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Heather Donahue

Highest Rated: 86% The Blair Witch Project (1999)

Lowest Rated: 11% Boys and Girls (2000)

Birthday: Dec 22, 1974

Birthplace: Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, USA

Though she may never eat a Powerbar again, Heather Donahue claims she would "do it again in a heartbeat," subject herself to the guerilla filmmaking methods of Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez, co-directors of the surprise blockbuster "The Blair Witch Project" (1999). Chosen for her improvisational ability following five call-back auditions, she found herself, along with fellow actors Joshua Leonard and Michael Williams, smack in the middle of a conceptual piece, filming the raw footage that would become "Blair Witch" after a two-day crash course on how to load and operate both 16mm and Hi-8 video cameras. Equipping their charges with Global Positioning System (GPS) headsets, the directors deposited them in the Maryland woods and led them to predetermined sites where the exercise in first-person terror would play out. The shoot covered eight days, and the actors really roughed it, camping out and sometimes having their sleep interrupted by the production team creating drama for them to capture.

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Highest-Rated Movies

86% 57% The Blair Witch Project Watchlist
73% 43% New Suit
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11% 50% Boys and Girls
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7% The Morgue
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0% Morgue
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61% Seven and a Match
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13% Manticore
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Filmography

Movies TV Shows
The Morgue 7% 2008 Nan Actor Morgue 0% 2008 Actor Manticore 13% 2005 Cpl. Keats Actor New Suit 73% 43% 2002 Molly Actor Seven and a Match 61% 2001 Whit Actor Boys and Girls 11% 50% 2000 Megan Actor The Blair Witch Project 86% 57% 1999 Heather Donahue Actor
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