Heather Matarazzo Biography (3)
Heather Matarazzo took the independent film world by storm at the age of 14 when she starred as Dawn Weiner, the brilliantly troubled adolescent girl at the center of Todd Solondz' Welcome To The Dollhouse. The film was honored with the Grand Jury Prize at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival and Matarazzo received the 1997 Independent Spirit Award for Best Debut Performance. She followed Dollhouse with another strong performance in Miramax Film's 54, a role which earned her a Best Performance by a Young Actress nomination from the YoungStar Awards.
Her other film credits include the 1993 Mobil Award winning film A Children's Story, Devil's Advocate, Cherry, Getting to Know You, Hurricane Streets and The Deli. On television, Matarazzo has guest starred on Law and Order, ER, Roseanne, Townies and created the role of Natasha on the Nickelodeon series The Adventures of Pete & Pete. Recently she appeared in the telefilm Our Guys: Outrage at Glen Ridge and also played the role of Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker on stage at the Geva Theater in Rochester, New York. Heather can currently be seen on the CBS series Now and Again, in the current Miramax release of Scream 3, and she will soon appear in Peter Akin's Company Man with Sigourney Weaver and John Turturro.
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