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Tuesday, 24 October, 2000, 09:46 GMT 10:46 UK
Heche 'to join Ally McBeal'
Anne Heche
Heche will play a client of the show's lawyer John Cage
Anne Heche is the latest Hollywood star to join the cast of hit US TV legal drama series Ally McBeal, it has been reported.

Heche, 31, is said to have signed up for three episodes of the Fox TV show, starring Calista Flockhart. The episodes are scheduled to be shown in the US in November.

She will portray a client of lawyer John Cage, played in the series by Peter MacNicol.

Ally McBeal
Ally McBeal: Celebrity appeal

Heche's film credits include I Know What You Did Last Summer, Donnie Brasco, Wag the Dog and Six Days, Seven Nights alongside Harrison Ford.

She is currently filming John Q with Denzel Washington. She plays a hospital administrator who refuses heart treatment to Washington's 10-year-old son.

Hollywood actor Robert Downey Jr is the most recent star to join the cast of Ally McBeal - which regularly attracts large audiences both sides of the Atlantic.

The Chaplin star, who was recently released from jail after serving a sentence for cocaine possession, will play Ally McBeal's love interest in the new series of the show.

Other high-profile celebrities to have appeared in the series include soul singer Barry White and former Charlie's Angel Farah Fawcett.

Robert Downey Jr
Downey Jr will play Ally McBeal's love interest

Although Heche is best known as a film actress, she has also been commended for her TV work, winning a daytime Emmy award for her role in the US soap Another World in 1991.

But she is just as well known for her 3�-year relationship with American comedy actress Ellen DeGeneres, the star of comedy series Ellen. The relationship ended "amicably" in August.

The couple were Hollywood's most famous same-sex couple. They were also considered to be one of the most stable, even though both said the Hollywood establishment had turned against them.

See also:

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