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 Born Heather Michele O'Rourke on December 27th 1975. Heather started showbiz at the young age of five when Steven spielberg came up to her why she was eating lunch at MGM. He asked her what her name was and she replied "My names Heather O'Rourke but your a stranger so I can't talk to you" when her mom came He introduced himself and asked her to do a screen test. she failed her first one by laughing at a stuffed animal Speilberg presented to her. But he called her back for another one He told her to scream and she screamed till she broke into tears. She entered Pop culture and became a star over night because over her part as Carol Anne in Poltergeist. she was easily recognized every where she went. In 1986 she started working on poltergeist 2 . It was almost as big of hit as the original. In 1987 she started to have flu like symptoms. The doctors said she had Chrons disease and put her on a chromosome which the result of that was the "Chipmunk Cheeks" which were very visible in poltergeist 3. Every thing was fine until super bowl sunday of 1988. she couldn't swallow anything and she crawled into bed with her parents saying she didn't feel good. The next morning she couldn't swallow her Gatorade or toast and her mother Kathleen noticed her fingers were blue so she called the doctor. She was getting her dressed to take her to the doctor when she fainted she called the ambulance and when they were putting her in she was insisting that she was fine and she wanted to go to school. Heather had developed an intestinal obstruction that caused part of her small intestine to bust they had emergency surgery performed and she survived the procedure but remained unconscious her body could not recover from the infection and the septic shock she also went through. at 2:43pm she was pronounced dead, her last words were I love you. She was laid to rest on February 5th, 1988 in Westwood Village Memorial Park. Her Plague reads: Heather O'Rourke - Beloved Daughter - Sister - "Carol Anne" - Poltergeist I, II, III.
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Happy Days - Heather Pfister(Heather O'Rourke) 1982-1983
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