Anne Heche, best known for her roles in Six Days, Seven Nights, Donnie Brasco, and I Know What You Did Last Summer, has died in a car accident. She crashed her car into a house in Los Angeles, and both the car and the house caught fire.
According to News, Anne crashed her blue Mini Cooper into a home in Mar Vista, Los Angeles, on Friday, starting a fire. She was rushed to the hospital with severe burns all over her body. According to an eyewitness, the 53-year-old actor was “conscious and breathing” when she was taken on a stretcher.
According to the Los Angeles Fire Department, it took 59 firefighters 65 minutes to extinguish the fire caused by Anne’s car collision.
According to the Los Angeles Fire Department, it took 59 firefighters 65 minutes to put out the fire caused by Anne’s car colliding with a “heavily damaged” Mar Vista house.
Anne rose to prominence in the entertainment industry after starring as the twin in the soap opera Another World. She won a Daytime Emmy for the show in 1991. Her relationship with talk show host Ellen DeGeneres catapulted her to fame in the 1990s.