Heather Joan
Graham (born January 29, 1970, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
is an American film and television actress.
Childhood and early career: Her father, Jim, is a
retired FBI agent and her mother, Joan, is a noted
author of children's books. Graham has a younger sister,
Aimee, who is also an aspiring actress and writer. The
family followed a strict traditional Catholic upbringing
of Irish descent. Heather has since estranged herself
from the Catholic Church, saying it is: "made up of
closed-minded men who believe a woman's sexuality is
evil...Why do I have to do what all these men are
saying?" . Heather has practiced transcendental
meditation since 1991.
Spending her early years in Virginia, Graham attended
North Springfield Elementary School in Springfield,
Virginia. Her family then moved to the Conejo Valley,
Los Angeles, California, where she attended Sumac
Elementary School, Lindero Canyon Middle School, and
Agoura High School where she graduated in 1988.
Initially, Heather's parents were supportive of her
budding acting career. However, her parents were
concerned that she should not appear in any movie
featuring sex or nudity. Breaking away from that mold,
Heather appeared fully nude in several scenes in her
breakout role in Boogie Nights. Heather is currently
estranged from her parents, who are still devout
Catholics. In 1991, she appeared in the TV series Twin
Peaks as Annie Blackburn, Agent Cooper's second-season
love interest.
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. Their subsequent
romantic involvement might have led to her being cast in
the movie Diggstown (1992), which starred Woods. After
two years had passed, Graham stopped taking classes at
UCLA to pursue acting full time, over her parents'
objections. She then moved to Hollywood, Calif., where
she worked different jobs while continuing to establish
herself as an actress.
Film and television career: As a supporting
actress, Graham was cast in a number of parts that
brought her critical notice, including Nadine in
Drugstore Cowboy (1989). However, her breakthrough role
was that of 1970s porn starlet Roller Girl in Boogie
Nights (1997), for which she received several award
nominations. Her first starring role was in 1999 with
her lead role as Felicity Shagwell in Austin Powers: The
Spy Who Shagged Me. She also appeared in the music video
for "American Woman"- a song which Lenny
Kravitz covered for the film's soundtrack. More
recently, she starred as Mary Kelly in the film From
Hell (2001), based on the story of Jack the Ripper.
Although Heather 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 in the less
successful Killing Me Softly.
She was named by People Magazine as one of the "50
Most Beautiful People in the World 2001". She 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 1993 (titled "#3, Entourage") is still
appearing in national magazines today as well.
Heather's most recent project was starring 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 Magazine 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.
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 had a small part in the acclaimed "Mrs.
Parker and the Vicious Circle" (also 1994), and
took the starring role in the direct-to-video release
"Toughguy/Terrified" (1995), before offering a
memorable supporting turn as Lorraine, a swing dancing
beauty who is able to pull Jon Favreau's heartbroken
Mike out of his funk in 1996's "Swingers".
This role helped to re-establish Graham, who was next
seen in 1997's celebrated "Boogie Nights" as
Rollergirl, a young porn star who is never without her
skates. Graham's energetic portrayal of Rollergirl, the
'daughter' of the film's surrogate family setup,
conveyed a surprising and touching innocence and humor,
with her uncharacteristic brutal attack on a high school
tormentor near the film's end serving as a particularly
well-acted dramatic highlight. She followed this
attention-grabbing performance with a cameo in
"Scream 2", playing Drew Barrymore's character
from the original in "Stab", the slasher
film-within-a-slasher film. Also in 1997, Graham
co-starred with Natasha Gregson Wagner and Robert Downey
Jr. in "Two Girls and a Guy", a real-time look
at a wandering boyfriend, and the confrontation between
him and two of his misled lovers. She was a shining part
of the otherwise disappointing film, and the
eye-flashing ferocity unleashed in her scenes with
Downey proved her more than just a pretty face.
After the overt sexuality of her last two starring
efforts, Graham went studious as Dr. Judy Robinson in
the feature adaptation of "Lost in Space"
(1998), spurning the advances of Matt LeBlanc and
outfitted from wrist to ankle in modest astro-jumpsuits.
In 1999 she reached her largest audience, co-starring as
Felicity Shagwell, 1960s CIA agent in the blockbuster
sequel "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged
Me". Decked out in risqué mod-meets-flower child
gear and purring memorably cheeky lines such as
"Shagwell by name, shag very well by
reputation", Graham's sweet and sultry presence was
the perfect swinging counterpart to Mike Myers' Powers.
She followed up with a role in the comedy
"Bowfinger" (also 1999), starring alongside
Steve Martin (who also penned the script) and Eddie
Murphy as a young Hollywood hopeful, fresh from Ohio who
dates her way to the top, only to break the heart of her
last conquest (Martin) when she leaves him to cash in on
the precarious lesbian chic with a powerful Tinseltown
woman. Her character's similarity to Graham's previous
co-star (and Martin's former love interest) Anne Heche
sparked much speculation. In 2000, Graham starred
opposite Luke Wilson as an abandoned wife on a mission
to keep her vows, seeking out her husband on a whirlwind
road trip in "Committed", a film featuring a
cast with dozens of young up and coming actors and hip
musicians.
Graham proved to be solid in 2001, starring in the indie
romantic comedy "Sidewalks of New York"
opposite Ed Burns. Also in 2001, perhaps unwisely,
Graham jumped on the teen gross-out train with the
gigantic flop "Say It Isn't So." While the
movie was produced by the legendary Farrelly brothers,
it lacked any kind of a comic spark and was one of a few
disasters signaling the end of the repulsive comedy
genre. Graham's reputation, however, remained intact
after this small misstep, and she was cast as
Whitechapel prostitute Mary Kelly in the Hughes
brothers' film adaptation of the Jack the Ripper comic
book "From Hell" (2001) opposite Johnny Deep.
The actress equated herself well, although saddled with
a faux British accent and improbably ravishing for a
destitute whore in 1880s London.
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 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. Adding
embarrassment to failure, Graham was featured in a cover
story of Life magazine calling her “TV’s sexiest
star” and touting her new show just days after the
cancellation announcement—too late to change once the
magazine had already gone to print.
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