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Birthday: August 24, 1965
A bout of roseola infantum rendered actress Marlee Matlin almost completely deaf at the age of 18 months. Never permitting her affliction to impede her ambitions, Matlin launched her stage career at age 8, playing Dorothy in the Des Plaines Childrens Theatre of the Deaf production of The Wizard Oz. She put her theatrical aspirations on the back burner while studying criminal justice at ...more
- 1986
- Hollywood Foreign Press Association
- Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
- Children of a Lesser God
- win
- 1986
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie
- Best Actress
- Children of a Lesser God
- win
- 2008
- Sweet Nothing in My Ear
- Laura Miller
- 2008
- The L Word: Season 05
- Jodi
- 2007
- The L Word: Season 04
- Jodi Lerner
- 2006
- What the Bleep!? Down the Rabbit Hole
- Amanda
- 2005
- Desperate Housewives: There Won't Be Trumpets
- Alisa Stevens
- 2003
- Eddie's Million-Dollar Cookoff
- Executive Producer
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