title: Marlee Matlin filmography
Marlee Matlin
Tom Cruise filmography
Dance with Me (film)
Randa Haines
The Doctor (1991 film)
Mark Medoff
The Ron Clark Story
Children of a Lesser God
William Hurt
sentences: The following is a list of the film and television appearances of American actress Marlee Matlin.
 Matlin, who had previously acted in stage productions, made her screen debut as the female lead in the 1986 film "Children of a Lesser God", for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress and a Golden Globe Award.
Marlee Beth Matlin (born August 24, 1965) is an American actress.
 She won the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for "Children of a Lesser God" (1986) and to date is the only deaf performer to have won the award.
 Her work in film and television has resulted in a Golden Globe award, with two additional nominations, and four Emmy nominations.
 Deaf since she was 18 months old, due to illness and high fevers, she is also a prominent member of the National Association of the Deaf.
 Her longtime interpreter is Jack Jason.
Tom Cruise is an American actor and producer who made his film debut with a minor role in the 1981 romantic drama "Endless Love".
 Two years later he made his breakthrough by starring in the romantic comedy "Risky Business" (1983), which garnered Cruise his first nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.
 In 1986, Cruise played a fighter pilot in the Tony Scott-directed action drama "Top Gun" (the highest-grossing film that year), and also starred opposite Paul Newman in the Martin Scorsese-directed drama "The Color of Money".
 Two years later he played opposite Dustin Hoffman in the Academy Award for Best Picture-winning drama "Rain Man" (1988), and also appeared in the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture-winning romantic drama "Cocktail" (1988).
 In doing so Cruise became the first and only person as of 2014 to star in a Best Picture Oscar winner and a Worst Picture Razzie winner in the same year.
 His next role was as anti-war activist Ron Kovic in the drama adaptation of Kovic's memoir of the same name, "Born on the Fourth of July" (1989).
 For his performance Cruise received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama and his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor.
Dance with Me is a 1998 drama film on love and dance directed by Randa Haines and starring Vanessa L. Williams and Puerto Rican singer Chayanne.
Randa Jo Haines (born February 20, 1945 in Los Angeles) is a film and television director and producer.
 Haines started her career as a script supervisor on several low-budget features in the 1970s, including "Let's Scare Jessica to Death" and "The Groove Tube".
 She is perhaps most famous for directing the critically acclaimed feature film "Children of a Lesser God" (1986), which starred William Hurt and Marlee Matlin, for which Matlin won the 1987 Academy Award as Best Actress.
 Haines also won the Silver Bear at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival.
 In 1989 she was a member of the jury at the 39th Berlin International Film Festival.
 In 2002 she was a member of the jury at the 24th Moscow International Film Festival.
The Doctor is a 1991 drama film directed by Randa Haines.
 It is loosely based on Dr. Edward Rosenbaum's 1988 book, "A Taste Of My Own Medicine".
 The film stars William Hurt as Jack MacKee, a doctor who undergoes a transformation in his views about life, illness and human relationships.
Mark Medoff (born March 18, 1940) is an American playwright, screenwriter, film and theatre director, actor, and professor.
 His play "Children of a Lesser God" received both the Tony Award and the Olivier Award.
 He was nominated for an Academy Award and a Writers Guild of America Best Adapted Screenplay Award for the film script of "Children of a Lesser God" and for a Cable ACE Award for his HBO Premiere movie, "Apology".
 He also received an Obie Award for his play "When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?
" Medoff's feature film "Refuge" was released in 2010.
The Ron Clark Story is a 2006 television film starring Matthew Perry.
 The film is based on the real-life educator Ron Clark.
 It follows the inspiring tale of an idealistic teacher who leaves his small hometown to teach in a New York City public school, where he faces trouble with the students.
 The film was directed by Randa Haines, and was released directly on television.
Children of a Lesser God is a 1986 American romantic drama film directed by Randa Haines and written by Hesper Anderson and Mark Medoff.
 An adaptation of Medoff's Tony Award–winning stage play of the same name, the film stars Marlee Matlin (in an Oscar-winning performance) and William Hurt as employees at a school for the deaf: a deaf custodian and a hearing speech teacher, whose conflicting ideologies on speech and deafness create tension and discord in their developing romantic relationship.
William McChord Hurt (born March 20, 1950) is an American actor.
 He received his acting training at the Juilliard School and began acting on stage in the 1970s.
 Hurt made his film debut in 1980 as a troubled scientist in Ken Russell's science-fiction feature "Altered States", for which he received a Golden Globe nomination for New Star of the Year.
 He subsequently played a leading role, as a lawyer who succumbs to the temptations of Kathleen Turner, in the neo-noir "Body Heat" (1981), and, as Arkady Renko, in Gorky Park (1983).

