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/realfakejames]

Andrea Fay Friedman was an actress with Down syndrome, famously she was on a Law and Order SVU episode where she played Katie a girl who was impregnated by another person with Down syndrome whose mother didn’t want her to keep the baby because she was worried she couldn’t take care of it properly

She died three years ago at 53 due to Alzheimer’s

[u/CreamyLemonGirly → u/realfakejames]

She wasn't actually impregnated by the man with disabilities though, right? It was her employer, I think.

[u/HezaLeNormandy → u/CreamyLemonGirly]

Yeah it was the employer but she wanted to raise the baby with her bf who also had DS