Heather Michele O'Rourke was born on December 27 in year 1975 to Kathleen and Michael O'Rourke. She also had a older sister Tammy.She started her career very young.She won a local beauty pagent when she was 3 years old.She later start acting in comercials for McDonalds,Rainbow Brite dolls, Barbie dolls and some other stuff.Her acting talent was seen and short time after she was cast to play 1-episode role in "Fantasy Island".But her big career was just about to began.While her sister Tammy was filming "Pennies from Heaven" in MGM studio,Steven Spilberg,famous movie director known for the movies like "Star Wars","Indiana Jones" and "E.T",saw Heather standing there with her long blond hair and big blue eyes and he taught that she would be great for his new movie.Heather at first refuse to talk with him because her parents told her that she shouldn't talk with strangers.But,luckley her mother came in,and shortly after it was decided that little Heather will be the star of Spilberg's new horror movie "Poltergeist"in 1982.There she played a little girl named Carol Anne Freeling who is haunted by the ghosts in her home,because her house was built on old graveyard.There she said the line "They're heeere!" which is now one of the most famous horror movie quotes of all times. After "Poltergeist" Heather become one of the most wanted child actors in the 80's.Her other big role other than Carol Anne was the role of little Heather Pfister in sitcom "Happy Days".She was also in a movies like "Surviving a Family Crisis" and "Massarati and the Brain,and in apeard in a some episodes of "Webster" , "Chips", "Matt Houston" and some other series.She also apeard in Disneyland Fantasyland TV special: "Belive you can...and you can!" as herself.In 1986 she played Carol Anne again in "Poltergeist 2:The other Side".In 1987 she started to act secondary characters in series again.In 1988 she played Carol Anne for the last time in "Poltergeist 3".Sadly,her last Poltergeist movie was the last movie she ever done.In that year she started to feel ill.The doctors said that that's nothing serious and that she will be all right.But one day she felt very bad and her parents took her to hospital.It turned out that she was very sick.The doctors were planing for an operation but they were too late.Little Heather died at the operation table from the Chron's disease complicated from the septic shock.She was buried in Westwood Village Memorial Park Cementry.On her grave says: Heather Michele O'Rourke-beloved daughter,sister-Carol Anne Poltergeist 1,2,3.Heather's friends,family and colleagues said that Heather was pretty,sweet,charming and very talented at such a young age.She was a real kid who didn't let showbuisnes to change her like it happened to a lot of child stars.She was a great sister and a daughter and a wonderful friend.Heather Michele O'Rourke would be 38 years old today.I'm guessing she would be one of the top actresses in Hollywood consider how talented she was at age of 5 to 12,and I'm guessing she would be very pretty consider how she looked back than.She is still very missed and number of her fans is growing every day.Every Heather fan has the same motto: HEATHER O'ROURKE LIVES FOREVER!!!!! <3