Indian mega-star Hrithik Roshan famously has two thumbs on his right hand.
Michael O’Hare, probably best known as Commander Jeffrey Sinclair on Babylon 5, suffered from severe mental illness. His paranoid delusions and hallucinations apparently made it increasing difficult for him to work, but he still finished out the first season, and returned for a couple of guest appearances in later seasons.
Jewell also had a memorable role in Deadwood.
Another actor with cerebral palsy is Micah Fowler, one of the stars of the sitcom Speechless. However, unlike his character, JJ, Fowler is able to speak.
Russell Harvard, who played the deaf hitman Mr. Wrench on Fargo (the TV Series), is deaf in real life.
Ryan O’Connell has cerebral palsy, and stars in the show Special which is based on his memoirs.
I’m surprised no one mentioned Christopher Reeve yet. He continued acting after he got paralyzed from the shoulders down in a horse-riding accident.
Harold Russell lost two hands in an accident early on during World War II, and his character in The Best Years of Our Lives highlighted that. He was only in a couple other things during his career.
What???
Bet he has no trouble getting a ride…
Robert David Hall, who played the medical examiner in pretty much the whole run of the original CSI is a double leg amputee, the result an accident involving an 18-wheeler.
Longtime TV game show host Bill Cullen had a lot of mobility problems due to polio and an automobile accident. You can read more about it in his wiki. It recounts Mel Brooks’ having met him after one of the game shows and actually seeing him walk, thinking it was an act.
Nadia Albina is a UK actress who came to the attention of American audiences in the recent Doctor Who: Flux, playing Diane. She was born with a withered right arm; it is noticeable in the show, but no one makes note of it.
James Doohan and Telly Savalas lost fingers, Doohan in the Normandy Invasion.
Losing an arm and a leg in a motorcycle accident didn’t end James Stacey’s acting career. (A conviction for child molestation did that.)
From Jim Stacy’s Wikipedia page:
Stacy’s ex-wife, actress and singer Connie Stevens, organized a 1974 celebrity gala to raise money for his expenses. The gala, whose attendees included Frank Sinatra and Barbra Streisand, raised $118,000 ($0.6 million today) for his expenses.
Wow, interesting to read that the cost of health care in America was prohibitive back then too. Connie Stevens may have unwittingly invented GoFundMe.
I did not know that, but I noticed a long time ago that he had one ear that stuck out at kind of a weird angle. Is that the same ear? Does one have anything to do with the other?
Yes. I guess to perform the surgery he had on his perforated eardrum, they remove the ear and put it back. It’s hard to put back correctly.
As is Rob Lowe.
Mat Fraser (the actor, not the athlete) has malformed arms caused by in utero exposure to thalidomide.
Not (necessarily) a permanent condition, but Timothy Omundson (of Psych fame) suffered a major stroke in 2017 which impaired his ability to walk; he continues to work as he slowly recovers.
Tim Curry likewise suffered a stroke in 2012 and now uses a wheelchair, but still does voice acting work.
I don’t see any credits for him since 2008 but an actor named Howie Seago is deaf from birth. I saw him in a second season episode of ST-TNG and was impressed. “Loud as a Whisper” was the episode that made me not give up on the series.
See, I read something like this and I think “he seemed just fine in Galavant!” And then I check imdb and see that Galavant was 2015-2016. Yeesh!
He’s played a character on “This Is Us” the last couple seasons, Kate and Toby’s next door neighbor who is also recovering from a stroke and has difficulty walking.
Do cartoon actors count? There’s a Family Guy episode where Peter (for reasons I cannot recall) is directing paraplegic Joe in a movie. Peter keeps getting mad that Joe will not get out of his wheelchair in the scene - because the character he’s playing can walk just fine.
ETA: here we go
