Heather Donahue (born December 22, 1974) is an American actress famous for her role, which she undertook using her real name, in the movie The Blair Witch Project.
Donahue was born in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Joan, an office manager, and James Donahue, a printer, and sibling to Beth, of Springfield PA, a professional juggler, and George of Milwaukee, manager of the musical act "Lizzy Bruno is a Bully". She learned to read at an ...
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Heather Donahue (born December 22, 1974) is an American actress famous for her role, which she undertook using her real name, in the movie The Blair Witch Project.
Donahue was born in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Joan, an office manager, and James Donahue, a printer, and sibling to Beth, of Springfield PA, a professional juggler, and George of Milwaukee, manager of the musical act "Lizzy Bruno is a Bully". She learned to read at an early age, which inspired her to act. She performed in a lot of musicals in elementary school before she began training at the Lawrence Street Theater School in High School. Donahue then went on to the University of the Arts Conservatory Program in Philadelphia. She worked in regional theater in Philadelphia, and did a few experimental theatre projects with a group known as Collision Theory that had a documentary style similar to the Blair Witch Project She graduated from Upper Darby High School in Pennsylvania in 1991 and from the...
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