Anne Celeste Heche is an American actress, director, and screenwriter. Following a dual role in the daytime soap opera Another World, she came to mainstream prominence in the late 1990s with the films Donnie Brasco, Volcano, Six Days, Seven Nights, and Return to Paradise. In 1998, Heche portrayed Marion Crane in Gus Van Sant's horror remake Psycho. She was the lead in the 2017 NBC military drama The Brave, with the show lasting one season.A highly publicized relationship with comedian Ellen DeGeneres was followed by a significant downturn in Heche's career, although she has continued to act in numerous independent films such as Birth, Spread, Cedar Rapids, and Rampart.