The deaf actress is best known for the role she played on the NBC show New Amsterdam, oncologist Elizabeth Wilder. Family: She was born on March 31, 1990 in Louisville, Kentucky to William and Kim Frank. She has a brother named Jasper Frank and a sister named Anne-Marie Frank. She presently lives in Austin, Texas with her cat and boyfriend Julian, who is a videographer. She identifies as pansexual. Hearing: Sandra Mae Frank was born premature and slowly lost her hearing unti

On March 30, 1987, William Hurt presented Marlee Matlin with the Best Actress Oscar at the 59th Annual Academy Awards. Only 21 years old, Matlin became the first deaf person to win for her role in Children of a Lesser God.  She played a custodian at a school for the deaf and hard of hearing and became romantically involved with a new hearing teacher played by William Hurt. At age eight, she began taking roles in children’s theater productions for the International Center on D