---
name: "Heather O'Rourke"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/heather-orourke"
fi1m_id: "heather-orourke"
imdb_id: "nm0001576"
tmdb_id: 10086
wikidata_id: "Q230965"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "27 December 1975"
died: "1 February 1988"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T23:35:48.497921+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Heather O'Rourke

## Identity

Heather O'Rourke

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/heather-orourke
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** heather-orourke
- **IMDb ID:** nm0001576
- **TMDB ID:** 10086
- **Wikidata ID:** Q230965
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_O%27Rourke, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q230965, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001576/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/10086

Actor. Born 27 December 1975 in San Diego, California, USA. Died 1 February 1988.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 27 December 1975, San Diego, California, USA
- **Died:** 1 February 1988
- **Also known as:** Heather Michele O'Rourke
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_O%27Rourke, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q230965, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001576/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/10086

## Biography

Heather Michele O'Rourke was an American child actress. She was born on 27 December 1975 in San Diego, California, and died on 1 February 1988 in the same city.

O'Rourke played Carol Anne Freeling in the horror film *Poltergeist* (1982). She reprised the role in *Poltergeist II: The Other Side* (1986) and *Poltergeist III* (1988). She also appeared in recurring roles on the television series *Happy Days* (1982–1983) as Heather Pfister and *Webster* (1983) as Melanie.

She had an older sister, Tammy O'Rourke, who also acted. O'Rourke was discovered by Steven Spielberg while visiting a film studio.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Poltergeist* (1982), Fi1m 84, as Carol Anne Freeling — [page](https://film.one/film/poltergeist.md)

## Complete filmography (12)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Curse of Poltergeist* (2002), Actor
- *Poltergeist III* (1988), as Carol Anne Freeling
- *Our House* (1986), series, as Dana
- *Poltergeist II: The Other Side* (1986), as Carol Anne Freeling
- *Rocky Road* (1985), series, as Russian Girl
- *Surviving* (1985), as Sarah Brogan
- *Finder of Lost Loves* (1984), series, as Jillian Marsh
- *Webster* (1983), series, Actor
- *Massarati and the Brain* (1982), as Skye Henry
- *Poltergeist* (1982), as Carol Anne Freeling — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/poltergeist.md)
- *CHiPs* (1977), series, Actor
- *Happy Days* (1974), series, as Heather Pfister

## Gallery

- ![Heather O'Rourke](https://film.one/media/person/117716/gallery-ec7295e9ad23.jpg) Heather O'Rourke — American Broadcasting Company, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/Heather_O%27Rourke_in_Happy_Days_%281982_ABC_Press_photo%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Patrick Little and a woman standing on one of the sidewalks of Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles holding hateful placards. Bystanders denounce them. (2018)](https://film.one/media/person/117716/gallery-8ac73a5e6827.jpg) Patrick Little and a woman standing on one of the sidewalks of Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles holding hateful placards. Bystanders denounce them. (2018) — Blackeyelion, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Man_holds_hateful_sign_in_Beverly_Hills.jpg/1280px-Man_holds_hateful_sign_in_Beverly_Hills.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Heather O'Rourke](https://film.one/media/person/117716/gallery-95839e89c881.jpg) Heather O'Rourke — Image via TMDB
- ![Heather O'Rourke](https://film.one/media/person/117716/gallery-fa19d753c900.jpg) Heather O'Rourke — Image via TMDB

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