"Academy Awards: 59th Annual," Marlee Matlin. 1987.
 
				
				
						 Caption: "Academy Awards: 59th Annual," Marlee Matlin. 1987.
																																				
						Actress, Producer, Soundtrack
						Born: August 24, 1965
						Star sign: Virgo
						Height: 5' 4" (1.63 m)
						Known for: Children of a Lesser God (1986), What the #$*! Do We (K)now!? (2004), Reasonable Doubts (1991), The One I Love (2014)
						Source: IMDB
						Marlee Beth Matlin was 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 ...