UPDATE: The deaf actress won a Tony Award for her leading role in the 1980 Broadway play. Marlee Matlin earned an Oscar for playing the part in the film version. By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Phyllis ...

Deaf, Tony-winning actress Phyllis Frelich, who both inspired and starred in the Broadway version of “Children of a Lesser God,” died Thursday in her Temple City, Calif. home. She was 70. According to ...

CSI has located the mother of Gil Grissom. Tony Award-winner Phyllis Frelich has landed this key role and will appear in an episode tentatively scheduled for February 3. Here’s a rundown of what’s on ...

(AP) — Phyllis Frelich, a Tony Award-winning deaf actress who starred in the Broadway version of “Children of a Lesser God,” has died. She was 70. Frelich, died on Thursday at their home in Temple ...

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