U.S. actor Anne Heche is taken off life support and dies 9 days after car crash

American actor Anne Heche was taken off life support on Sunday, nine days after suffering severe injuries in a fiery car crash, and has died as a compatible person was found to receive her donated organs, a spokesperson said.

Heche, 53, had been legally dead since Friday, though still with a heartbeat, and was kept on life support to preserve her organs so they could be donated, the representative said.

(Reporting by Daniel Trotta; editing by Diane Craft)