US actress Anne Hatch is legally dead but will remain on life support to allow for a possible organ donation, her representative has said.
The 53-year-old was in a coma for a week after crashing her car into a house in Los Angeles.
“Today we lost a light, kind and most joyful soul,” her family said in a statement on Friday.
Hatch, a mother of two, has starred in many films, including Vulcan, Donnie Brasco and the 1998 remake of Psycho.
The actress had a serious accident when she crashed her car into a house, and then the vehicle caught fire.
Dozens of firefighters extinguished the fire for an hour.
In addition to the burns, the actress also suffered a severe brain injury and was put on ventilators in the hospital, her family said.
Her spokesperson said the actress was “legally dead” but added that she would temporarily remain on life support to determine if any of her organs could be donated.
“Ann will be greatly missed, but will live on through her beautiful sons, her iconic and passionate work.” Her courage will always have a lasting impact,” her family said in a statement.
Hatch was born in 1969 in Ohio and her family moved many times during her childhood.
When she was 13, her father died of AIDS, and she later revealed in a 2001 memoir that he had repeatedly raped her as a child.
In interviews promoting the book, she said that the abuse caused her to be “crazy” for the first 31 years of her life and that she created a fantasy world, which she called “The Fourth Dimension”, to feel safe.
Three months after her father’s death, her brother was killed in a car accident, believed to have committed suicide.
Her mother disputed both the claims of suicide and abuse of her daughter and the two subsequently became estranged.
After she moved to Chicago, a talent scout spotted Hatch in a school play.
She broke into the film industry with a role in the soap opera Another World in the 1980s, and the role of the twin brought her several awards.
She gained wider popularity in the late 1990s, playing Maggie in the crime drama Donnie Brasco, alongside Johnny Depp.
In a later interview with the famous American TV host Larry King, she said that working with Depp was heaven.
She played Amy Barnes, a geologist and seismologist in Vulcan alongside Tommy Lee Jones, while in the cult film I Know What You Did Last Summer (I Know What You Did Last Summer) starring Melissa “Missy” Egan.
She also played in an action comedy Six Days, Seven Nights (Six Days, Seven Nights) and a dramatic thriller Return to Paradise (Return to Paradise), and then she portrayed the character of Marion Crane in the remake of the classic thriller Psycho, directed by Gus Van Sant.
Until 1997, she had fun with men, but then she started a relationship with the famous American TV host Ellen DeGeneres.
They said they would marry, that is, create a civil union if same-sex marriage was approved in Vermont, but they separated three years later.
Hatch later had mental problems and allegedly took drugs.
There was also an incident when she was hospitalized after she parked her car on a highway in California and went into the desert.
In 2001, Hatch married Collie Lafoon, a cameraman she met on Ellen DeGeneres’ stand-up tour.
They had a son, and almost six years later they divorced.
She allegedly left her husband for her co-star Men in Trees (Men in the Trees) by James Tapper, so that in 2008 her representative confirmed that the actress was pregnant and then gave birth to a second son.
The couple divorced in 2018.
In the early 2000s, Hatch acted less in blockbusters and more accepted roles in independent and acclaimed films, such as the drama Birth (Birth) and comedy Spread and Cedar Rapids from 2011 about a naïve insurance agent whose life changes on a business trip to Iowa.
She was nominated for an Emmy Award for her role as Rowena Lawson in the TV movie Gracie’s Choice from 2004, about a teenage girl who tries to raise her siblings on her own after their drug addict mother is sent to prison.
In the same year, she was nominated for Best Actress at the Tony Awards for Ulou u Twentieth Century (Twentieth Century), paired with Alec Baldwin.
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