Heather Matarazzo

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Heather Matarazzo
Born	November 10, 1982 (1982-11-10) (age 25) Long Island, New York

Heather Amy Matarazzo^[1] (born November 10, 1982) is an American actress. Her breakthrough role was as a geeky girl in the film Welcome to the Dollhouse. Besides Dollhouse, she's best known for her role as Lilly in The Princess Diaries and The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement.

Her other movies include Sorority Boys, Scream 3, Saved!, and Hostel: Part 2.

[edit] Early life and career

Matarazzo was born and raised in Long Island, New York, the daughter of Camille, a homemaker, and Ray Matarazzo, a data processing manager for a bakery chain.^[1] Matarazzo is of fully Irish descent,^[2] and was adopted and raised by the Matarazzos, a strict Catholic Italian American family.^[3][4] She attended Oyster Bay High School.

[edit] Filmography

[edit] Film

• Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995) - Dawn Wiener
• Hurricane Streets (1997) - Ashley
• The Devil's Advocate (1997) - Barbara
• 54 (1998) - Grace O'Shea
• Outrage in Glen Ridge (1998) - Julie
• The Hairy Bird (1998) - Theresa 'Tweety' Goldberg
• Scream 3 (2000) - Martha Meeks
• The Princess Diaries (2001) - Lilly Moscovitz
• Sorority Boys (2002) - Katie
• The Pink House (2003) - Charlotte
• Saved! (2004) - Tia
• Freshman Orientation (2004) - Jessica
• The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004) - Lilly Moscovitz
• Believe In Me (2005) - Cindy Butts
• Hostel: Part II (2007) - Lorna

[edit] Television

• The Adventures of Pete and Pete (1993) - Natasha, a neighborhood friend of Pete
• Townies (1996) - Bethany
• Roseanne (1997) - Heather, DJ's girlfriend
• Now and Again (1999) - Heather Wiseman
• Strangers with Candy (2000) - one of Jerri's friends in the episode "Is My Daddy Crazy?"
• The L Word (2006) - Stacey Merkin, a reporter interviewing Jenny Schecter
• Exes and Ohs (2007) - Crutch
• Indie Sex: Teens ^[5][6] (2007) - as herself

[edit] Trivia

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• Auditioned for the role of Lex Murphy in Jurassic Park (1993). The role eventually went to Ariana Richards.
• Listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1995" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 47. [1995]
• Turned down the role of Denise Fleming in Can't Hardly Wait (1998).
• Arrested in New York in 2006 (August) for defending the rights of the sans-papiers
• Member of the jury at the Sundance Film Festival in 2005.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Heather Matarazzo at the Internet Movie Database
• Rotten Tomatoes summary
• NY Daily News: From geek to oh, my goodness
• The Advocate: October 2004 interview with Heather Matarazzo
• AfterEllen.com: Welcome to the New Heather Matarazzo
• Her Profile at MySpace