir, “Call Me Anne.”

Estate Value

Following her death, documents filed two months later by Anne’s 20-year-old son, Homer, in a Los Angeles court estimated the total value of Anne Heche’s estate at $400,000. It was noted that the estate anticipates earning approximately $400,000 annually from film royalties and residuals, and that she did not possess any real estate at the time of her passing.

The filings also revealed that, at the time of her death, Anne had $77,000 in cash in bank accounts alongside $33,000 in uncashed royalty checks, while also carrying $62,000 in credit card debt.

In April 2024, Homer submitted an update to his mother’s probate case, claiming the estate consists of a “modest bank account, royalty payments, and other residual income from pre-death projects.” This filing indicated that the estate faced several creditor claims totaling $6 million. Among these, one claim for $2 million came from the owners of the home she crashed into that led to her demise, and another for the same amount was filed by a woman renting the property at the time. Additionally, Anne’s ex-partner, Thomas Jane, filed a claim amounting to $150,000.

Early Life

Born Anne Celeste Heche on May 25, 1969, in Aurora, Ohio, Anne Heche spent her childhood with her mother Nancy, father Donald, and siblings Nathan, Abigail, and Susan. Unfortunately, her sister Cynthia passed away from a heart defect at two months old before Anne’s birth. During her early years, the family relocated approximately a dozen times. Her father served as a choir director, and in 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 of a family from their church. Heche worked at a Swainton dinner theater to assist her family in saving enough money to move out.

In March 1983, Anne’s father passed away from AIDS at the age of 45. Heche has recounted that she was raped by her father from infancy until she was 12 years old, leading to being diagnosed with genital herpes.

Following Donald’s passing, Anne experienced the loss of her 18-year-old brother, Nathan, who tragically fell asleep at the wheel and collided with a tree. Subsequently, the family moved to Chicago, where Heche enrolled in Francis W. Parker School. At the age of 16, after an agent discovered her talent during a school play, Anne auditioned for the soap opera “As the World Turns.” Although she received a job offer, Heche’s mother insisted that she finish high school first. Just prior to her graduation in 1987, she was offered the roles of Vicky Hudson and Marley Love on “Another World.”

Career

Between 1987 and 1991, Anne featured in over 70 episodes of “Another World,” earning a Daytime Emmy for her outstanding performance. During the early 1990s, she guest-starred on shows like “Murphy Brown” (1991) and “The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles” (1993) and starred in TV movies such as “O Pioneers!” (1992), “Against the Wall” (1994), and “Girls in Prison” (1994). She also appeared in feature films including “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, Heche co-starred alongside Cher and Demi Moore in the HBO film “If These Walls Could Talk,” followed by appearances in films like “Donnie Brasco” (1997), “I Know What You Did Last Summer” (1997), “Wag the Dog” (1997), and “Return to Paradise” (1998). In 1998, she shared the screen with Harrison Ford in “Six Days, Seven Nights,” and that same year, played the role of Marion Crane in Gus Van Sant’s remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho.” Her recurring role as Melanie West on Fox’s “Ally McBeal” in 2001 earned her a Primetime Emmy nomination for the 2004 TV movie “Gracie’s Choice.” Heche also appeared in “Prozac Nation” (2001), “Birth” (2004), “What Love Is” (2007), and “Toxic Skies” (2008), lending her voice to Lois Lane in “Superman: Doomsday” (2007).

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

Heche made an uncredited appearance in “The Other Guys” (2010), a comedy starring Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg, and later starred in films such as “Rampart” (2011), “That’s What She Said” (2012), “Black November” (2012), “Arthur Newman” (2012), and “Nothing Left to Fear” (2013). In 2013, she played Beth Harper in the sitcom “Save Me.”

From 2013 to 2014, she guest-starred in four episodes of “The Michael J. Fox Show” and lent her voice to Suyin Beifong on “The Legend of Korra” in 2014. In 2016, Anne appeared in the films “Opening Night,” “Catfight,” and the TV movie “A Christmas Carol,” in addition to leading the cast as Karen Copeland in the Syfy series “Aftermath.” In 2017, she portrayed Joyce Dahmer, the mother of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, in “My Friend Dahmer” and starred as DIA Deputy Director Patricia Campbell on the NBC series “The Brave” from 2017 to 2018. In the following years, Heche featured in films such as “Armed Response” (2017), “The Last Word” (2017), “The Best of Enemies” (2019), and “The Vanished” (2020), and she had…

Heche portrayed the recurring character of Dep. Superintendent Katherine Brennan on NBC’s “Chicago P.D.” from 2018 until 2019.

