Marlee MatlinFilmography

Dancing With the Stars: Season 06

Actors: Tom Bergeron, Len Goodman, Bruno Tonioli, Carrie Ann Inaba

Sweet Nothing in My Ear

Actors: Jeff Daniels, Marlee Matlin, Sonya Walger, Ed Waterstreet, Phyllis Frelich

Synopsis: A married couple locked in separate realities is faced with the most difficult decision of their lives after learning that their son, who loses his ability to hear at age four, could potentially regain his hearing with the help of cochlear implants. Dan Miller (Jeff Daniels) and his wife Laura Read More

The L Word: Season 04

Actors: Jennifer Beals, Laurel Holloman, Mia Kirshner, Katherine Moennig, Leisha Hailey, Cybill Shepherd, Marlee Matlin, Pam Grier, Rachel Shelley, Janina Gavankar, Daniela Sea, Rose Rollins

Baby Einstein: My First Signs

Synopsis: Every parent longs to know what messages their infant child's cries are truly attempting to convey, and in this release host Marlee Matlin shows how even children as young as three months can learn to express themselves through the use of sign language. Not only can sign language help parents to Read More

What the Bleep!? Down the Rabbit Hole

Synopsis: The concepts of quantum theory and spiritual well-being originally put forth in the 2004 feature What the #$*! Do We Know?! are expanded upon in this extended version of the same film featuring a new opening, a variety of new interviews, and three new computer-animation segments. If audiences Read More

Baby Wordsworth: First Words - Around the House

Synopsis: Every parent knows that a child's first words create the foundation of his or her entire vocabulary, and now children can learn to effectively communicate in familiar surroundings in this instructional language video hosted by Marlee Matlin. In addition to introducing children to 30 words from Read More

Desperate Housewives: There Won't Be Trumpets

Synopsis: When Mama Solis succumbs to her injuries, everyone from Wisteria Lane attends the funeral. Andrew Van De Kamp (Shawn Pyfrom) continues to act up, and his parents consider sending him to a juvenile disciplinary camp. Lynette (Felicity Huffman) makes friends with Alisa Stevens (Marlee Martin), whose Read More

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Parts

Synopsis: When the disemembered head and arm of a female murder victim is found in a junkyard, the SVU team launches an extensive search for the killer. Several false leads later, a man comes forth with a confession--but this is not the end of the story, which involves a black-market ring specializing in Read More

What the #$*! Do We Know?!

Actors: Marlee Matlin, Elaine Hendrix, John Ross Bowie, Armin Shimerman, Robert Bailey Jr., Barry Newman

Synopsis: Part narrative, part documentary, and part animation, What the #$*! Do We Know?! was filmed with the intent of expressing the neurological processes and so called "quantum uncertainty" of life. With the help of a directorial triumvirate consisting of Betsy Chasse, William Arntz, and Mark Vicente, Marlee Matlin Read More

Eddie's Million-Dollar Cookoff

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Taylor Ball, Mark L. Taylor

Synopsis: Fourteen-year-old Eddie Ogden (Taylor Ball) is the best player on his baseball team. He also happens to be a natural-born chef, and it is this peculiar talent that opens him up for ridicule, not only from his fellow players, but also from the team's coach, who happens to be Eddie's father (Mark L. Taylor Read More

Blue's Clues: All Kinds of Signs

Synopsis: Marlee Matlin guest stars in these two classic Blue's Clues adventures. In the first story, Matlin teaches Steve a bit of American Sign Language, which he uses as he and some friends try to find out where Blue would like to eat her snack. Steve teaches the others some of the signs he learned while Read More

Kiss My Act

Actors: Camryn Manheim, Scott Cohen, Dabney Coleman, Marlee Matlin

Synopsis: An aspiring comic who has to hide behind others to get her humor in front of an audience finds you can't do the same thing when it comes to romance. Samantha Berger (Camryn Manheim) works as a bartender at a New York comedy club; possessing a sharp imagination and a quick wit , Samantha writes Read More

The West Wing: 20 Hours in L.A.

