Heather Kafka
Acting
Born July 7, 1972, Austin, Texas, USA
Heather Kafka (born 7 July 1972, Austin, Texas) is an American film, television, and voice actress who has been acting since age 6. She lives and works in Austin, Texas. She is best known as Chloe in MTV's first-ever scripted series Austin Stories (1997–98), Lacy in the independent drama Joe (2013, dir. David Gordon Green), and Henrietta Hewitt in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003). Other notable film roles include Where the Heart Is (2000), Idiocracy (2006), Lovers of Hate (2010, Independent Spirit Award-nominated), Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013), and Song to Song (2017, dir. Terrence Malick). On television she has had recurring roles on Queen Sugar (2018–2022, as Deborah, 9 episodes), Lawmen: Bass Reeves (2023), Friday Night Lights (2006), and guest appearances on House, The Leftovers, Longmire, and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. As a voice actress for ADV Films, she voiced Hinagiku Tamano/Angel Daisy in the anime Wedding Peach and Jun Hunoo in Mazinkaiser. She is a member of SAG-AFTRA.
Filmography
- 2025All That We Love — Podcast Host
- 2025Leads — Mags Malloy, Producer, Story
- 2024Blood Waters
- 2024The Long Game — Alice Glenn
- Lawmen: Bass Reeves — Florence Hammersly
- 2023Wüm — Madge
- 2021No Future — Linda
- 2019Lola: Girl Got a Gun — Mom
- 2019There You Are
- 2018Foxy Trot — Carol
- 2018Maude
- 2017Don't Ever Change — Amy
- 2017Song to Song — Suzie (uncredited)
- 2017Whiskey Fist — Karen
- 2016Bug — Deborah
- 2016Daylight's End — Earnesta
- 2015Some Beasts
- 2015The Samaritans — Lou-Anne
- 2014Joe — Lacy
- 2014Skunk — Leila's Mom
- The Leftovers — Susan
- 2013Ain't Them Bodies Saints — Midwife #1
- 2013Angels Sing — David's Doctor
- 2013Black Metal — Rose
- 2013Loves Her Gun — Debbie (Neighbor)
- 2013Pit Stop — Linda
- 2012Kid-Thing — Mom
- Longmire — Holly Whitish
- 2012Saturday Morning Massacre — Mona
- 2011The Man Who Never Cried — Mary Winston
- 2011Wind Session Tiger Woman — Mrs. Blake
- 2010Lovers of Hate — Diana
- 2006Idiocracy — Woman at Carl's Jr.
- Night Stalker — Katrina Ortega
- 2005The Wendell Baker Story — Marianne
- CSI: NY
- House — Sarah Kelvey
- 2003The Texas Chainsaw Massacre — Henrietta
- CSI: Crime Scene Investigation — Mindy DuPont
- Strong Medicine — Callan Howe
- 2000Where the Heart Is — Delphia
- 1999The Monster Hunter — Cassandra
- 1996The Secret She Carried — Cheryl
- ER — Rhonda