Heather Graham

Heather enjoyed special guest-star status on several episodes of NBC-TV's Scrubs in the Fall of 2004. 2002 - Winner - Munich Film Festival - CineMerit Award. She was named by People Magazine as one of the "50 Most Beautiful People in the World 2001" [1] (http://www.imdb.com/Bio?Graham,+Heather). 2001 - Winner - If Awards - Best Actress - Lantana (shared with Kerry Armstrong, Rachel Blake, Daniella Farinacci and Leah Purcell). More recently, she starred as Mary Kelly in the film From Hell (2001), based on the story of Jack the Ripper. 1999 - Nominee - Golden Satellite Awards - Best Actress in a TV Film - The Staircase. She has publically discussed her conversion to a new-age eastern-based religion and philosophy. 1997 - Winner - National Society of Film Critics Awards USA - Best Supporting Actress - The Portrait of a Lady.

Heather Graham is currently estranged from her parents, though they are hopeful for a reconciliation. 1997 - Nominee - Academy Awards - Best Supporting Actress - The Portrait of a Lady. She achieved international stardom in 1999 with her lead role as Felicity Shagwell in Mike Myers ' second Austin Powers comedy: The Spy who Shagged Me.. 1997 - Nominee - Golden Globes - Best Supporting Actress - The Portrait of a Lady. Though earlier Graham had a number of critcally noted acting parts including Nadine in Drugstore Cowboy 1989, her breakthrough role was that of Roller Girl in Boogie Nights (1997), for which she received several award nominations. 1996 - Winner - Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards - Best Supporting Actress - The Portrait of a Lady. Heather moved to Hollywood where she worked different jobs while continuing to establish herself as a starlet. 1991 - Winner - Golden Globes - Best Actress in a TV Film - Killing in a Small Town.

After two years had passed, Heather dropped out of UCLA to pursue acting full time, over her parents objections. 1991 - Nominee - Emmy Awards - Outstanding Lead Actress in A Miniseries/TV Film - Paris Trout. Their subsequent friendship led to Heather's being cast in Diggstown (1992) , which starred Woods. 1990 - Winner - Emmy Awards - Outstanding Lead Actress In A Miniseries/TV Film - Killing in a Small Town. While pursuing a drama degree at UCLA, Heather met James Woods, the actor. 1989 - Nominee - Golden Globes - Best Supporting Actress - The Last Temptation of Christ. After high school, Heather enrolled in the University of California at Los Angeles. 1988 - Winner - Cannes Film Festival - Best Actress - A World Apart (shared with Jodhi May and Linda Mvusi).

This difference of opinion may have cost her the lead role in Heathers in 1989, the dark high school comedy that made an instant star of Winona Ryder. 1987 - Winner - Cannes Film Festival - Best Actress - Shy People. Later, her father and mother were insistent that she should not appear in any movie featuring sex. 1987 - Nominee - BAFTA Awards - Best Supporting Actress - Hannah and Her Sisters. Initially, Heather Graham's parents were very supportive of her budding acting career, with her mom driving her to her auditions. 1970 - Nominee - Laurel Awards - Female New Face - Last Summer. Her family then moved to the Conejo Valley in California where she attended Lindero Canyon Middle School, and finally, Agoura High School. 1967 - Winner - Western Heritage Awards - Fictional Television Drama - The Monroes (shared with cast and crew).

Growing up in Virginia where her father worked as an FBI agent, Heather Graham attended Sumac Elementary School. In what one hopes will not be her last hurrah as a film actress, she gave an unforgettable performance as Madame Merle in Jane Campion's 1996 adaptation of the Henry James novel "The Portrait of a Lady" - earning an Oscar nomination and winning the Best Supporting Actress award from the National Society of Film Critics. Heather Graham was brought up in a traditional Catholic family. But as an actress in her forties, she was once more forced into smaller independent films and television work. Heather Graham has a younger sister Aimee Graham, who is also an aspiring actress and writer. In 1990 she won an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Special for her harrowing turn as real-life murderer Candy Morrison in "A Killing in a Small Town". Heather Joan Graham (born January 29, 1970) is an American actress, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Heather Graham's father, Jim, is a retired FBI agent and her mother, Joan, is a noted author of children's books. For her role in the 1988 Bette Midler sudser "Beaches", she injected collagen into her lips - an act that drew a ridiculous amount on negative media coverage.

