After Anne Heche became known in the mid-1980s with her role in the US soap opera “Another World”, she achieved superstar status in the 1990s. Her performance in the comedy ‘Six Days, Seven Nights’ (1998) alongside Harrison Ford helped her to achieve this. A year earlier she had acted alongside two Hollywood legends. In the black comedy “Wag the Dog” Heche played an assistant to the US President who turns to a crisis manager (played by Robert De Niro, r.). The President wants to hide a sex scandal. To do that, De Niro’s team invents a war. A dedicated director (played by Dustin Hoffmann, left) should stage this as credibly as possible. Heche’s relationship with talk icon Ellen DeGeneres made headlines in the late 1990s. The two met at a Vanity Fair Oscar party in 1997. A “night that would change my life forever,” Heche once said. Both privately and professionally.