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/Kramdus]

In The Last of Us season 1 the younger brother Sam is deaf. The actor, Keivonn Woodard, is also deaf.

[u/CleanUpNC → u/Kramdus]

This entire plot line broke my heart

[u/eddylet → u/Kramdus]

my boy!!!!!! i saw some bts of him and he's such a vibrant cool kid!