Heather Rae

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Heather Rae (born October 1, 1966) is an American film producer, director, and actress of partly Cherokee descent.[1] She produced Frozen River (2008), which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival as well as two Academy Awards nominations and was acquired by Sony Pictures Classics.

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[edit] Early life and education

Rae was born in Venice, California. She graduated from Evergreen State College.

[edit] Career

One of her first films was a short documentary in 1990 called Birth Our Own.[2] Other directing filmography includes Trudell (2005).[3]

Rae has also worked as an actress, in the movies Silent Tears (1998),[4] Backroads (2000),[5] Christmas in the Clouds (2001),[6] Most Funniest (2005),[7] Norman Waiting (2006), and Disappearance (2006).

Rae is married to screenwriter/director Russell Friedenberg and has three children.

As of the spring of 2008, Rae was an adjunct professor of communications at Boise State University, teaching "Producing the Independent Film".[8]

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