Marlee Matlin

ACTRESS, PRODUCER, SOUNDTRACK

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Marlee Beth Matlin was born in Morton Grove, Illinois, to Libby (Hammer) and Donald Matlin, an automobile dealer. She has two older brothers. Her family is of Russian Jewish and Polish Jewish descent.Marlee lost much of her hearing at the age of eighteen months. That did not stop her from acting in a children's theater company at age seven; she was Dorothy in "The Wizard of Oz." Her deafness never held her back. As an adult she said it so eloquently: "I have always resisted putting limitations on myself, both professionally and personally." Marlee studied criminal justice at Harper College in Palatine, Illinois, and maintained her passion for acting after graduating. While performing on stage throughout Chicago and the Midwest, Marlee attracted notice for her performance in a production of the Tony Award-winning play "Children of a Lesser God" and was cast in the movie version, Gottes vergessene Kinder (1986). Although this was her film debut, she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. While shooting her next movie, Walker (1987), in Nicaragua, big-hearted Marlee took time to visit both hearing and hearing-impaired children. She continued this tradition of visiting local children throughout her travels to Germany, England, Italy, Australia, Mexico, Canada, etc.Her interest in the criminal justice field played a part in her on screen career; she portrayed an assistant D.A. in the TV series Die Staatsanwältin und der Cop (1991), while off screen she married police officer Kevin Grandalski on August 29, 1993. The couple has four children. Marlee was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1994 for her performance as Laurie Bey in the Picket Fences: Tatort Gartenzaun (1992) episode "Dancing Bandit." Marlee is also a spokeswoman for the National Captioning Institute. In 1995, she testified at a congressional hearing and helped get a law passed that requires all TV sets 13 inches or larger to be manufactured with built-in chips to provide closed captioning on their screens; this was a godsend for deaf viewers.Marlee serves as the national spokeswoman for the largest provider of TV closed captioning, and has spoken on behalf of CC in countries such as Australia, England, France, and Italy. She also serves on the boards of a number of charitable organizations, including Very Special Arts, the Starlight Foundation, and other charities that primarily benefit children. As someone who loves children so much, it is only fitting that she has four of her own. Professionally, Marlee has even tried producing, being the executive producer for Wenn die Wahrheit lügt (1999). - IMDb Mini Biography By: kdhaisch@aol.com

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Streaming Availability

Amazon Video has the most number of Marlee Matlin’s flixes, followed by DIRECTV compared to other streaming platforms. See the full graph below.

Releases by Year

Marlee Matlin on average has worked on 2 movies per year from 1986 to 2021. See the full graphs of the number of Marlee Matlin movies released per year from 1994 till 2021.

Top Genres

Marlee Matlin works mostly in Drama Genre followed by Documentary Genre flixes. 46% of Marlee Matlin movies are Drama Genre movies. See Top Genres that Marlee Matlin worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Marlee Matlin has worked on is 6.2.

6.2 / 10

Marlee Matlin's Movies and Tv Series available to Stream now ..

Comedy,Drama,Music
CODA (2021)

8/10111 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

An investigation into the way media portrayals impact the actual inclusion of people with disabilities in society.

7.5/1097 min

Available in 4 platform(s).

Dealing with work, romance and family drama is never easy. But BFFs Kate and Michael, who are both deaf and live in Los Angeles, are about to face new challenges - including a bad breakup, ...

7.4/1030 min

Available in 2 platform(s).

A new speech teacher at a school for the deaf falls in love with the janitor, a deaf woman speechless by choice.

7.2/10119 min

Available in 11 platform(s).

Family drama about a deaf and hearing couple who struggle to decide whether or not to give their deaf son a cochlear implant.

6.6/10120 min

Available in 11 platform(s).

After being diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, a rebellious young woman is disease-stricken. Upon being admitted to a nursing home, she finds hope in the most unlikely of places...

6.2/10104 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

John and Peg are both deaf and they have a six year old daughter, Lisa. On their way to Peg's parents they have a car accident and John is killed. Peg has a nervous breakdown and Peg's ...

6.2/10100 min

Available in 4 platform(s).

Action,Crime,Drama
Dead Silence (1997)

A veteran FBI agent negotiates the release of a bus-load of hearing-impaired school-children taken hostage by 3 desperate escaped convicts.

6/1099 min

Available in 8 platform(s).