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Heather Graham was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on
January 29th, 1970. Soon after that, Heather was joined by her baby
sister, Aimee, and they attended their very first elementary school
in Virginia because her father worked for the FBI and they were
forced to relocate quite often.
After having been shuffled around again, Heather and her little
sister attended Sumac Elementary. A little while after that, they
attended a school called Lindero Canyon Middle School.
By the time Heather got to Agoura High School, she had a hard time
making friends, since she was always moving before she had a chance
to develop serious friendships.
While studying at Agoura, she was teased because she was a quiet
girl and because she wasn't fully developed physically. She was even
considered a theater geek by her peers.
Not only was Heather considered uncool at school, but her family
life became increasingly uncomfortable as she began to follow her
dream of becoming an actress. Although her mother would drive her to
Hollywood for auditions, the tension began mounting so high between
Heather and her family that she eventually stopped communicating
with them altogether.
Heather was relieved to have finally graduated from Agoura, even
though she was voted most talented by her senior class. Her start as
an actress wasn't glamorous, as are most actors' start.
   
Heather went from odd job to odd job, eventually landing various
roles and bit parts in movies such as License To Drive and the
critically acclaimed Drugstore Cowboy, which starred Matt Dillon. As
well, Heather also appeared on the small screen in the popular
television drama Twin Peaks.
After some success in Hollywood, Heather decided to enroll in the
University of California at Los Angeles. Her major was in English
Literature, but unfortunately she dropped out after only two years.
She did, however, come away with something positive.
It was at UCLA that Heather first read one of her favorite books by
Dostoevsky, entitled The Brothers Karamazov. It was this book that
impressed renowned actor James Woods when he first spotted the
blonde bombshell. In 1992, Heather landed a small role in Diggstown;
a movie that Woods starred in.
In the next few years that followed, Heather went on to play diverse
roles in films such as Six Degrees of Separation, which starred Will
Smith, Don't Do It and Even Cowgirls Get The Blues. While Heather
was furthering her acting career, she piqued the interest of
filmmakers like James Toback and Jon Favreau. Apparently, Favreau
took Heather swing dancing one night, and a year and a half later,
she played Lorraine in his nearly legendary movie Swingers. Toback
soon after had his opportunity to work with her and cast her in his
film entitled Two Girls and A Guy.
But it was in 1997, that Heather got her breakout role and would not
soon be forgotten. She played "Rollergirl," a young porn actress who
constantly wore roller-skates everywhere she went, in the true story
of renowned porn actor John Holmes' life entitled Boogie Nights.
   
After that, Heather was in high demand and made a cameo appearance
in Scream 2, in which she spoofed Drew Barrymore's role as the
popcorn popping first victim of the of the original film. She then
appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine, which had men
everywhere drooling over the latest starlet in Hollywood.
Rolling Stone wasn't the only magazine cover that Heather graced,
her face, once obscure and unknown to the world, had begun to grace
the covers of a multitude of magazine covers.
Along with a modeling contract with Emanuel Ungaro, Heather has
starred in some big budget films including Lost In Space, Austin
Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me and Bowfinger, which also stars Eddie
Murphy and Steve Martin.
We saw more of this swinging sensation in roles like Say It Isn't
So, Sidewalks Of New York (in which she co-starred her former
boyfriend, Edward Burns), From Hell.
She will next be seen reprising her role of Felicity Shagwell in the
third installment of Austin Powers -- Goldmember -- as well as Hope
Springs, Killing Me Softly, and The Guru.
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