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In 2006, she played a deaf parent in Desperate Housewives.

She also had a recurring role as Joy Turner's ( who made many jokes of Marlee's deafness at her expense ) public defender in My Name Is Earl and played the mother of one of the victims in an episode of CSI: NY.

That same year, Matlin was cast in season 4 of The L Word as Jodi Lerner, a gay deaf sculptor.

She appeared in season 4 ( 2007 ), season 5 ( 2008 ) and season 6 ( 2009 ) as the girlfriend of one of the show's protagonists, Bette Porter, ( played by Jennifer Beals ).