Marlee Matlin Net Worth

Marlee Matlin's Quotes

• The Earth does not belong to us: we belong to the Earth.
• Silence is the last thing the world will ever hear from me.
• The handicap of deafness is not in the ear; it is in the mind.
• In response to a new 2006 PBS censorship policy requiring additional visual pixelization for the deaf of recognizable lip movements of sworn words: All I can say is I've been reading the lips of bleeped-out words, angry baseball players, and stoned-out rock stars on awards shows for years and it's been hilarious. Everyone is always asking me what the bleeped-out parts are saying. Just say no to pixelization! Hehe.
• I have a lot of great memories of high school and some horrible ones. I got in trouble for smoking pot, and I got in trouble for ditching class for smoking pot and smoking more pot. I had a good time in high school, and it's all great memories... All great memories, just all a long time ago... By the way I want to make it clear I have been sober for 28 years. Just had to put that out there. (in a Playbill interview with the cast of the 2015 production of the teen-centered musical "Spring Awakening"; all of their cast members were asked for their memories of high school.)

Interesting Facts about Marlee Matlin

1. Used to live with William Hurt.
2. Initially, she believed that she was rendered deaf in infancy by a bout of roseola infantum but later found out that roseola doesn't cause deafness. In the 1990s, a doctor told her mother that he believed that Matlin had a genetically malformed cochlea, which meant that she could likely hear when she was born but that her hearing receded over the first couple of years of her life.
3. Her husband, Kevin Grandalski, is a police officer.
4. Was married in Henry Winkler's (the Fonz's) backyard.
5. Listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1986" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 38.
6. Attended and graduated from John Hersey High School in Arlington Heights, Illinois.
7. She presented the Vardon family with $50,000 from a charity for the Vardons' son to go to the college of his choice. This was on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (2003). The Vardon family is made up of two deaf parents, a hearing older son (Stefan) and a younger son who is both blind and autistic.
8. One of a chosen few to win a Best Acting Oscar for a debut performance.
9. Youngest person to win the Oscar in the Best Actress Category at the age of 21 and 218 days old. She is also the only deaf actor to win an Academy Award.
10. Her daughter Sarah was born on the same day an episode of Picket Fences (1992) aired, in which her character, Laurie Bey, also gave birth.
11. As a child, she attended a synagogue for the deaf.
12. She is profoundly deaf. Her right ear has complete loss, while her left ear has around 80% loss. She is the only member of her family who is deaf.
13. Lives in Los Angeles, California with her husband, Kevin, and their four children [2009].
14. Close friends with Jennifer Beals.
15. Named godmother of Holland-America Line cruise ship the MS Noordam.
16. Credits ex-boyfriend William Hurt with helping her seek help for her drug abuse.
17. Found out about her Oscar nomination for Children of a Lesser God (1986) from her interpreter Jack Jason when she was in rehab in the Betty Ford Clinic for 26 days, seeking help because of her drug problems. She didn't want to field questions from the press about her nomination, since she didn't want them to know that she was in recovery, so she responded to Jack, "I'll scream later." That phrase became the title of her 2009 memoir.
18. Revealed in her biography "I'll Scream Later" that her relationship with William Hurt was physically abusive on both sides and that their fights were alcohol and drug-fueled.
19. Deaf actress Marlee Matlin has been handed a special award from the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) for performers with disabilities.
20. Marlee started out as a stage actress.