Despite progress in diversity, the Deaf community remains overlooked in Hollywood. Michelle Mary Schaefer is fighting for ...

PARK CITY, Utah — The moment Marlee Matlin stepped onstage at the 1987 Academy Awards as the first deaf actor to win an Oscar for “Children of a Lesser God” appeared to be a joyous triumph.

The disabled community in Hollywood reminds their able-bodied colleagues to help join in the fight for equality and inclusion ...

Through Children of a Lesser God, the San Jac’s Central Theatre Department hopes to inspire empathy and understanding while ...

Marlee Matlin received the Best Actress Oscar in 1987 for her role as Sarah Norman in the romantic drama, "Children of a ...

When Marlee Matlin became the first Deaf actor to win an Oscar for “Children of a Lesser God,” back in 1986, she didn’t want to be the last. However, it took 35 years for another Deaf actor ...

“Children of a Lesser God” director, Randa Haines ... paid for her own interpreter at the clinic as the rehab’s first deaf patient. Matlin went on to meet her now-husband Kevin Grandalski ...

The actors' 'Children of a Lesser God' director recalls seeing bruises ... a screen adaptation of the hit Mark Medoff play about a deaf woman's romantic relationship with a hearing speech teacher.

At 19, Matlin was cast opposite William Hurt in the adaptation of the play “Children of a Lesser God.” She portrayed Sarah Norman, a janitor in a school for the deaf. Hurt’s character is a ...

Paramount/courtesy Everett Collection Marlee Matlin and William Hurt in 'Children of a Lesser God' Related: Marlee Matlin Explains Why She Will Always Advocate for the Deaf Community: ‘I Love to Bitch ...