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Nov 28, 2022 · A graduate of Rutgers University, he is the married father of two kids who believe he is ridiculous. Katherine Heigl tells the TODAY show she credits her mother, Nancy Heigl, for helping her...
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Heigl and her mother, Nancy, started Heigl's Hounds of Hope, which operates as part of the Jason Debus Heigl Foundation. The Foundation was created in honor of Heigl's brother, who was killed in a car accident in 1986 at the age of fifteen.
Katherine Marie Heigl was born on November 24, 1978 in Washington, D.C., to Nancy Heigl (née Engelhardt), a personnel manager, and Paul Heigl, an accountant and executive. Her father is of German/Swiss-German and Irish descent, and her mother is of German ancestry.
- November 24, 1978
- Her Family Moved Constantly. Nancy, a personal manager, and Paul Heigl, a financial executive and accountant, gave birth to their youngest daughter, Katherine Marie, in November 1978.
- Her Childhood was Tragic. When Heigl's older brother Jason was just 15, he was thrown from the back of a pickup truck. After a week of battling his severe injuries, doctors pronounced that he was brain dead.
- She Started Early. Heigl found her calling at a very young age. She was just nine when her aunt took some pictures of her and sent them out to a few modelling agencies, with her parent’s consent of course.
- Her Big Break was Controversial. Clearly an early starter, Heigl began to act in films at the tender age of 11. Her debut was in “That Night” and she then got a role in Steven Soderbergh’s “King of the Hill” in 1993.
Dec 2, 2022 · "Firefly Lane" star Katherine Heigl sits down with Drew to share her love of her "strong mother," and explains the meaning behind her charity aiming to end animal cruelty "The Jason Debus...
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Her father is of German (including Swiss-German) and Irish descent, and her mother is of German ancestry. Her siblings are Meg (adopted), Jason (deceased), and Holt. Heigl lived in Northern Virginia and then Denver, before her family moved to the town of New Canaan, Connecticut, when Katherine was five, and where she lived the rest of her ...