Soffel (1984). In mid-decade, she followed the commercial success of "Hannah and Her Sisters" with unprecedented back-to-back wins for Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival and Scorsese's long-awaited but fatally controversial "The Last Temptation of Christ". Mrs. Her performance as Glynnis Yeager in Philip Kaufman's 1983 film of "The Right Stuff" marked the true beginning of her career renaissance. Student Exchange (1987). Yet even in such uninspiring material, Hershey found the means of a giving committed, affecting performance - sufficiently impressing Michael Douglas to have him later fight to have her cast as his estranged wife in "Falling Down". License to Drive (1988). She would still need to pay dues in unglamorous vehicles like 1981's exploitation shocker "The Entity", where she played a woman repeatedly raped by an unseen supernatural force.

Twins (1988). The road back to industry acceptance would not be short or smooth. Drugstore Cowboy (1989). But her excellent work in Richard Rush's 1980 critical favorite "The Stunt Man" - her first big screen appearance in four years - served as a reminder to Hollywood that there was still a notably beautiful and talented actress in their midst. I Love You to Death (1990). However, the hippie label soon became a career impediment and by the late 1970s she was reduced to appearing in made-for-TV embarrassments like "Flood!" and "Sunshine Christmas". Guilty as Charged (1991). In characteristically free-spirited fashion, they would later recreate their love scene in a hay-filled boxcar for a Playboy magazine pictorial.

Shout (1991). Hershey's co-star in "Boxcar Bertha" was once again David Carradine. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992). Adapting that book into a film would become a 16 year labor of love for Scorsese, who would eventually cast Hershey as Mary Magdalene - though not before making her audition, to prove that she had earned it. Diggstown (1992). This image helped secure her the starring role in the 1972 Roger Corman production "Boxcar Bertha", which was being directed on the cheap by a fresh-out-of-film-school talent named Martin Scorsese. During filming, Hershey gave Scorsese a copy of her favorite book - Nikos Kazantzakis's "The Last Temptation of Christ". The Ballad of Little Jo (1993). Her 1970 film "The Baby Maker" explored the idea of surrogate motherhood many years before it became a mainstream reproductive option and cemented her image as a free-spirited hippie.

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1993). Hershey felt a sense of personal responsibility for its death and went by the name of Barbara Seagull for several years in the early 1970s as a tribute to the creature. Six Degrees of Separation (1993). During the filming of a scene for "Last Summer", a seagull was killed. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994). Hershey's powerful performance as a manipulative queen bee made a large impression on Woody Allen, who would later foster her mid-80s career revival by casting her in his greatest commercial success "Hannah and Her Sisters". Mrs. The film received an X rating for an unflinching rape scene and earned a Best Supporting Actress nomination for co-star Cathy Burns.

Don't Do It (1994). Later that year came the shocking drama "Last Summer", based on the novel by Evan Hunter (better known for his police procedurals written under the pseudonym Ed McBain) and directed by future "Mommy Dearest" helmsman Frank Perry. Let It Be Me (1995). (He later chose the name Tom for himself.). Run for Cover (1995). They became a romantic couple and a prominent symbol of the Hollywood counterculture - famously naming their child Free. Desert Winds (1995). This was followed by the 1969 Glenn Ford western "Heaven With A Gun", where one of her co-stars was future "Kung Fu" star David Carradine.

Kiss & Tell (1996). Her feature film debut was in the 1968 comedy "With Six You Get Eggroll" - which also marked Doris Day's final screen appearance. Terrified (1996). She found working on "The Monroes" to be such a dispiriting experience that she wrote pseudonymous letters to the producers asking that the show be cancelled. Swingers (1996). Her debut was guest starring in three episodes of Gidget in 1965, which she followed up with roles in the television series The Monroes (1966). Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story (1996). She attended Hollywood High School and quickly found her vocation.

Nowhere (1997). One of America's most accomplished actresses, Barbara Hershey was born Barbara Herzstein on February 5, 1948 in Hollywood, California where her father was a professional gambler. Two Girls and a Guy (1997). 5 February 1948) known for her many film roles. Boogie Nights (1997). Barbara Hershey is an American actress (b. Scream 2 (1997).

Lost in Space (1998). Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999). Bowfinger (1999). Committed (2000).

Say It Isn't So (2001). Sidewalks of New York (2001). From Hell (2001). Killing Me Softly (2002).

The Guru (2002). Alien Love Triangle (2002). Anger Management (2003). Hope Springs (2003).

Blessed (2004).