Actors: Dulé Hill, Kathryn Joosten, Tim Matheson, Elisabeth Moss, Jorja Fox, Marlee Matlin

Synopsis: While President Bartlet (Martin Sheen) is in Hollywood for a fundraiser hosted by politically active homosexual movie mogul Ted Marcus (Bob Balaban), Leo (John Spencer) is back in Washington politicking Vice President Hoynes (Tim Matheson) to vote the White House's position on an important tax Read More

The West Wing: Take This Sabbath Day

Actors: Dulé Hill, Kathryn Joosten, Marlee Matlin

Synopsis: President Bartlet (Martin Sheen) has 48 hours to commute the death sentence of a man convicted of a controversial murder after the Supreme Court refuses to stop the execution. While struggling with the moral, ethical, legal, and religious issues of his decision, he calls on his former priest Read More

Freak City

Actors: Samantha Mathis, Jonathan Silverman, Marlee Matlin, Natalie Cole

Synopsis: A young woman with multiple sclerosis (Samantha Mathis) is placed in an assisted care facility by her family. While at first she feels abandoned and hopeless, she learns to develop a new confidence, self-respect and independence by bonding with her fellow patients, who learn important lessons from Read More

ER: The Storm, Part 1

Synopsis: In this first episode of a two-part story, Ross' (George Clooney) maverick behavior catches up with him when his unauthorized treatment of ALD patient Ricky Abbott (Kyle Chambers) has fatal consequences. This tragedy has long-reaching consequences for others in the ER, beginning with the closing Read More

Snitch

Actors: William Forsythe, Marlee Matlin, William McNamara

Synopsis: A criminal burns his bridges with his fellow outlaws and lives to regret it in this drama. John Shakley (William McNamara) is a small-time crook who has decided it's time to put his life back on the straight and narrow. However, his efforts to stay on the right side of the law are foiled by two Read More

Where the Truth Lies

Actors: Marlee Matlin, Regina King

Synopsis: A controversial Memphis senatorial candidate is murdered, and the prime suspect is the victim's deaf campaign manager, Dana Sue Lacey (Marlee Martin). Despite Dana Sue's popularity with the decedent's constituents, the D.A. insists upon pressing for a Murder One conviction -- and as quickly as Read More

In Her Defense

Actors: Michael Dudikoff, Sophie Lorain, Marlee Matlin

Synopsis: In this suspense drama, Michael Dudikoff plays a lawyer who becomes romantically involved with a married woman (Marlee Matlin). When a confrontation turns violent, the lawyer accidentally kills the cuckolded husband in self-defense; the late husband was a millionaire, and now his wife has now Read More

Two Shades of Blue

Actors: Gary Busey, Marlee Matlin, Eric Roberts

Synopsis: Supermodel Rachel Hunter stars in this suspense story as Susan Price, a successful author whose latest novel has just hit #1 on the best-seller list. But Susan's celebration is short lived when her fiancée, publishing mogul Jack Reynolds (Gary Busey), is murdered, and it quickly becomes obvious Read More

When Justice Fails

Actors: Jeff Fahey, Marlee Matlin, Monique Mercure

Synopsis: In this suspenseful drama, a police detective investigating the murders of two sex offenders becomes romantically-involved with the deaf lawyer who unsuccessfully defended them in court. When the attorney herself becomes the prime suspect, her relationship with the cop is jeopardized. ~ Sandra Read More

The Larry Sanders Show: The Book

Synopsis: When Larry (Garry Shandling) gets the first draft of his memoir back from the publisher, it soon begins to dawn on the host what a bitter and cynical man he has become. When Hank (Jeffrey Tambor) catches wind of Larry's book, the paranoid sidekick soon begins to fret that the dreaded "incident" Read More

