Heidi Dene was born, raised, and spent much of her life in Arizona with the exception of a few years early on when she lived in Costa Rica. Heidi began her career in the performing arts at an early age beginning with gymnastics & dance. She attended Scottsdale Community College to pursue her dreams of the performing arts in dance & theater. Heidi was awarded a dance scholarship to ASU, however, sports injuries and life moved her in the direction of Boston. Here she performed & trained at the Berkshire theater festival.After returning to Arizona, Heidi performed at local community theaters and in several award winning indie films & award winning shorts. Since moving to Hollywood, she has received critically acclaimed training from the Groundlings School of improv and other great schools of acting. Since her arrival, many doors have opened for her with a feature film, several comedy pilots, & multiple commercials as well as the recurring role of a detective on Discovery channel's Homicide Hunter: Lt. Joe Kenda (2011), and the role of a FBI Agent on the Day of Our Lives.Some of the actor's Heidi has gained inspiration from are Angelina Jolie, Lucy Liu & Christina Cox. Heidi Dene would love nothing more than to be a powerful female acting force and follow as well as create new in-roads into Hollywood like the aforementioned actors. Show less «