Photo: Marlee Matlin discussing her experiences as a Deaf actress. Source: Olivia Hart
By Olivia Hart
Staff Writer
The Simmons Voice
29 November 2017
Award-winning actress Marlee Matlin gave valuable insight about her experience as a Deaf actress, and her hopes for the future of deaf people working in show business, during the Boston Jewish Film Festival on Nov. 19.
Alongside her three-decade-long acting career, she noticed that deaf actors are sometimes tokenized and pigeonholed in the motion picture industry.
