Anne Heche’s final roles: Movies and TV shows to air after tragic death
13.08.2022 - 02:45
/ nypost.com
declared brain dead Friday after a fiery car crash in Los Angles last week. “We have lost a bright light, a kind and most joyful soul, a loving mother, and a loyal friend.
Anne will be deeply missed but she lives on through her beautiful sons, her iconic body of work, and her passionate advocacy,” a representative for the Emmy-nominated “Gracie’s Choice” actress told The Post. Heche, 53, had been in a Los Angeles-area hospital and in a coma since the accident, in which she crashed into a house.
She suffered a “severe anoxic brain injury” from the incident.A blood test determined she had cocaine, and possibly fentanyl, in her system at the time of the crash. However, the fentanyl could’ve been administered for her pain at the hospital, officials said.
As for her acting career, “Wag the Dog” star Heche had several projects that have either been filmed and completed or are currently in post-production, including a film drama for Lifetime and an HBO series starring The Weeknd.Here is a roundup of the work that fans may still see on the big or small screen. On Thursday, Lifetime assured viewers that the drama “Girl in Room 13” will be released sometime in September.
A rep for the network said the film’s exact release date would be announced “soon.”In the movie, Heche plays a mother — named Janie — on a relentless search to find her daughter, Grace, played by Larissa Dias, who was formerly addicted to opioids after a doctor prescribed them to her for a sports injury. After she faced several stints in rehab, Grace’s ex-boyfriend and former drug dealer, Richie (Max Montesi), hatches a plan to hold her captive in a motel, where he starves her and forces her to consume drugs and alcohol to make her complaint sell her into sex
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