Marlee Matlin

Marlee Matlin received the Academy Award for Best Actress for her film debut in "Children of a Lesser God." At 21, she became the youngest recipient of the Best Actress Oscar. In addition, Marlee also received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Drama. Since then, Marlee has starred in "Waker," "The Player," "Hear No Evil," "It's My Party, " and most recently in “What the Bleep Do We Know.”

On TV, Marlee starred in CBS’ "Bridge to Silence," a film that marked her first speaking role. Marlee also starred in the NBC series "Reasonable Doubts" opposite Mark Harmon and has been nominated for four Emmy awards for "Seinfeld," "Picket Fences," "The Practice" and "Law and Order:SVU." Since then, Marlee appeared on NBC’s “The West Wing,” “Desperate Housewives,” “CSI: NY” “My Name is Earl” and "Nip/Tuck." She hosted ABC’s “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” and Executive Produced "Eddie's Million Dollar Cook Off" for the Disney Channel. She recently wrapped her third and last season on Showtime's “The L Word” and starred on the sixth season cast of ABC's “Dancing With the Stars" where she asked America to "read my hips!" In April, 2008, Marlee starred opposite Jeff Daniels in the Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation, “Sweet Nothing In My Ear” on CBS. And in April 2009, her autobiography entitled "I'll Scream Later" will be published by Simon and Schuster.

Marlee was instrumental in getting legislation passed in Congress in support of Closed Captioning and serves on the boards of a number of charities including The American Red Cross, The Children Affected by AIDS Foundation and Easter Seals.