Marlee Matlin Biography
Marlee Matlin is an actor, author, and activist from the United States. She has won several awards, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and nominations for a BAFTA Award and four Primetime Emmy Awards.
How old is Marlee Matlin? – Age
She is 57 years old as of 24 August 2022. She was born in 1965 in Morton Grove, Illinois, United States. Her real name is Marlee Beth Matlin.
Marlee Matlin Family – Education
Matlin was to Libby and Donald Matlin, both of whom worked as car dealers. She is the only deaf person in her family. Matlin grew up in a Reform Jewish household with her two elder brothers, Eric and Marc. Her ancestors come from Poland and Russia. Matlin attended a Deaf synagogue (Congregation Bene Shalom) and was able to learn her Torah portion for her Bat Mitzvah by learning Hebrew phonetically.
Marlee Matlin Husband
On August 29, 1993, Matlin married Burbank police officer Kevin Grandalski at the house of actor Henry Winkler. The couple initially met outside the studio premises, when she was filming a scene from Reasonable Doubts; the police department had dispatched Grandalski to provide security and traffic control. Sarah, born in 1996, Brandon, born in 2000, Tyler, born in 2002, and Isabelle, born in 2003 are their four children.
Marlee Matlin Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $11 Million.
Marlee Matlin Dancing with the Stars
Matlin was a contestant on the sixth season of ABC’s Dancing with the Stars in 2008. Fabian Sanchez, a novice, was her dance partner. Matlin and Sanchez were the competition’s sixth couple to be eliminated. Matlin has previously appeared on the game shows Dancing with the Stars and The Voice.
Marlee Matlin Switched at Birth
On Switched at Birth, Matlin played Melody Bledsoe, a recurrent character. Switched at Birth is an ABC Family teen and family drama television series that debuted on June 6, 2011. The one-hour scripted drama takes place in the Kansas City metropolitan region and follows two kids who were switched at birth and grew up in drastically different environments: one in an upscale suburb and the other in a working-class neighborhood. According to ABC Family, it is “the first mainstream television series to have multiple deaf and hard-of-hearing series regulars and scenes shot entirely in American Sign Language (ASL)”.
Marlee Matlin Book
Later, she was profiled for the book Mazel Tov: Celebrity Bar and Bat Mitzvah Memories.
Marlee Matlin The Magicians
Matlin began her recurring role as Harriet on the Syfy television series The Magicians in 2017. The Magicians is an American fantasy television series that aired on Syfy and is based on Lev Grossman’s 2009 novel of the same name. Executive producers include Michael London, Janice Williams, John McNamara, and Sera Gamble. In May 2015, a 13-episode order was placed for the first season, and the series premiered as a special preview on December 16, 2015. Syfy revived the series for a fifth and final season in January 2019, which aired from January 15 to April 1, 2020. Students in a covert school of magic discover that the magical world is more deadly than they realized in the show.
Marlee Matlin Movies
♦ 2021 – CODA
♦ 2019 – Multiverse
♦ 2014 – Some Kind of Beautiful
♦ 2013 – 4Closed
♦ 2013 – No Ordinary Hero: The SuperDeafy Movie
♦ 2012 – Excision
♦ 2007 – Baby Einstein: My First Signs
♦ 2006 – Baby Einstein: Baby’s Favorite Places
♦ 2005 – Baby Einstein: Baby Wordsworth
♦ 2004 – What the Bleep Do We Know!?
♦ 2001 – Askari
♦ 1999 – Two Shades of Blue
♦ 1993 – Hear No Evil
Marlee Matlin TV Shows
♦ 2023 – Hell’s Kitchen
♦ 2022 – Blue’s Clues & You!
♦ 2022 – New Amsterdam
♦ 2019 – Limetown
♦ 2018 – Quantico
♦ 2018 – Gone
♦ 2017–19 – The Magicians
♦ 2017 – Battle of the Network Stars
♦ 2017 – Hollywood Medium with Tyler Henry
♦ 2016 – Code Black
♦ 2014 – Glee
♦ 2014 – Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey
♦ 2013 – Celebrity Ghost Stories
♦ 2012–21 – Family Guy
♦ 2011–17 – Switched at Birth
♦ 2011–12 – The Celebrity Apprentice
♦ 2011 – Comedy Central Roast of Donald Trump
♦ 2011 – CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
