By Andrew C. Stone, Photographs: Randall Slavin/Creative 24

or more than two decades, the movie-going public has been nursing an epic crush on Heather Graham. The radiant blonde star, born in milwaukee, wisconsin, is many things to many people—the fresh-faced girlfriend, the ingénue, the femme fatale, the babe who could launch a thousand fistfights. her extensive résumé includes roles in unforgettable films such as Boogie Nights (as roller Girl), Swingers, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (Felicity shagwell), Drugstore Cowboy… and let us not forget her turn as Annie Blackburn in David Lynch’s TV series nonpareil, Twin Peaks. The tinseltown icon has also starred in memorable projects like Bobby, Gray Matters, The OH in Ohio, Bowfinger, The Guru, Cake (which she also produced) and TV’s Emily’s Reasons Why Not, as well as doing a guest stint on Scrubs. It’s a long, varied filmography any gal would be proud of. And the plum roles keep coming.

Ttake her latest film, The Hangover. It’s a highly unorthodox buddy romp that takes place on a sun-drenched Las Vegas day. three incredibly hungover friends—played pitch-perfectly by BradleyCooper, Zach Galifianakis and Ed Helms—try to piece together their forgotten evening that resulted in a tiger in their hotel room, an unclaimed baby, Mike Tyson and a missing friend whose wedding stands on the brink of destruction. Graham plays a doe-eyed stripper/escort who managed to get hitched to Helms’s character sometime around 3 a.m.

We caught up with Graham just as The Hangover started generating buzz, to talk babes, boobs and perhaps her greatest role ever—Mercedes Lane in License to Drive ...

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