Stage and Screen Star Anne Heche Signs on to 'Cedar Rapids' and 'The Other Guys'

According to Variety, stage and screen star, and frequent tabloid subject, Anne Heche has signed onto two new films: Cedar Rapids and The Other Guys.

In Cedar Rapids, Heche will play the friend and confidant of an insurance agent (Ed Helms) who attempts to save the jobs of multiple colleagues at an insurance convention. The Fox/Searchlight comedy, by Phil Johnston who developed it with Helms, is produced by Alexander Payne and is directed by Miguel Arteta. 

In The Other Guys, Heche will star opposite Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg, a second comedy in which she will play a businesswoman who hires cops (Ferrell and Wahlberg), to investigate financial losses at her company.  The film is produced by Columbia Pictures.

No production details or additional casting for either film has been announced.

Heche can currently be seen in the role of Jessica on HBO's Hung.  Tony nominated for her role in Proof on Broadway, Heche also appeared on the Great White Way in Twentieth Century. She has won an Emmy Award for Another World and has appeared in such films as "The Juror" (1996), "Walking and Talking' with Catherine Keener (1996), "Donnie Brasco" opposite Johnny Depp (1997), "Volcano," and Barry Levinson's political satire "Wag the Dog" (1997).

 

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