Hemmens practices martial arts and enjoys painting in her spare time. She currently resides in Los Angeles.
She and her three older siblings grew up in rural Waldo, Maine.
Coming from a small town, Hemmens started her career on the stage which then carried her on to a full scholarship at a prestigious arts high school. Upon graduating, she went straight to Los Angeles to pursue her career and dreams.
In her late high school years, she trained at Boston's Walnut Hill School for the Arts.
Between 2006 and 2014, she appeared in episodes of CSI: Miami, The Vampire Diaries, Grey's Anatomy, and several other popular television series.
If Loving You Is Wrong, the soap opera for which Hemmens is known, was written and directed by Tyler Perry .
Heather has a black belt in Kuk Sool Won, a form of Taekwondo. Her oldest brother is a 4-time Grand Champion, and had a second- degree black belt by the time Heather joined.