Heather Matarazzo Biography
Heather Matarazzo is an American actress who rose to prominence as a preteen when she played the painfully awkward Dawn Wiener in the 1995 film ‘Welcome to the Dollhouse’.
Heather Matarazzo Age
She was born Heather Christina Marie Matarazzo on 10 November 1982, in Oyster Bay, New York, United States of America. Marie is 41 years old as of November 2023.
Heather Matarazzo Height
Marie stands at a height of 5’4″ (163 cm).
Heather Matarazzo Family- Parents
Matarazzo was born and raised, in Oyster Bay, New York, USA. She is of Irish origin, and her biological father is Pat Corley of Knock, Ireland. Camille and Ray Matarazzo adopted and nurtured her as part of their Catholic Italian American family. Her father worked as a data processing manager for a bakery chain, and her mother was a homemaker.
Heather Matarazzo Partner- Husband
In 2004, at the age of 21, Matarazzo came out as a lesbian.NHer first affair occurred when she was between the ages of 15 and 16. Her publicist revealed on July 31, 2008, that she was engaged to musician Caroline Murphy. Later in 2012, the media reported that the couple had split amicably. On January 11, 2018, she proposed to her partner Heather Turman, a comedian and writer. The couple married months later, on November 11, 2018. Matarazzo, who was raised in a strict Roman Catholic home, initially rejected religion when she came to terms with her sexuality, but eventually found consolation in born-again Christianity.
Heather Matarazzo Career
Matarazzo started acting at the age of six; after taking over the microphone at an AIDS benefit for children, she was given the card of a talent management, with whom she worked for ten years. In 1997, she received an Independent Spirit Award for her role as adolescent social outcast Dawn Wiener in Welcome to the Dollhouse. Matarazzo has expressed appreciation for the opportunity to play interesting characters, some of whom “are ostracized for various reasons.” She has stated that her most proud performance was in 1999’s Our Guys: Outrage in Glen Ridge, which was based on a true tale and starred her as a mentally challenged girl who is raped by footballers.
She played Heather Wiseman in the short-lived television series Now and Again. She played Lilly Moscovitz in the teen romance comedy film The Princess Diaries in 2000, and she returned to the role in the 2004 sequel The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement. Matarazzo has been on several popular television shows, including Roseanne, Law & Order, The L Word, Grey’s Anatomy, and Strangers With Candy. Matarazzo appeared opposite Thaao Penghlis in the world premiere of Charles Evered’s play Class at Cape May Stage in Cape May, New Jersey, in May and June 2010. Matarazzo revealed in 2011 that she would begin production on her directorial debut, a television series based on Diane Hanks’ memoir, Summer Camp: A Memoir.
Heather Matarazzo Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of 450 thousand dollars.
Heather Matarazzo Movies
2023 You’re Not Supposed to Be Here
2022 Queer for Fear: The History of Queer Horror
2020 Equal Phyllis Lyon
2015 Grey’s Anatomy
2015 Raymond & Lane
2014 Stalker
2008 Law & Order
2008 Life on Mars
2007 The L Word
2006–2009 Exes and Ohs
2002 St. Sass
2000 Strangers with Candy