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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 . She is a convert to Hinduism.
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."
Filmography
* Mrs. Soffel (1984)
* Student Exchange (1987)
* Twins (1988)
* License to Drive (1988)
* Drugstore Cowboy (1989)
* I Love You to Death (1990)
* Shout (1991)
* Guilty as Charged (1991)
* Diggstown (1992)
* Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)
* Six Degrees of Separation (1993)
* Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1993)
* The Ballad of Little Jo (1993)
* Don't Do It (1994)
* Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994)
* Desert Winds (1995)
* Run for Cover (1995)
* Let It Be Me (1995)
* Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story (1996)
* Swingers (1996)
* Terrified (1996)
* Kiss & Tell (1996)
* Nowhere (1997)
* Scream 2 (1997)
* Boogie Nights (1997)
* Two Girls and a Guy (1997)
* Lost in Space (1998)
* Bowfinger (1999)
* Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)
* Committed (2000)
* From Hell (2001)
* Sidewalks of New York (2001)
* Say It Isn't So (2001)
* Alien Love Triangle (2002)
* The Guru (2002)
* Killing Me Softly (2002)
* Hope Springs (2003)
* Anger Management (2003)
* Blessed (2004)
* Cake (2005)
* Mary (2005)
* Scrubs (2005)
* Bobby (2006)
* The OH in Ohio (unbilled) (2006)
* Emily's Reasons Why Not (2006)
* Gray Matters (2007)
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