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Claremore, Oklahoma

The movie Where the Heart Is starring Natalie Portman and Ashley Judd fictionally portrays Rogers County and the area surrounding Claremore.

Dennis Letts

His acting credits also included his debut in Blood Suckers from Outer Space a sci fi comedy written and directed by Glen Coburn, Where the Heart Is, a film based on a novel written by his wife, Billie Letts.

Diana Van der Vlis

Diana Van der Vlis (June 9, 1935 - October 22, 2001) was a Canadian stage, screen and television actress best known for her characters ‘Dr. Nell Beaulac’ on the ABC soap opera Ryan's Hope and 'Kate Hathaway Prescott’ on the CBS soap opera Where the Heart Is.

Gerrit Folsom

In 2000 Gerrit Folsom joined a team of producers to create Where the Heart Is starring Natalie Portman, Ashley Judd, and Stockard Channing.

Hazel Douglas

Her television and film credits include The IT Crowd, Gavin and Stacey, Run Fatboy Run, Casualty, The Royal, Asylum, The Bill, Where the Heart Is, Gimme Gimme Gimme, The Hunger Games, At Home with the Braithwaites and The Liver Birds.

Ian Kelsey

In 2006 Kelsey had acting roles in the BBC1 late-night drama Hotel Babylon and could be seen in the ITV1 Sunday evening drama Where the Heart Is, playing Jack Clayton opposite actress Shobna Gulati).

Inside Soap Awards

Now defunct soaps that were formerly nominated for awards are Bad Girls, Brookside, Crossroads, Family Affairs, Night and Day and Where the Heart Is.

Jan Sargent

She has also directed episodes of Where the Heart Is, Backup, Dangerfield, The Bill, Ruth Rendell Mysteries, Soldier Soldier, Casualty, Big Deal, Truckers, Black Silk, Desmonds, Births Marriages & Deaths and Small Change.

Matilda Ziegler

Other television credits include Harbour Lights (1999), acting alongside Nick Berry, who also played her love interest, Simon Wicks, in EastEnders; Where the Heart Is (2000); Holby City (2003); Casualty; An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1998) and the ITV police drama, The Bill (2003), among others.

Midnight, Mississippi

In the 2000 film, Where the Heart Is, starring Natalie Portman, an older couple came from Midnight, Mississippi to reprimand Novalee for having her baby out of wedlock.

Moira Armstrong

Her credits include episodes of Armchair Thriller (based on the novel Quiet as a Nun), Lark Rise to Candleford, Where the Heart Is, The Bill, Midsomer Murders, Something in Disguise, The Wednesday Play, and Adam Adamant Lives!, Freud (1984) as well as the television film The Countess Alice (1992).

Robert Shaw Cameron

He is also an actor, his first television role was in the EastEnders spin off Ricky & Bianca in 2002, before going on to appear in The Bill, The Wild Life, Where The Heart Is, The Basil Brush Show, Shane by Frank Skinner, Holby City, Heartbeat, Keen Eddie and was the voice of the Quizmaster for ITV's 24 Hour Quiz.


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Café Racers

The song "I'll Be Here Where the Heart Is" was included on the chart-topping, six times Platinum Flashdance soundtrack which received a Grammy Award for Best Album Of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture at 26th Annual Grammy Awards.

Grammy Award for Best Polka Album

Lenny Gomulka and the Chicago Push – Home Is Where the Heart Is

Paddy McAloon

Songs written by McAloon have also been recorded by Kylie Minogue ("If You Don't Love Me"), Cher ("The Gunman"), Wendy Matthews ("God Watch Over You" and "Ride"), Sondre Lerche ("Nightingales" - the song appeared in "From Langley Park to Memphis" and Lerche sang it with the Faces Down Quartet as a tribute to Prefab Sprout), Danny Seward ("Home (Where The Heart Is)"), Momus ("Green Isaac Pt. 2") and various songs for Jimmy Nail.

Sally Fingerett

Soon after, Christine Lavin passed a recording of Fingerett's song Home Is Where The Heart Is (about accepting people regardless of sexual orientation) to Peter, Paul and Mary, who covered the song on their album Lifelines.