Favorite actor with a disability?
by yrnej | created - 28 Aug 2014 | updated - 19 Dec 2014 | PublicWhich of these actors who are disabled in real life is your favorite? (living actors only; tried to stay away from diseases developed later in life, sticking more with disabilities from birth or caused by an accident or other means)
Discuss the list here
1. Auti Angel
Actress | Only Human
Auti Angel was born on October 15, 1969 in San Diego, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Only Human (2019), Musical Chairs (2011) and Hollywood Sex Wars (2011). She was married to Eric 'Stretch Boogie' Rivera. She died on March 23, 2022 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
paraplegic
2. Sean Berdy
Actor | The Society
Sean Berdy was born on June 3rd, 1993 in Boca Raton, Florida, to parents Terrie and Scott Berdy. At a young age Sean began putting on impromptu comedic shows alongside his brother, Tyler, to the delight of family and friends. Seeing the joy he brought to others while performing, he became ...
deaf
3. Halle Berry
Actress | Catwoman
Halle Maria Berry was born Maria Halle Berry on August 14, 1966 in Cleveland, Ohio and raised in Oakwood, Ohio to Judith Ann Berry (née Hawkins), a psychiatric nurse & Jerome Jesse Berry, a hospital attendant. Her father was African-American and her mother is of mostly English and German descent. ...
partially deaf
4. Michael Berryman
Actor | Weird Science
Late 1970s horror genre icon who's best known for his creepy performance as "Pluto" in the uncompromising Wes Craven horror film The Hills Have Eyes (1977). Berryman (who suffers from Hypohidrotic Ectodermal Dysplasia, a rare condition leaving him with no sweat glands, hair, fingernails or teeth) ...
Hypohidrotic Ectodermal Dysplasia
5. Linda Bove
Actress | Follow That Bird
Born deaf, she was a founding member of the National Theater of the Deaf in 1963. In 1974, she received the AMITA--the Italian-American Award for her work on television. Best known for playing Linda on Sesame Street (1969) for over 20 years--the longest-running role on American television for a ...
deaf
6. Jamie Brewer
Actress | American Horror Story
Jamie Brewer is known for her breakthrough dimensional role as Adelaide 'Addie' Langdon in American Horror Story (2011). She has a theatre background which started in 1999. She has continued her theatre and improvisation training at the 'Ruskin School of Acting', and at the 'Howard Fine Acting ...
Down Syndrome
7. Chris Burke
Actor | Life Goes On
Chris Burke was born on August 26, 1965 in Point Lookout, New York, USA. He is an actor, known for Life Goes On (1989), Mona Lisa Smile (2003) and Heaven & Hell: North & South, Book III (1994).
Down Syndrome
8. Stephen Colbert
Writer | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Stephen Tyrone Colbert (pronounced "cole-BEAR") was born on May 13, 1964 in Washington, D.C., and grew up in Charleston, South Carolina. He is the son of Lorna Elizabeth (Tuck) and James William Colbert, Jr., a doctor and medical school dean at Yale, Saint Louis University, and MUSC. He is the ...
partially deaf
9. Lou Ferrigno
Actor | The Incredible Hulk
An internationally famous and well respected bodybuilder / actor, Lou Ferrigno first appeared on TV screens in 1977 as the musclebound title character of The Incredible Hulk (1978), the alter ego of meek scientist David Banner. Ferrigno was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1951 and as a child ...
partially deaf
10. Robert David Hall
Actor | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Robert David Hall was born on November 9, 1947 in East Orange, New Jersey, USA. He is an actor, known for CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000), Starship Troopers (1997) and The Negotiator (1998). He has been married to Judy Stearns since 1999. He was previously married to Connie Cole and Susan ...
double amputee
11. Russell Harvard
Actor | There Will Be Blood
Russell Harvard was born April 16, 1981 in Pasadena, Texas to Kay and Henry Harvard. Russell and his brother, Renny, were born deaf. When the boys were old enough to start school, the family moved to Austin, Texas so they could attend the Texas School for the Deaf (TSD). Russell attended TSD from ...
deaf
12. Geri Jewell
Actress | Deadwood
Geri Jewell was born on September 13, 1956 in Buffalo, New York, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Deadwood (2004), 21 Jump Street (1987) and The Facts of Life (1979). She was previously married to Richard Pimentel.
cerebral palsy
13. Katie Leclerc
Actress | Switched at Birth
Katie Leclerc's career began in 2005, when she made her first appearance on Veronica Mars (2004). This jump-started a series of minor roles and small appearances in movies and TV shows. She got her breakout role starring as a deaf teenager, Daphne Vasquez, who finds out she was taken home by the ...
