Anne Heche: Rebirth

Anne Heche, who has been nominated for an Emmy and a Tony award this year, says that she has been able to focus on her career now that she has found her family.

Named by People magazine as one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world in 1998, she had a two-year relationship with Steve Martin, was one half of Hollywood's most famous lesbian couple with Ellen DeGeneres for over two years, and wrote a book recounting childhood sexual abuse by her father before marrying cameraman Coleman "Coley" Laffoon in 2001. They have a 2-1/2-year-old boy, Homer

Before she found Coley, she tells The Early Show co-anchor Harry Smith, "I was, like, 'Where is my love? Where is my foundation?' And I found it, and now I'm able to have the career."

Heche garnered the Emmy nomination for supporting actress for her role as an abusive mother in "Gracie's Choice," and the Tony nod for best lead actress for her role in "Twentieth Century" as Lily Garland, a melodramatic movie star whom impresario Oscar Jaffe is trying to lure back to the stage.

She also stars along with Nicole Kidman in the controversial new film "Birth," about a woman who thinks her deceased husband has been reincarnated in the form of a 10-year-old boy.

"I can't tell you who I am, or what I am, or why I am that, because then I'll give the movie away, and I don't want to do that," says Heche.

She also appears in "Everwood," a family drama about a Manhattan surgeon who moves to a small town in the Rocky Mountains with his son. The show is notable for tackling hot-button issues like teen abortion, married men who are gay and medical marijuana.

Her character is Amanda Hayes, a woman whose husband becomes paraplegic. "This is kind of an interesting issue: how do you create a relationship when you, in a way, have lost a husband, but yet you still live with him and he's still a part of your life - and can you move on?"

Heche predicts her character will remain on the show for fewer than 10 episodes, due to the storyline.