Phyllis Frelich (Betty Grissom) won a Best Actress Tony award for the 1980 stage version of "Children of a Lesser God", while Marlee Matlin (Julia Holden) won a Best Actress Oscar award for the film version, Children of a Lesser God (1986).
Actress Marlee Matlin also appeared previously as a deaf mother in an episode of CSI:NY , more exactly in Silent Night (2006).
Anthony Natale (Dr. Lambert) and Marlee Matlin (Julia Holden) both appear in Switched at Birth (2011) as a former couple.