deaf
14. Mitch Longley
Actor | Port Charles
Mitch Longley grew up in Rowayton CT. As a child and teenager, he performed in local community and school plays, acting and singing. He was a student at Brien McMahon High School and was involved in various after school programs and athletics including band. He became an avid tennis player and his ...
paraplegic
15. Jane Lynch
Actress | Wreck-It Ralph
Jane Marie Lynch is an American actress, comedian and author. She is known for starring as Sue Sylvester in the musical comedy series Glee (2009-2015), which earned her a Primetime Emmy Award. Lynch also gained recognition for her roles in Christopher Guest's mockumentary films, such as Best in ...
partially deaf
16. Marlee Matlin
Actress | CODA
Marlee Beth Matlin was born on August 24, 1965 in Morton Grove, Illinois, to Libby (Hammer) and Donald Matlin, an automobile dealer. She has two older brothers. Her family is of Russian Jewish and Polish Jewish descent.
Marlee lost much of her hearing at the age of eighteen months. That did not stop...
deaf
17. Daryl Mitchell
Actor | 10 Things I Hate About You
Daryl Mitchell was born on July 16, 1965 in The Bronx, New York, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for 10 Things I Hate About You (1999), Inside Man (2006) and Galaxy Quest (1999). He has been married to Carol since 1998. They have four children.
paraplegic
18. RJ Mitte
Actor | Breaking Bad
In 2006 R.J. Mitte moved to Hollywood, California, with his family to support the foray of his sister, actress Lacianne Carriere, into print and commercial work. For fun, Mitte began training with Los Angeles talent manager Addison K. Witt in Sherman Oaks, Cal. And though many of the actors in the ...
cerebral palsy
19. Lauren Potter
Actress | Glee
Lauren Potter was born on May 10, 1990 in Inland Empire, California, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Glee (2009), Those Who Wish Me Dead (2021) and Guest Room (2015).
Down Syndrome
20. Angela Rockwood
Actress | V.I.P.
Angela Rockwood was born on March 14, 1975 in Clovis, New Mexico, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for V.I.P. (1998), Love, Bees and Fuckery and The Crow Fan Film (2020). She was previously married to Dustin Nguyen.
quadriplegic
21. Paula Sage
Actress | AfterLife
Paula Sage is known for AfterLife (2003), The Party's Just Beginning (2018) and River City (2002).
Down Syndrome
22. Teal Sherer
Actress | Survivor's Remorse
Teal Sherer is known for Survivor's Remorse (2014), The Guild (2007) and NCIS: New Orleans (2014).
paraplegic
23. Sylvester Stallone
Actor | Rocky
Sylvester Stallone is an athletically built, dark-haired American actor/screenwriter/director/producer, the movie fans worldwide have been flocking to see Stallone's films for over 40 years, making "Sly" one of Hollywood's biggest-ever box office draws.
Sylvester Stallone was born on July 6, 1946, ...
partially paralyzed face
24. Tom Sullivan
Actor | Airport '77
Tom Sullivan - known to many as an actor, singer, entertainer, author and producer - lives and works by "Sullivan's Rules." One of Sullivan's first rules is that any negative can be turned into positive.
Born prematurely in 1947, Tom was given too much oxygen while in an incubator. Though it saved ...
blind
25. Dean Winters
Actor | John Wick
Dean Winters is known for his role as Ryan O'Reily on HBO's award-winning series Oz (1997) and as Tina Fey's character's "Beeper King" boyfriend on the Emmy-winning comedy, 30 Rock (2006). His noteworthy comedic performance was recently included in Entertainment Weekly's "Must List" as well as ...
finger and toes amputated
26. Kurt Yaeger
Actor | Sunrise
Kurt Yaeger became an amputee, broke his pelvis in half, bladder torn in half, broke seven vertebra, and a number of other injuries in a motorcycle accident. After two years of recovery he shot multiple films and tv shows then landed Greg the Peg on the hit series Sons of Anarchy (2008) which ...
amputee
27. Jim Byrnes
Actor | Highlander
Born on September 22, 1948, Jim Byrnes grew up in St. Louis, the middle child of a middle class family. He learned to play blues guitar at thirteen years old, and continues to play on his favorite guitar, a Gibson 1969 Hummingbird. An eclectic soul, he studied for the priesthood in a seminary, and ...
double amputee
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