Anne Heche has proven herself an exceptional actress in film, television and stage. Her ta

lents have earned her critical praise as well as both Tony and Emmy Award nominations.

Heche earned her first prime time (黄金时段) Emmy Award nomination for her portrayal of a drug-addicted mother in the 2004 Lifetime Television original movie, Gracie's Choice, alongside Diane Ladd. She recently appeared in the Lifetime movie Fatal Desire and the Hallmark Channel's holiday movie, Silver Bells, on CBS, which was seen by over 16 million viewers. She has created memorable characters in several guest-starring performances on hit shows including Nip/Tuck, Everwood, Ally McBeal and HBO's telefilm If These Walls Could Talk, directed by Chef.

On the big screen Heche was last seen opposite Nicole Kidman and Lauren Bacall in New Line Cinema's Birth, directed by Jonathan Glazer. The plot line involved a woman (Kidman) who, to the dismay (沮丧，惊慌) of her friends (Heche) and family, believes that a 10-year-old boy is the reincarnation (化身) of her deceased husband. Birth was screened at the 2004 Venice Film Festival and the Deauville Film Festival.

Heche won The National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress for Barry Levinson's Wag the Dog, in which she appeared opposite Robert DeNiro and Dustin Hoffman. She starred opposite Harrison Ford in Six Days Seven Nights, with Tommy Lee Jones in Volcano, and achieved critical acclaim for her role in Donnie Brasco. She co-starred in Gus Van Zant's update of Psycho with Vince Vaughn and Julianne Moore, and in Auggie Rose, alongside Jeff Goldblum, which was screened at the Montreal Film Festival. In 2002 Heche co-starred in the Denzel Washington drama, John Q, and opposite Christina Ricci in the Miramax film, Prozac Nation.

Other film credits include Agnieska Holland's The Third Miracle, opposite Ed Harris, The Juror, with Demi Moore and Alec Baldwin, Walking and Talking, The Wild Side, Twist of Fate, Pie in the Sky, Milk Money, with Melanie Griffith, The Investigator and I'll Do Anything.

In 2002 Heche made her Broadway debut (初次登场，开张) in the critically acclaimed production of the Tony Award-winning play Proof. She garnered rave reviews across the board from theatre critics, and the show was extended, making it one of the longest running nonmusical plays in recent history. She triumphantly returned to Broadway in the Roundabout Theater stage production of Twentieth Century in 2004. Her critically acclaimed performance opposite Alec Baldwin earned her a Tony Award nomination for Best Lead Actress in a Play.

Also a writer and director, Heche wrote and directed a short feature entitled Reaching Normal for Showtime's First Director Series, as well as the second installment (部分) of If These Walls Could Talk II. In September 2001, Simon & Schuster published her autobiographical Call Me Crazy, which appeared on The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times bestseller lists.

What was theatre critics' reaction to Heche's first stage performance？

A．Sarcastic.

B．Fault-finding.

C．Mild.

D．Extremely enthusiastic.