Marlee Matlin Research Presentation

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  1. My presentation is about Marlee Matlin, a deaf Hollywood actress
  2. from Illinois.
  3. So in her early life, she was born on August
  4. 24th, 1965 and she went deaf due to illness at
  5. 18 months of age.
  6. Her first acting debut was at age seven in The
  7. Wizard of Oz, which was a production that was put
  8. on by the I.
  9. C O.
  10. D. A.
  11. The International Center of Deafness and the Arts Theater, Um,
  12. at the theater.
  13. She also starred in productions of Mary Poppins and Peter
  14. Pan. At Young Ages, she attended John Jersey High School
  15. and Plan to Go Toe, Harper College and City Criminal
  16. Justice. Okay, Um, Important dates and accomplishments.
  17. Her first movie debuted in 1968 and it was called
  18. Children of a Lesser God.
  19. And she won the Academy Award for best actress for
  20. her role as Sarah in this film, which was a
  21. massive accomplishment because it was her first film, Um, and
  22. she moved on to star in Reasonable Doubts, which is
  23. a TV show, and on the set she met her
  24. husband, Um, and she and her husband got married in
  25. 1993 and they now have four Children, and after the
  26. birth of her Children, she ended up writing.
  27. Four books on the first one was written a year
  28. after her last child was born, Um, and of these
  29. four books, three of them were part of a Children's
  30. trilogy. And one was an autobiography, which was just about
  31. most of the details.
  32. And all the struggles that she had gone through in
  33. her life on these books have inspired thousands and thousands
  34. of people in the deaf community today.
  35. Her contributions to death culture, her books have inspired ah,
  36. lot of people who are in the death community.
  37. Um, and she has appeared in many movies and TV
  38. shows as like powerful deaf characters ah, including character and
  39. switched at birth, which is a very popular TV show,
  40. Or it waas.
  41. A few years ago, um, and she created an app
  42. called Marley Signs to teach people, uh, SL or to
  43. teach to people who wanted to learn it.
  44. Um, overall, she has been a big inspiration in the
  45. deaf community, and she will continue to spire inspire people
  46. in the years to come