Actress Anne Heche remained in a coma and was not expected to survive injuries she suffered in a car accident last week, according to a statement her publicist released Thursday night on behalf of her family and friends.
Ms. Heche, 53, was seriously injured Aug. 5 when the Mini Cooper she was in crashed into a home in the Mar Vista neighborhood of Los Angeles, authorities said. She suffered a severe anoxic brain injury and was being treated at West Hills Hospital’s Grossman Burn Center, the family said in a statement.
“It has long been her choice to donate her organs and she is being kept on life support to determine if any are viable,” the statement said.
The crash sparked a fire that took 59 firefighters more than an hour to extinguish, the Los Angeles Fire Department said. Ms. Heche was the only person in the car, authorities said.
On Monday, a different representative, Michael A. McConnell, told Reuters that Ms. Heche had not regained consciousness since shortly after the accident.
In 1991, Ms. Heche won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series, for playing the good and bad twins on the NBC soap opera “Another World.”
He starred in several popular Hollywood films in the late 1990s, including “Donnie Brasco,” “Wag the Dog” and “Six Days Seven Nights.” He continued to have roles on television, including “Men in Trees” in 2006 and “Hung” in 2009, and acted on Broadway, starring in “Proof” in 2002 and “Twentieth Century” in 2004, for which he received a nomination to Tony .
He has several projects in post-production, according to IMDb, including “Supercell,” a movie with Alec Baldwin, and the HBO show “The Idol.” She had recently finished shooting “Girl in Room 13,” a Lifetime movie set for release in September, Variety reported.
Mike Ives contributed reporting from Seoul.