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Marlee Matlin Wins Best Actress | 59th Oscars (1987)

William Hurt presenting Marlee Matlin with the Best Actress Oscar® for her performance in Children of a Lesser God - the 59th...

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IMDB. Marlee Matlin is an Academy Award winning and Emmy nominated actress who played Joey Lucas on all seven seasons of The West Wing. The deaf actress is best known for her Oscar winning role in Children of a Lesser God, which was her first film role.
Marlee Matlin is turning back time at the 2024 Oscars! On Sunday night, the actress, 58, not only dazzled at the 96th annual Academy Awards but also called back to her historic Oscars appearance in 1987, when she became the first deaf person to win an Oscar and the youngest best actress recipient.
Marlee Matlin. Marlee Matlin accepts the Best Actress Oscar for 'Children of a Lesser God' becoming the first deaf actress to win an Academy Award.);})();(function(){window.jsl.dh(XL_FZrrqHte8xc8PtrWpGA__73,
Matlin lost all hearing in her right ear and 80% of the hearing in her left ear at the age of 18 months due to illness and fevers. In her autobiography I'll Scream Later, she suggests that her hearing loss may have been due to a genetically malformed cochlea. She is the only member of her family who is deaf.
Marlee Matlin. Marlee Matlin. Diagnosed with profound hearing loss at just 18 months old, Matlin has only 20 per cent hearing in one ear, and is completely deaf in the another. As a child, Matlin attended a synagogue for the Deaf. She studied Hebrew phonetically, and learned her part of the Torah for her Bat Mitzvah.