Biography :Name : Heather grahamBirth Day : January 29, 1970Birth Place : Milwaukee, WisconsinA quiet, ostracized girl by her own account, Graham became paying attentiveness in acting at a young age. She had her first role as Dorothy in a school manufacture of The Wizard of Oz, and remained active in the theatre throughout high school, winning the title of "Most Talented" from her peers. After high school, Graham packed up and headed to Los Angeles, where she uncovered that talented as she may have been, it was no assurance of employment. She worked a variety of odd jobs, including a stint as an usher at the Hollywood Bowl, before making her 1988 film debut in License to make as the entity of Corey Haim's desire. The following year, Graham's career began to travel in a more auspicious direction when she was cast as a doomed drug addict in Gus Van Sant's critically acclaimed Drugstore Cowboy. Despite winning raves for her performance, Graham eluded stardom, as her successive film roles were largely incidental. However, she did win a frequent role on the long-running TV miniseries Twin Peaks in 1990, and the following year starred in the widely famous made-for-TV movie O Pioneers!.
After appearing in a the minority more films of varying quality (Six Degrees of division (1993) being at one end of the spectrum, 1994's Don't Do It, which paired her with Drugstore boyfriend James LeGros at the other), the actress finally got a break with the 1996 hit Swingers, appearing in a small but unforgettable role as the girl of Jon Favreau's dreams. The part marked the commencement of an upswing in Graham's career: the succeeding year she had a bit part in the movie-within-a-movie in Scream 2, which led to her addition on a Rolling Stone cover featuring the movie's assorted Hot Young Things, and also had her come through role in Boogie Nights. As Rollergirl, an under-dressed, over-sexed coke-snorting young porn actress, Graham made an ineffaceable impression on audiences everywhere. 1997 sustained to be the best year of the actress' career thus far: she also starred in Gregg Araki's Nowhere, in which she did little except for have copious amounts of sex with the in the same way golden-tressed Ryan Phillippe, and Two Girls and a Guy, a critically exceedingly praised piece that featured her as one of the title's two girls opposite Robert Downey Jr.'s guy.
Regrettably, Graham's first big-budget responsibility, the 1998 sci-fi film Lost in Space, was swallowed in a bottomless pit of critical and commercial quicksand. The actress more than rebounded the subsequent year, however, earning top billing in two films, the Steve Martin comedy Bowfinger and the eagerly-awaited Austin Powers sequel, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. The same year Graham earned the 1999 ShoWest convention's "Female Star of Tomorrow" title, additional assuring what looked like a very bright future for the young actress.
Playing Dorothy in her grade school's exaggerated production of "The Wizard of Oz" whetted Heather's desire to be an actress. So at Agoura High School, Heather took drama classes and appeared in the school's theatrical productions. While there, she overcome many of her schoolmates with her talent.
After high school, she headed out to Hollywood. She started doing TV, and landed her first movie role as Mercedes, Les' (Corey Haim) love attention, in the 1988 indie flick "License to Drive." She followed that with "Drugstore Cowboy" (1989).
Heather then enrolled in UCLA with a major in English. However, after two years, she might no longer resist the lure of the stage and dropped out of school to follow acting again. She got roles in distinguished movies such as "Six Degrees of Separation" (1993) and "Swingers" (1996) before "Boogie Nights" (1997) came beside. In this movie about the porn industry, she played the dim-witted, but sexy Rollergirl. The movie got people talking - and looking too. Her next big movie was "Lost in Space" (1998) where she played Judy Robinson. The movie was a discontent at the box office but it was Heather's first big budget movie. She plays conflicting Mike Myers in the absentee hit "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me" (1999) as Felicity Shagwell. In her personal life, Graham is romantically involved with actor Ed Burns. Though she's discarded her Catholic roots, she regularly practices Transcendental Meditation, and in calculation to her film work, has a modeling contract with Emanuel Ungaro. Not that Graham needs the additional income - she's poised to make the most of her 15 minutes of fame. She nabbed a starring role in one of summer 1999's most wildly predictable sequels, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, and hot on its heels will come the Steve Martin and Eddie Murphy starrer Bowfinger, a Hollywood satire penned by Martin.
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