Marlee Matlin

In 2004, she starred in the film What the #$*! Do We know!? as Amanda. McDormand's credits include:. She was nominated for a 2004 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for a performance on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Frances McDormand is an associate member of the experimental theater company The Wooster Group. In 2002, she published her first novel, Deaf Child Crossing, which is loosely based on her own childhood. She played Connie Chapman on Hill Street Blues. They have a daughter (Sarah Rose, born 1996) and two sons (Brandon, born 2000; Tyler, born 2002). For Wonder Boys in 2001 she won Best Supporting Actress from the Broadcast Film Critics Association, the Florida Film Critics Circle, and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.

Matlin married Kevin Grandalski on August 29, 1993 (in Henry Winkler's back yard). Also for Almost Famous she won the Best Supporting Actress nod from the Broadcast Film Critics Association, the Chicago Film Critics Association, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, San Diego Film Critics Society, Southeastern Film Critics Association, and the Florida Film Critics Circle. She is actively involved with a number of charitable organisations, including the Children Affected by AIDS Foundation, the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, the Starlight Foundation, and the Red Cross Celebrity Cabinet. In 1988 she was nominated for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Mississippi Burning; In 1996 she won the award for Best Actress for her police chief performance in Fargo; and in 2000 she was nominated again for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her portrayal of a concerned mother in Almost Famous. She had recurring roles in The West Wing and Blue's Clues. McDormand has been nominated for Academy Awards three times. She played the lead female role in the television series Reasonable Doubts (1991–1993), and won an Emmy Award for an appearance in Picket Fences. In 1992, McDormand played Stella Kowalski in a stage production of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, for which she was nominated for a Tony Award.

Other films followed, as well as television work. In 1984 she married director Joel Coen after performing in the Coen Brother movie, Blood Simple, and in 1998 the couple adopted a son from Paraguay, Pedro McDormand Coen. It was this role for which she got her Golden Globe and Academy Awards. While attending Yale, McDormand roomed with fellow actress and student Holly Hunter. As an adult, she appeared in a supporting role in the play Children of a Lesser God, which led to her being cast in the lead for the film version of the play in 1986. from the Yale University School of Drama. She made her stage debut at the age of seven, as Dorothy in a children's theatre version of The Wizard of Oz, and continued to appear with the same children's theatre group throughout her childhood. In 1982 she earned an M.F.A.

(She lost all hearing in her right ear, and 80% of hearing in her left ear.). in Theater in 1979. Born in Morton Grove, Illinois, Matlin lost most of her hearing at the age of 18 months, following a bout of measles. She attended Bethany College, Bethany, West Virginia, where she earned her B.A. She began acting on stage at the age of seven, and her film début brought her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Drama and an Academy Award for Best Actress (at 21, the youngest person ever to receive the award) — an achievement even more remarkable because she is almost completely deaf. She spent much of her youth in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania suburb of Monessen, where she graduated from high school. Marlee Beth Matlin (born August 24, 1965) is an American actress. She was born in Chicago, Illinois and was the youngest of three children adopted by Canadian parents Vernon (a Disciple of Christ minister) and Noreen McDormand.

Frances McDormand (born June 23, 1957) is a character actress with TV, stage, and screen credits. City by the Sea (2002). Laurel Canyon (2002). The Man Who Wasn't There (2001).

Wonder Boys (2000). Almost Famous (2000). Primal Fear (1997). Lone Star (1996).

Fargo (1996). Miller's Crossing (1990). Mississippi Burning (1988). Raising Arizona (1987).

Blood Simple (1984).