Switched at Birth – about 1/2 the cast is Deaf-- and played by Deaf actors
Robert T. Ironside, Ironside - uses a wheelchair
Adam Janikowsky, Mom – wheelchair
Walter White Jr., Breaking Bad - cerebral palsy
Louis Canning, The Good Wife – inexplicably, Tardive Dyskinesia, albeit, he’s played by Michael J. Fox who has a different movement disorder IRL-- Parkinson’s disease
Steve Austin, The Six Million Dollar Man – both legs, right arm, and left eye replaced by sci-fi ‘bionic’ prosthetics
Switched at Birth – about 1/2 the cast is Deaf-- and played by Deaf actors
Robert T. Ironside, Ironside - uses a wheelchair
Adam Janikowsky, Mom – wheelchair
Walter White Jr., Breaking Bad - cerebral palsy
Louis Canning, The Good Wife – inexplicably, Tardive Dyskinesia, albeit, he’s played by Michael J. Fox who has a different movement disorder IRL-- Parkinson’s disease
Steve Austin, The Six Million Dollar Man – both legs, right arm, and left eye replaced by sci-fi ‘bionic’ prosthetics
Jerry “Hands” Espenson, Boston Legal - Asperger’s Syndrome (mild autism)
[quote=“Skunkdog, post:4242, topic:972711, full:true”] Differently-abled roles on TV
Longstreet - blindness
Arthur “Artie” Abrams, Glee - uses a wheelchair
Switched at Birth – about 1/2 the cast is Deaf-- and played by Deaf actors
Robert T. Ironside, Ironside - uses a wheelchair
Adam Janikowsky, Mom – wheelchair
Walter White Jr., Breaking Bad - cerebral palsy
Louis Canning, The Good Wife – inexplicably, Tardive Dyskinesia, albeit, he’s played by Michael J. Fox who has a different movement disorder IRL-- Parkinson’s disease
Steve Austin, The Six Million Dollar Man – both legs, right arm, and left eye replaced by sci-fi ‘bionic’ prosthetics
Jerry “Hands” Espenson, Boston Legal - Asperger’s Syndrome (mild autism)
Stevie - Malcolm in the Middle - wheel chair and asthma