Disabled Actors Found

It turns out, and I am beyond delighted to say this, there are disabled actors working in television.

My friends told me about these:

Robert David Hall as the coroner, Dr. Al Robbins, in CSI.
Michael Patrick Thornton as Dr. Gabriel Fife in Private Practice
Zach Weinstein as Sean Fretthold in an episode of Glee (too bad they had him just laying in bed the whole episode)

“I just believe that everyone should have an equal opportunity to try for parts, whether they’re able-bodied or disabled,” Weinstein says. “And the best actor — whoever that is — should get it.”

Well said, I couldn’t agree more.

ETA: And more!

http://www.tealsherer.com/ Teal Sherer, who has a recurring role on the webshow The Guild and is working on her own project My Gimpy Life

http://www.kerrymcgregoronline.com  Kerry McGregor, who is an actress and a singer, making it quite far on Britain’s The X Factor

http://www.drewbates.com/index.html Drew Bates.

Posted by on Jan 13, 2011 in Disability Rights, Movies | 2 comments

2 Comments

  1. Sonja
    Aug 27, 2012

    Haven’t seen him in anything new in a while (I think he’s been concentrating on his music career for the last years), but you could also add Jim Byrnes to that list, he’s a double amputee, his best known roles are probably Joe Dawson in the ‘Highlander’ series and ‘Lifeguard’ Dan in ‘Wiseguy’. He’s been in a lot of other stuff, too, every once in a while I tend to stumble upon him in some old-ish re-run *g*
    http://www.jamestbyrnes.com/index.html

    • RuthMadison
      Aug 27, 2012

      Very cool! I haven’t heard of him.

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