Heather O’ Rourke

Heather O’ Rourke is a former child actress who first appeared on the television show Fantasy Island when she was just five years old. If you’ve watched Steven Spielberg’s horror movie Poltergeist, she portrayed Carol Anne Freeling. She also appeared in the next two sequels, but the third one was a posthumous release as she was diagnosed with Crohn’ s disease and giardiasis disease.

In 1988, she had a cardiac arrest and experienced septic shock which killed her. This young actress had a dream to win an Academy Award – it’s too bad we never got to see her on the Oscars stage. The late child actress racked up five nominations during the course of her career, which would have been more if not for her death. She was featured on various TV shows, most notably the American sitcom Happy Days, starting with season 10 of the program. She played the role of Heather Pfister.