Famous People with Name Marlee

Marlee Beth Matlin            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Marlee Beth Matlin: an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award-winning American actress who is deaf.Matlin made her stage debut at the age of seven, as Dorothy in a children's theatre version of The Wizard of Oz, and continued to appear with the same children's theatre group throughout her childhood.Her film debut, 1986's Children of a Lesser God, brought her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Drama and an Academy Award for Best Actress. She is one of the few actors to win an Oscar for their debut performance,

Marleen Gorris            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Marleen Gorris: is a writer-director from the Netherlands. Gorris is known as an outspoken feminist and supporter of gay and lesbian issues which is reflected in much of her work.She wrote and directed the films A Question of Silence (1982), Broken Mirrors (1984), The Last Island (1991), and Antonia's Line (1995 - Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film), Mrs. Dalloway (1997 - based on the novel by Virginia Woolf) and The Luzhin Defence (2000 - originally a Nabokov novel).

Marleen Kuppens            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Marleen Kuppens: is a Belgian sprint canoer who competed from the mid 1970s to the mid 1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, she earned her best finish of ninth in the K-2 500 m event at Los Angeles in 1984.

Marleen Van Iersel            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Marleen Van Iersel: is a Dutch professional beach volleyball player born in Breda.She played indoor volleyball for a few years before she switched onto the beach in 2001. The first two years she played just for fun. In 2003 she was selected by the Sourcy Volleybalschool. Mar

Marleen Caroline Valère Vanderpoorten            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Marleen Caroline Valère Vanderpoorten: a Flemish politician and member of the VLD. She is a daughter of Herman Vanderpoorten and a granddaughter of Arthur Vanderpoorten. She obtained a degree in history from the University of Ghent (Ghent, Belgium).From 1999 to 2004 she was the Minister of Edu