Question: Question: What Golden Globe nominated American actor from Juilliard School played a role in the 1986 romantic drama film, Children of a Lesser God, directed by Randa Haines? 

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 The following is a list of the film and television appearances of American actress Marlee Matlin.
 Matlin, who had previously acted in stage productions, made her screen debut as the female lead in the 1986 film "Children of a Lesser God", for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress and a Golden Globe Award. 

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 Marlee Beth Matlin (born August 24, 1965) is an American actress.
 She won the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for "Children of a Lesser God" (1986) and to date is the only deaf performer to have won the award.
 Her work in film and television has resulted in a Golden Globe award, with two additional nominations, and four Emmy nominations.
 Deaf since she was 18 months old, due to illness and high fevers, she is also a prominent member of the National Association of the Deaf.
 Her longtime interpreter is Jack Jason. 

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 Tom Cruise is an American actor and producer who made his film debut with a minor role in the 1981 romantic drama "Endless Love".
 Two years later he made his breakthrough by starring in the romantic comedy "Risky Business" (1983), which garnered Cruise his first nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.
 In 1986, Cruise played a fighter pilot in the Tony Scott-directed action drama "Top Gun" (the highest-grossing film that year), and also starred opposite Paul Newman in the Martin Scorsese-directed drama "The Color of Money".
 Two years later he played opposite Dustin Hoffman in the Academy Award for Best Picture-winning drama "Rain Man" (1988), and also appeared in the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture-winning romantic drama "Cocktail" (1988).
 In doing so Cruise became the first and only person as of 2014 to star in a Best Picture Oscar winner and a Worst Picture Razzie winner in the same year.
 His next role was as anti-war activist Ron Kovic in the drama adaptation of Kovic's memoir of the same name, "Born on the Fourth of July" (1989).
 For his performance Cruise received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama and his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. 

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 Dance with Me is a 1998 drama film on love and dance directed by Randa Haines and starring Vanessa L. Williams and Puerto Rican singer Chayanne. 

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 Mark Medoff (born March 18, 1940) is an American playwright, screenwriter, film and theatre director, actor, and professor.
 His play "Children of a Lesser God" received both the Tony Award and the Olivier Award.
 He was nominated for an Academy Award and a Writers Guild of America Best Adapted Screenplay Award for the film script of "Children of a Lesser God" and for a Cable ACE Award for his HBO Premiere movie, "Apology".
 He also received an Obie Award for his play "When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?
" Medoff's feature film "Refuge" was released in 2010. 

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 The Ron Clark Story is a 2006 television film starring Matthew Perry.
 The film is based on the real-life educator Ron Clark.
 It follows the inspiring tale of an idealistic teacher who leaves his small hometown to teach in a New York City public school, where he faces trouble with the students.
 The film was directed by Randa Haines, and was released directly on television. 

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 Children of a Lesser God is a 1986 American romantic drama film directed by Randa Haines and written by Hesper Anderson and Mark Medoff.
 An adaptation of Medoff's Tony Award–winning stage play of the same name, the film stars Marlee Matlin (in an Oscar-winning performance) and William Hurt as employees at a school for the deaf: a deaf custodian and a hearing speech teacher, whose conflicting ideologies on speech and deafness create tension and discord in their developing romantic relationship. 

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 William McChord Hurt (born March 20, 1950) is an American actor.
 He received his acting training at the Juilliard School and began acting on stage in the 1970s.
 Hurt made his film debut in 1980 as a troubled scientist in Ken Russell's science-fiction feature "Altered States", for which he received a Golden Globe nomination for New Star of the Year.
 He subsequently played a leading role, as a lawyer who succumbs to the temptations of Kathleen Turner, in the neo-noir "Body Heat" (1981), and, as Arkady Renko, in Gorky Park (1983). 

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Answer: William Hurt