Heather Graham

Heather Graham

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Birth name: Heather Joan Graham
Date of birth: 29 January 1970
Place of birth: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Nickname: Heather
Height: 5′ 8″ (1.73 m)

Famous Quote: “I’d like to think I could do something great at some point in my life. At the same time, though, I don’t want to put too much pressure on myself to be great. Whenever I meet people who seem really sweet and unassuming, I kind of wonder about them. I love telling dirty jokes. Sex is funny.”

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Heather Graham
Brillstein-Grey Entertainment
9150 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 350
Beverly Hills, CA 90212, USA 

Biography:  Heather Joan Graham (born January 29, 1970) is an American film and television actress. Blue-eyed and angelic, with delicate doll-like features and long wavy mermaid blonde hair, actress Heather Graham has often played the bad girl who steals the audience’s heart, her innocent looks in juxtaposition with her onscreen antics helping to make her an unpredictable and especially compelling presence. After debuting with a strong performance as a drunken dream girl in 1988′s silly “License to Drive” (a vehicle for the Coreys Feldman and Haim), Graham was hired by director Gus Van Sant for his gripping “Drugstore Cowboy” (1989). 

Her performance as a young and doomed addict won praise and notice for this veteran of small TV parts (e.g., two 1987 episodes of the ABC sitcom “Growing Pains”) as well as a Best Actress nomination from the Independent Spirit Awards. The following year saw Graham take on the recurring role of Annie, an ex-nun who becomes the love interest of Kyle MacLachlan’s Agent Cooper, in David Lynch’s always strange series “Twin Peaks” (ABC). In 1991, she took on a more conventional role as a college student with parental difficulties in the unimpressive 1950s set musical drama “Shout”. 

She returned to television that year with a starring role alongside Josh Hamilton and Anne Heche, as the young version of Jessica Lange’s character in “O Pioneers!” for CBS. After reprising her role of Annie in the incoherent “Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me” (1992) the actress appeared in “Diggstown” (also 1992) and “Six Degrees of Separation” (1993), both roles playing up Graham’s fresh-faced innocence. She went on to bide her time in features like the poorly received “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues” and the little-seen independent drama “Desert Winds” (both 1994).

Graham was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the daughter of Joan, a teacher and noted author of children’s books, and James Graham, a retired FBI agent. Graham has a younger sister, Aimee, who is also an actress and writer. The family, who are of Irish descent, followed a strict traditional Catholic upbringing; Graham has since estranged herself from the Catholic Church. Graham has practiced Hinduism and associated transcendental meditation since 1991. Graham graduated from the Agoura High School in California in 1988. In 1986, Heather appeared on a special “Teen Week” episode of the NBC-TV game show Scrabble.

After high school, Graham enrolled in extension classes of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), and she also met the actor James Woods. They became romantically involved at about the time she was cast in the movie Diggstown, which starred Woods. Two years later, Graham stopped taking classes at UCLA to pursue acting full time, over her parents’ objections. She then moved to Hollywood, where she worked different jobs while continuing to establish herself as an actress.

As a supporting actress, Graham was cast in a number of parts that brought her attention, including Nadine in 1989 film Drugstore Cowboy. In 1991, she appeared in the TV series Twin Peaks as Annie Blackburn, Dale Cooper’s second-season love interest. However, her breakthrough role was that of 1970s porn starlet Roller Girl in 1997′s Boogie Nights, for which she received several award nominations. Her first starring role was in 1999 as Felicity Shagwell in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. She also appeared in the music video for Lenny Kravitz’s cover of “American Woman” by The Guess Who. More recently, she starred as Mary Kelly in the 2001 film From Hell, based on the story of Jack the Ripper.

Although Graham has been featured in mainstream films, she has also been cast in a number of independent films. Some of those films, like 2002′s The Guru, have brought her critical praise. She also starred opposite Joseph Fiennes in the less successful Killing Me Softly. In 2001, Graham was named by People as one of the “50 Most Beautiful People in the World”. She next starred in the middling erotic thriller “Killing Me Softly” (2002)opposite Joseph Fiennes, baring much of her body as a woman involved in a kinky affair with a mysterious man; and co-starred in the Indian-themed romantic comedy “The Guru” (2003), with up-and-coming actor Jimi Mistry, where she was cast again as a porn star—although this role was much lighter in tone. She then played a nice, normal girl caught in a romantic triangle between Colin Firth and Minnie Driver in “Hope Springs” (2003) and played a bar patron with a surprising private side caught up in the battle of wills between Jack Nicholson and Adam Sandler in an uncredited turn in “Anger Management” (2003). Graham next starred in the Bollywood-esque romantic comedy, “The Guru” (2003), playing an adult film star whose affections are sought by an Indian dance teacher (Jimi Mistry) seeking his fame and fortune in America.

Graham also played herself on one episode of the TV series Sex and the City. She was given special guest-star status on several episodes of NBC-TV’s Scrubs during its fourth season (2004–2005), and also appeared in a small role as a teacher in an episode of Fox’s Arrested Development. In 2005, Graham became the spokeswoman and TV model for the Garnier brand of hair care products. Graham’s print ad for Skyy vodka, which was photographed in 2003 (titled “#3, Entourage”) is still appearing in national magazines today as well. Graham was able to reheat her career when she signed for an eight episode stint on NBC’s cult hit sit-com “Scrubs” in 2004. Appearing as the charmingly off-kilter, fast-talking psychologist Molly Clock, she reminded viewers of her comedic abilities and willingness to whatever it takes to sell a joke. After appearing in an episode of the perpetually uncertain “Arrested Development” (Fox, 2003-2006), Graham landed her own sitcom, “Emily’s Reasons Why Not” (ABC, 2005-2006), playing a book publisher with a string of disastrous relationships who develops a technique to determine suitable men, but is incapable of following her own advice. The network promoted the series relentlessly, running television commercials and hoisting billboard ads as if it were the only show on their slate. The show, however, was canceled its the first episode because of poor ratings. 

Graham starred in the ABC-TV comedy series Emily’s Reasons Why Not, in 2006. However, ABC-TV announced that the show was canceled after its first airing on January 9, 2006. Because they print their covers weeks in advance, and they did not expect the quick cancellation, Life did a cover story on Graham two weeks later in their January 27, 2006 issue, and they referred to her as “TV’s sexiest star”. Billboard ads also remained in place promoting the show weeks after the cancellation. Graham voiced the character of Antonia Bayle in the online role playing game EverQuest 2. Graham has been in relationships with musician Adam Ant and actors Heath Ledger and Edward Burns (1998-2000).

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