Heather Burns a Chicago native, started out studying at Chicago’s famed Second City, spent a summer at Yale Drama school and earned a B.F.A. at New York University. After three years studying with the Atlantic Theater Company and several independent films, Burns appeared in two television pilots – Nearly Yours, directed by famed television director James Burrows for Dreamworks SKG/NBC and Chicks, written by Carol Leifer for the Greenblatt-Joanollari company and the Fox network. Other television appearances have included Law & Order and as a series regular on the Tom Fontana and Barry Levinson’s cop show, The Beat. Burns burst on to the scene in Nora Ephron’s You’ve Got Mail and has been busy ever since. With her first feature film, Burns set a trend – those who work with her almost always work with her again. She was recently seen in Ephron’s Bewitched, starring opposite Nicole Kidman and Will Ferrell.