Dead Silence

Actors: James Garner, Marlee Matlin, Charles Martin Smith

Synopsis: A tense hostage situation erupts when three escaped convicts commandeer a school bus full of deaf children and take them and their courageous teacher (Marlee Matlin) to an abandoned slaughterhouse to negotiate with the cops. No sooner are the crooks and their captives inside the plant than it is Read More

It's My Party

Actors: Eric Roberts, Gregory Harrison, Lee Grant, Marlee Matlin, Paul Regina

Synopsis: In this bittersweet comedy drama, a man nearing the end of his life seeks closure with his family and friends, and he confronts the issues of the right to die. Nick Stark (Eric Roberts) is a successful architect who is openly gay. He was involved in a committed relationship with Brandon Theis (Gregory Harrison Read More

People in Motion 2: Without Barriers or Borders

People in Motion 2: Breaking the Silence Barrier - Inside the World of Cognitive Disabilites

People in Motion 2: A New Sense of Place

Against Her Will: The Carrie Buck Story

Actors: Marlee Matlin

Synopsis: This made-for-television movie is based on the true story of a landmark Supreme Court decision. Oscar-winner Marlee Matlin (Children of a Lesser God) stars as Carrie Buck, a woman who was used as the test subject in a 1927 experiment to sterilize mentally-challenged women. The test was allowed Read More

Hear No Evil

Actors: Marlee Matlin, D.B. Sweeney, Martin Sheen, John C. McGinley, Christina Carlisi

Synopsis: Hear No Evil, while based on the interesting premise of a deaf woman stalked by a relentless killer, is a well-crafted but predictable mystery thriller. Jillian (Marlee Matlin), a physical trainer is unknowingly given a valuable stolen coin. The theft of the coin was planned by a corrupt and Read More

The Player

Actors: Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward, Whoopi Goldberg, Peter Gallagher

Synopsis: Robert Altman takes a scalpel to Hollywood ethics in the 1990s (or the lack thereof) in his acidic satire The Player, adapted from Michael Tolkin's novel. (Tolkin also wrote the screenplay.) The film concerns a sleek and smooth Hollywood studio executive who starts receiving death threats from a Read More

The Linguini Incident

Actors: Rosanna Arquette, David Bowie, Marlee Matlin, Eszter Balint, Buck Henry, Andre Gregory

Synopsis: A magic-obsessed New York waitress (Rosanna Arquette) is persuaded by a colorful group of characters to help her rob the restaurant where she works. Along the way, she falls in love with the eatery's bartender (David Bowie), who just so happens to be looking for someone who will make him a Read More

L'Homme Au Masque d'or

Actors: Jean Reno, Marlee Matlin, Marc Duret, Patrick Fontana

Bridge to Silence

Actors: Marlee Matlin, Lee Remick

Synopsis: This made-for-TV film represented the first speaking role for hearing-impaired actress Marlee Matlin. A happy wife and mother, Matlin is grief-stricken when her husband is killed in a car accident. Still not fully recovered after several weeks, Matlin must rely on her mother Lee Remick to care for Read More

Walker

Actors: Ed Harris, Marlee Matlin, Peter Boyle, Keith Szarabajka, Blanca Guerra, Richard Masur, Sy Richardson

Synopsis: Alex Cox directed this hallucinatory bio-pic starring Ed Harris as 19th-century American adventurer William Walker, who abandoned a series of careers in law, politics, journalism, and medicine to become a soldier of fortune and eventually a Nicaraguan dictator. When his deaf wife (Marlee Matlin) Read More

Children of a Lesser God

Actors: William Hurt, Marlee Matlin, Piper Laurie, Philip Bosco, Allison Gompf

Synopsis: Children of a Lesser God is a love story about a speech teacher who falls for a beautiful yet distant deaf girl in a small New England school for the deaf, and the obstacles that they face due to their differences. William Hurt plays James Leeds, a renegade teacher with an unconventional approach Read More