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Heather Graham Profile: Childhood, Films, Career
Heather Joan Graham was born on the 29th of January, 1970, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her father, Jim, worked for the FBI, specialising in anti-terrorism techniques, while her mother, Joan, was a successful children's author. Graham was brought up in a traditional Catholic family of Irish descent. She's since estranged herself from the Catholic Church she grew up in, 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?" She's practiced transcendental meditation since 1991.
Her Father's FBI work meant the family were forced to relocate occasionally when Heather was very young, not easy for a shy girl. She'd attend her first elementary school in Virginia. Eventually, though, they'd settle in the Agoura Hills, just north of Los Angeles, where Heather would attend Sumac Elementary School, then Lindero Canyon Middle School, and finally Agoura High School.
At school, young Heather was not one of the popular crew. As said, she was mocked for her lack of breasts (they would come later. And keep coming), ignored by the boys and labelled a geek. More specifically, she was known as a "theatre geek". That acting bug had struck again. Heather's mother later recalled often finding her daughter behind the furniture, play-acting with her dollies. Heather herself remembers seeing Raiders Of The Lost Ark and being intrigued by a love scene between Harrison Ford and Karen Allen. That, she says, was when she "fell in love with the movies and the opposite sex".
Having first taken to the stage as Dorothy in a school production of The Wizard Of Oz, middle and high school saw Heather really go for it. In her high school sophomore year, she was President of the Drama Club, appearing in The Bad Seed, as the seductress Lola in Damn Yankees, and in many other productions. Her senior class would vote her Most Talented.
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Time Tunnel:
Ranked #4 in Stuff magazine's "102 Sexiest Women in the World" (2002).
Was named one of the 50 Most Beautiful People by People Magazine in 2001.
Played a porn actress twice: in The Guru (2002) and Boogie Nights (1997)
Modeling contract with Emanuel Ungaro Liberte.
Older sister of actress Aimee Graham.
Was fired from Scorchers (1991).
Was forced to turn down the lead role in Heathers (1989), because her parents thought the language was too risque.
Graduated 1988 Agoura High School, Agoura Hills, California. Dropped out of UCLA her freshman year to pursue acting
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What She Said?
“That was in the vein of an erotic thriller, a very difficult genre because if you don't get it right it becomes too giggly. Bodies aren't always beautiful and sometimes what is beautiful is not necessarily a bottom going up and down.”
“I love the script but I can't be in it because I can't be a porn star again. Everyone will judge me,”
“I gravitate to the rejects.”
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