There are certain films in which a casting decision can create a character so vivid that the characterization becomes forever burned into the memory, becoming an archetypal embodiment. Heather Matarazzo's infallible portrayal of the graceless and prickly Dawn Weiner in Todd Solondz's Welcome to the Dollhouse (which garnered the young actress an Independent Spirit Award for Best Debut) ...more
- 1996
- Independent Spirit Awards
- Best Debut Performance
- Welcome to the Dollhouse
- win
- 2007
- Hostel Part II
- Lorna
- 2005
- Freshman Orientation
- Jessica
- 2004
- The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
- Lilly Moscovitz
- 2003
- Saved!
- Tia
- 2002
- Sorority Boys
- Katie















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