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Heather Matarazzo
In 1996, Heather Matarazzo delivered one of the year's most striking film performances as the plain, bespectacled junior high student Dawn Weiner in "Welcome to the Dollhouse." Only eleven years old when the film was shot, the Long Island native offered a compelling and touching performance of a misunderstood middle child, battered by the taunts of classmates (who call her 'Weinerdog') and the particular attentions of one boy (Brendon Sexton III) who demonstrates his affection with threats of rape. Despite subject matter that was at times painful to watch, the young actress never flagged, holding the audience's sympathies even while displaying sibling rivalry. Like indie stalwart Lili Taylor, Matarazzo was willing to downplay her own unusual looks for the sake of the character.
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Heather Matarazzo
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 96% | No Score Yet | Booger | Unknown (Character) | - | 2024 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Booger, the Cat | Ellen (Character) | - | 2024 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Zombie Wedding | Sue Wee (Character) | - | 2023 |
| 94% |
|
The Mattachine Family | Annie (Character) | - | 2023 |
| No Score Yet |
|
You're Not Supposed to Be Here | Carla (Character) | - | 2023 |
| 27% |
|
The Estate | Mary (Character) | - | 2020 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Stuck | Darby (Character) | - | 2019 |
| No Score Yet |
|
Billboard | Jezebel (Character) | - | 2019 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Fiddling Horse | Rosalina Truman (Character) | - | 2018 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Smothered by Mothers | Annie (Character) | - | 2018 |
| 86% |
|
Girl Flu | Lilli (Character) | - | 2016 |
| 100% |
|
Her Composition | Gallery Owner (Character) | - | 2015 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sidewalk Traffic | Freda Rabinowitz (Character) | - | 2015 |
| No Score Yet |
|
Mangus! |
Jessica Simpson (Character), Producer |
- | 2011 |
| 44% |
|
Hostel Part II | Lorna (Character) | $17.5M | 2007 |
| 60% |
|
Believe in Me | Cindy Butts (Character) | $208.6K | 2006 |
| 32% |
|
Home of Phobia | Jessica (Character) | $10.5K | 2004 |
| 61% |
|
Saved! | Tia (Character) | $459.4K | 2004 |
| 26% |
|
The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement | Lilly Moscovitz (Character) | $95.1M | 2004 |
| 12% |
|
Sorority Boys | Katie (Character) | $10.2M | 2002 |
| 49% |
|
The Princess Diaries | Lilly Moscovitz (Character) | $108.2M | 2001 |
| 41% |
|
Scream 3 | Martha Meeks (Character) | $89.1M | 2000 |
| 20% |
|
Blue Moon | Donna (Character) | $76.1K | 2000 |
| No Score Yet |
|
Our Guys: Outrage in Glen Ridge | Leslie Faber (Character) | - | 1999 |
| No Score Yet |
|
Cherry | Dottie (Character) | - | 1999 |
| 90% | No Score Yet | Getting to Know You | Judith (Character) | - | 1999 |
| 15% |
|
54 | Grace O'Shea (Character) | $16.6M | 1998 |
| 67% |
|
All I Wanna Do | Theresa "Tweety" Goldberg (Character) | $780.5K | 1998 |
| No Score Yet |
|
The Deli | Sabrina (Character) | - | 1997 |
| 63% |
|
The Devil's Advocate | Barbara (Character) | $61.0M | 1997 |
| 88% |
|
Hurricane | Ashley (Character) | $334.0K | 1997 |
| 94% |
|
Welcome to the Dollhouse | Dawn Wiener (Character) | $4.8M | 1995 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 86% | 100% | Equal | Phyllis Lyon (Character) | 2020 |
| 84% | 72% | Grey's Anatomy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2015 |
| 20% | 81% | Stalker | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2014 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Exes & Ohs | Unknown (Character) | 2007 2009 |
| No Score Yet | 83% | Law & Order | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1998 2008 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Life on Mars | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2008 |
| 100% | 86% | Now and Again | Heather Wiseman (Character) | 1999-2000 |
| 76% | 78% | Roseanne | Heather (Guest Star) | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | 85% | ER | Alyssa Gunther (Guest Star) | 1997 |
| 30% | No Score Yet | Townies | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1996 |