Anthony Carrigan has an autoimmune disorder that caused all the hair on his body to fall out. He played the psychopath villain Victor Zsaz in the TV show Gotham, and amiable Russian gangster NoHo Hank in Barry.
Daryl Hannah – missing fingertip
Rondo Hatton, Andre the Giant – acromegaly
Ricardo Montalban – “In 1993, he had a 9 1/2 hour surgical operation on his spine to repair an old back injury he received while filming Across the Wide Missouri (1951). He had been in constant pain ever since and confined to a wheelchair as a paraplegic.” (from IMDB)
Susan Peters – paralyzed in a rifle accident in 1945, she made a comeback in The Sign of the Ram (1948) and did 9 episodes of a forgotten failed 1951 TV series, as well as stage work.
Prince Randian (acted in Freaks ) – tetra-amelia syndrome (i.e., limbless) - Prince Randian - Wikipedia
Danny Thomas – missing finger
I did the EXACT SAME THING.
Ellen Corby had a stroke but returned to The Waltons.
Broadway actor Ali Stroker is in a wheelchair. She was in a car accident that damaged her spinal cord. She won a Tony for her role in “Oklahoma!” She also starred in the Deaf West production of “Spring Awakening”, although she isn’t deaf. (Not all of the actors in the production were deaf).
Deaf actor Troy Kotsur was just nominated for an Oscar for his role in the film “CODA”.
Actually it was ironically on D-day but at Camp Mackall in North Carolina when, as an instructor, had a defective fuse detonate some TNT.
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Michael Patrick Thornton was paralyzed by two spinal strokes in his 20s and uses a wheelchair. He had a memorable recurring character on Private Practice playing Audra McDonald’s love interest.
Comedian Rosie Jones, who has cerebral palsy, also does some acting (I believe she was recently in Casualty).
I’ve never seen so many amputees in commercials nowadays. I guess they’re actors. There’s even a woman sans leg paddle boarding, and the commercial hasn’t got anything to do with the leg, no mention of wounded warrior or anything. Another commercial has a guy with missing parts diving into the pool for a swim. I don’t think his condition has anything to do with the commercial’s story.
NCIS New Orleans actor Daryl “Chill” Mitchell.
Actor Ruth Madeley was born with spina bifida and performs in a wheelchair. She is active in the UK, but some of you may have seen her as Ingrid in The Rook.
Quick side bar: In general, the community prefers the term “disabled”.
Thanks for the correction! I’ll be sure to do better next time.
For completeness, there’s a summary of preferred terminology here. I think this is a great example of sensible progressive use of language, including the fact that evasive euphemism is disfavored.
Depending on whether you draw a hard line between actor and extra, based on one of its Behind the Scenes documentaries, the Walking Dead has a high demand for people with missing limbs as zombie and other casualty extras.
If strokes are being counted, the late Robert Guillaume suffered a stroke in 1999. The show he was on at the time, Aaron Sorkin’s Sports Night, incorporated his stroke and recovery into the storyline.
Actors with severe hearing loss or complete deafness:
Millicent Simmonds (A Quiet Place movies)
Aryana Engineer (The Orphan)
Sandra Mae Frank (New Amsterdam)
Shoshannah Stern (Jericho; Weeds)
Marlee Matlin (Children of a Lesser God; Quantico; Picket Fences)
So is Paul Stanley of KISS, sort of. He was only born with one ear; he had cosmetic surgery to make a normal looking ear on the other side.
He’s not really an actor, but journalist Miles O’Brien had to have one arm amputated at the elbow several years ago, after a freak accident.
Pregnancy is a disabling condition, at least temporarily, and has been written into the story line for years, since at least Lucille Ball in I Love Lucy. Way too many times to be listed here.
Oh, come on. You might as well consider those of us who are left-handed as disabled if you’re going to drag pregnancy into it.
The King of obscurity strikes again!
Asian movies that have amazing performances by the performers.
Elbowroom / Soom
## Plot Synopsis by AsianWiki Staff ©
When Su-Hee (Park Ji-Won) was 5-years-old she was abandoned by her mother and left to live in a Christian run institution for the disabled. Su-Hee is physically disabled. She has lived in the institution all her life and is now a young adult. Su-Hee meets a man named Min-Soo who also lives in the institution and is disabled. They shared a close bond and fall in love. Su-Hee and Min-Soo have their own secret room where they spend time together. The couple also have sex there.
One day In the bathroom, a volunteer notices Su-Hee’s swollen stomach and realizes she is pregnant. Everything will change for Su-Hee. Welfare authorities assume Su-Hee was raped and she is taken away to live in another shelter for young women. Su-Hee feels uncomfortable surrounded by non-disabled teens and feels loneliness …
https://asianwiki.com/Elbowroom
If you don’t fall in love with Su-hee the character and Park Ji Won the actress, you have no heart!
Her beautiful smile! https://asianwiki.com/Park_Ji-Won_(actress_2)
She was disabled do to the doctor’s error at her birth.
Late Bloomer / Osio Hito
Sumida Masakiyo is a severely-disabled man who lives an independent life with the help of an electric wheelchair, voice machine, and a carer. Using his real name, Sumida exerts himself to act the role of the “attacker Sumida”. Sumida is leading a peaceful life in the good company of a musician Take (Hotta Naozo), a carer as well as a good listener, when a college student, Nobuko (Torii Mari), wishing to gain some experience of care, appears. Sumida becomes attracted to Nobuko, but a feeling of discomfort, which he finds hard to come to terms with, develops in him and gradually he surrenders himself to insanity. Sumida commits a string of killings, and the story converges towards a bloody ending.
Arita Ariko has CP and turns in an amazing performance.