Name	Heather Donahue
Height	5' 8"
Naionality	American
Date of Birth	22 December 1974
Place of Birth	Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, USA
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An acting school graduate, Heather Donahue got her start on theater, performing in her hometown of Philadelphia and appearing on stage in London and New York before finally applying her crafts for the wide-screen projects. Selected for her improvisational ability, Donahue made a jump-start to film in 1999 when she was cast along side fellow actors Joshua Leonard and Michael Williams to star in The Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez-directed The Blair Witch Project, playing the three ill-fated directors (their characters used their own names) traveling to Maryland to make a documentary film about a local urban legend... “The Blair Witch” for a college project but their disappeared and their film and video was found in the woods one year later. Shot on a little budget, premiered at midnight at the Sundance Film Festival and attractively marketed as a “real” documentary with an Internet site detailing the legend, the film horror/thriller became a surprising blockbuster. As for Donahue, the film’s success helped her catapult her status though she was garnered a 2000 Razzie for Worst Actress.

Donahue followed it up with a starring role in director-writer Philip Botti’s Home Field Advantage (2000) and a supporting part of a socially clumsy engineering student named Megan in Robert Iscove’s Boys and Girls (2000). The drama-romance starred Freddie Prinze Jr., Claire Forlani and Jason Biggs. Next up, Donahue was cast as one of a group of upper-class twentysomethings spending a weekend together in a house on New York’s Fisher Island in the comedy-drama Seven and a Match (2001) for director Derek Simonds, did a voice over for the animated short The Velvet Tigress (2001) and re-teamed with Botti for his short/comedy film The Walking Hack of Asbury Park (2002). Also in 2002, she found herself acting opposite Jordan Bridges and Marisa Coughlan in the comedy movie New Suit (2002).

Aside her movie career, Donahue also frequently appeared on the small screen. She made her television movie debut on the mockumentary Curse of the Blair Witch (1999, Sci-Fi Channel), then two years later guest starred in an episode of “The Outer Limits.” After finishing her last movie in 2002, Donahue began focusing her passion on television. In 2002, she was featured as the adult Mary Crawford in the Steven Spielberg-produced miniseries based around tales of alien kidnap called “Taken” and appeared in the made-for-TV movie The Big Time. The following years saw the actress make guest performances as Linda Schmidt in the series “Without a Trace” (2003) and Stacy Corvelli in an episode of “It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia” (2005). She also costarred as Cpl. Keats in the sci-fi movie Manticore (2005) opposite Robert Beltran and Jeff Fahey.