Marlee Matlin to guest star on 'Code Black'

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 17 (UPI) -- Oscar-winning actress Marlee Matlin is to guest star on the medical drama Code Black, CBS announced Thursday.

She will play Kathy Byrne, "a deaf patient who arrives at Angels Memorial with her translator after their car rolls over into the L.A. River," the network said in a press release.

The star of Children of a Lesser God -- whose small-screen credits include Switched at Birth, Reasonable Doubts, The L Word and The West Wing -- will appear in the Dec. 7 episode of Code Black.

Now in its second season, the Los Angeles-set show stars Raz Jaffrey, Rob Lowe, Luis Guzman and Marcia Gay Harden.