Heather Matarazzo Engaged
, AfterEllen.com
08.01.2008
6:17am EDT
25-year-old
actress Heather Matarazzo is officially engaged to musician Carolyn Murphy
(pictured above, Matarazzos publicist announced today.
It was love at first sight, according to Jammal. They both proposed to each other, It was really cute. First Heather proposed to Carolyn,
then Carolyn proposed to her. The two are very supportive of each other and totally
in love, Jammal added. No date for the wedding has been announced. Matarazzo
and Murphy at the 2008 Trevor Project Benefit Gala Matarazzo got her start as a tormented teen in the hit
indie film Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995) and went on to star in
mainstream movies like The Princess Diaries (2001) and indie films
like Saved! (2004) and Believe in Me (2006). She currently
co-stars in Logos lesbian comedy Exes
& Ohs, and was also recently seen in The L Word and the popular
horror movie Hostel II (2007). Matarazzo came out publicly as a lesbian in 2004, when
she was 21. In a 2006 interview with AfterEllen.com, Matarazzo
recalled her first kiss with a girl as a teenager. We were sitting in my pink room with pink carpeting, she described. It was summer and we were sitting Indian-style across from each other
and I was so incredibly nervous. And I thought, Yeah, I am definitely gay. In May, the California Supreme Court overturned the
ban on same-sex marriage, prompting a flood of gay and lesbian couples to
register to marry or announce their engagement including celebrities like Ellen DeGeneres and Portia
de Rossi, and George Takei and Brad Altman. Massachusetts is currently the only other state to
allow same-sex marriage. On Thursday, the Bay States governor officially signed legislation allowing
out-of-state gay couples as well as residents to marry in Massachusetts. 