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Heather Graham - Overview

Date of Birth: Jan 29, 1970    
Place of Birth: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Nationality: American
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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 u... Read More
2009
Co-starred in the Todd Phillips-directed comedy, "The Hangover"
2007
Plays a woman who falls for her brother's fiancé in "Gray Matters"
2007
Played a heroin addict opposite Jeremy Sisto in the indie film, "Broken"
2006
Made her television series debut in the short-lived "Emily's Reasons Why Not" (ABC); show aired only one episode
2004
Will star as an attending psychiatrist in an eight-episode guest-starring role on NBC's "Scrubs"
2003
Co-starred in the romantic comedy "The Guru"
2002
Appeared opposite Joseph Fiennes in the erotically charged romance "Killing Me Softly"
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