00:00Trailblazing Oscar winner, 59, turns heads on Tribeca Film Festival red carpet.
00:07An Oscar and Golden Globe winning star was turning heads on the Tribeca Film Festival red carpet.
00:14An Oscar and Golden Globe winning star was turning heads on the Tribeca Film Festival red carpet.
00:20Marlee Matlin, 59, walked the red carpet at Tribeca for the premiere of her film, Marlee Matlin, Not Alone.
00:28Anymore on Monday, June 9th in New York City.
00:33The film is a documentary about Matlin being thrust into the spotlight when she became the first deaf actor to win an Academy Award when she was just 21 years old.
00:43Reflecting on her life in her primary language of American Sign Language, Marlee explores the complexities of what it means to be a trailblazer.
00:52Reads the description of the film.
00:54It continues.
00:55Marlee Matlin, Not Alone.
00:59Anymore feels like a full circle moment.
01:02As a child, filmmaker Shoshana Stern was inspired to believe that a deaf woman like herself could pursue a career as an actor after seeing Matlin win her Oscar.
01:12Stern's directorial debut is an intimate, honest, and loving conversation between two profoundly connected people that weaves together Matlin's first-person account with interviews from those who know her best.
01:25Matlin and the filmmaker's genuine understanding allows them to explore the good, the bad, and the traumatic throughout Matlin's career.
01:34From the early days and major successes to her famously tumultuous high-profile relationship, to the years of being ignored and patronized by Hollywood, and on to getting sober and repeatedly changing the game for her community, with and without their approval.
01:49Director Stern joined Matlin on the red carpet at the Tribeca Film Festival.
01:55Prior to making her directorial debut, she appeared on such shows as Weeds, Jericho, Supernatural, and This Close.
02:03Matlin won her Oscar and her Golden Globe for Children of a Lesser God back in 1986.
02:11She was also nominated for two Golden Globes for her work on the TV series Reasonable Doubts, and has four Emmy nominations to her name for Seinfeld, Picket Fences, The Practice, and Law and Order, SVU.
02:25She also played a memorable pollster on the West Wing, and in 2022 won a Screen Actors Guild Award for the film Coda, Child of Deaf Adults.
02:34She was nominated for a
02:45She's a full Emmy Award for the Fall Award for the
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