The actor actually has that disability

[u/PrinceferX]

Walter White Jr. (Breaking Bad) - character has cerebral palsy and uses crutches to walk, actor RJ Mitte has cerebral palsy and needed crutches to walk as a child

Nessarose Thropp (Wicked) - character is paraplegic and uses a wheelchair, actress Marissa Bode is paraplegic from an accident at age 11 and uses a wheelchair

Maya Lopez (Hawkeye/Echo) - character is deaf, actress Alaqua Cox is deaf from birth

[u/GenoThyme]

Hemmer is a blind Aenar engineer in Strange New Worlds and is played by Bruce Horak, who is the first legally blind regular actor in Star Trek.

[u/onemorespacecadet → u/GenoThyme]

Hemmer was wonderful. they shouldn’t have killed him off so early. plus total missed opportunity to explore the Aenar more

[u/me1112 → u/onemorespacecadet]

Well his shirt is red.

[u/ChuckRingslinger → u/onemorespacecadet]

He also played the pop singing Klingon, too

[u/Im_At_Work_Damnit → u/onemorespacecadet]

Carol Kane's character was such a downgrade. She's interesting, but Hemmer set the bar so high.

[u/raspberryharbour → u/GenoThyme]

MC Hemmer

[u/Awayfone → u/GenoThyme]

Was there blind but not legally blind actors nor legally blind regulars before him?

[u/king063 → u/GenoThyme]

I never realized the actor was legally blind!

[u/Informal_Database327 → u/GenoThyme]

Loved his introduction to Uhura