An FBI Man Kept His Eye on Her

When Heather Graham, who currently is starring in Universal’s “Shout,” was young, R-rated movies were taboo.

“Isn’t it awful?,” she laments. “Doesn’t it make you want to see them?”

Her father, a FBI agent, even closely monitored what the family watched on TV.

“I come from a strict Catholic family,” Graham says. “When the ‘Love Boat’ would come on he would change the channel as soon as someone would go into another person’s room. He thought it would teach us loose morals. I would sneak and try to see other movies when they were gone and stuff, but it was pretty much ‘The Wizard of Oz’ and ‘The Sound of Music.’ ”

Despite the fact Graham starred in the critically acclaimed R-rated 1989 film “Drugstore Cowboy” as a young junkie, she says her parents are very supportive of her career.

“They did want me to go to college because they were afraid I wouldn’t be able to support myself,” Graham says. “And when I started to support myself, they became very gung ho and keep up with everything.”

Graham, who also played Agent Cooper’s girlfriend, the ex-nun Annie, on “Twin Peaks,” took their advice and attended UCLA for two years. “I would like to go back,” she says. “I still feel there are a lot more things to learn. Sometimes I feel like I should be in college because I really admire people like Jodie Foster who went to school. I think it really shows in what she has done with her life.”