(CNN)-- Deaf actress Marlee Matlin has captivated millions ... and being drunk and being high ... Matlin: All the time. Behar: He's a big fellow. He might have hurt you. You are a small girl.

I could only be me, and I wanted to make things better - for Marlee and for me, and, of course, for all other deaf people that watch the films. To know that change is possible. MATLIN: This movie ...

In 1987, Marlee Matlin became the first Deaf actor to win an Academy Award and was thrust into the spotlight at 21 years old. Reflecting on her life in her primary language of American Sign ...

"This validates the fact that we deaf actors can work just like anybody else," Marlee Matlin said while accepting the award for CODA Benjamin VanHoose is a Staff Editor on the Movies team at PEOPLE.

Alberto Rodriguez/Variety via Getty; Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Marlee Matlin is turning back ... Characters in Contrasting Looks at Movie's L.A. Premiere Carrie Underwood ...

This movie explores Academy Award winner Marlee Matlin’s life as a groundbreaking ... He has interviewed some of the biggest names in music, entertainment, lifestyle, magic, and sports.

Subjects include Oscar-winning actor Marlee Matlin, Christo Grozev, an investigative journalist and co-founder of Bellingcat, Israeli comedian Noam Shuster Eliassi, and Silas Malafaia, Brazil’s ...

(CNN)-- Deaf actress Marlee Matlin has captivated millions ... and being drunk and being high ... Matlin: All the time. Behar: He's a big fellow. He might have hurt you. You are a small girl.