By the time of her passing in August 2022, Heche had finished filming multiple movies that would be released posthumously; for instance, “Girl in Room 13” was part of Lifetime’s “Ripped from the Headlines” series. In 2023, Anne starred alongside Alec Baldwin in “Supercell,” and “Wildfire: The Legend of the Cherokee Ghost Horse” was expected to be her final performance on screen.

Career Decline

In a 2020 discussion, Heche mentioned that her career faced challenges due to her relationship with Ellen DeGeneres. She expressed it this way:

“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 involvements were with men, including the iconic comedian Steve Martin, she notoriously dated comedian Ellen DeGeneres from 1997 to August 2000. Reflecting on her relationship with Ellen years later, Heche revealed:

“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 encountered cameraman Coleman “Coley” Laffoon while working on a documentary regarding DeGeneres, leading to their marriage on September 1, 2001. Their son, Homer, was born on March 2, 2002, but the couple divorced in March 2009.

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

Bizarre Incidents

In August 2000, Heche drove from Los Angeles to Cantua Creek (near Fresno, California), walked 1.5 miles through the desert in only shorts and a bra, and knocked on a stranger’s door. The homeowner, Araceli Campiz, recognized Anne from “Six Days, Seven Nights” and let her in, where Heche drank several glasses of water, took a shower, requested slippers, and expressed a desire to watch a movie. Realizing that Anne was not going to leave soon, Campiz called the sheriff’s department. When deputies arrived, Heche declared that she was God and claimed she would “take everyone back to heaven in a spaceship.” The deputies then summoned an ambulance, and Anne was transported to University Medical Center in Fresno (a 50-mile trip) and placed in the psychiatric unit, being released after a few hours. Anne has mentioned that for the first 31 years of her life, she felt “insane,” attributing this to sexual abuse she suffered from her father in her youth. She coped by building a fantasy world, the “Fourth Dimension,” and adopting an alter ego named “Celestia,” who received messages from God. During a 2001 interview on Larry King Live, Heche commented:

“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 car accident in Mar Vista, California, where she reportedly drove her Mini Cooper at high speed into an apartment building’s garage. The crash resulted in severe burns, necessitating the response of numerous firefighters to rescue Heche.

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, Heche received a nomination for a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for “Gracie’s Choice.” Additionally, she garnered two Daytime Emmy nominations for “Another World,” achieving the title of Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series in 1991. The actress was also recognized with two “Soap Opera Digest” Awards, winning Outstanding Female Newcomer: Daytime in 1989 and Outstanding Lead Actress: Daytime in 1992. In 2000, Anne was the recipient of the Stephen F. Kolzak Award at the GLAAD Media Awards and a Lucy Award at the Women in Film Lucy Awards. Furthermore, she was honored with a Career Achievement Award at the 2019 Sarasota Film Festival. Heche triumphed with a National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performances in “Donnie Brasco” and “Wag the Dog” in 1997, and “If These Walls Could Talk 2” achieved an Audience Award for Best Film at the 2000 Paris International Lesbian and Feminist Film Festival.

In 2015, Anne along with her castmates from “The Legend of Korra” won a People’s Choice Voice Acting Award for Best Vocal Ensemble in a Television Series – Action/Drama. Heche also received two Saturn Award nominations from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, for Best Supporting Actress for “Psycho” in 1999 and Best Actress on Television for “The Dead Will Tell” in 2005. Moreover, Anne was nominated for several accolades including 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

Anne Heche and Tupper purchased a 1,440-square-foot Lake Arrowhead home for $899,000 in 2013. In January 2017, they placed the house on the market for $1.25 million, later relisting it for $1.05 million in August 2019 when ownership transferred to Anne following their separation. In May 2019, they listed their property in Hancock Park, Los Angeles for $3.95 million, subsequently reducing the asking price to $3.695 million the following month. The couple had constructed the four-bedroom, 4,735-square-foot home in 2009 and ultimately accepted an offer of $3.165 million in November 2019.