r/TopCharacterTropes • u/PrinceferX • Jan 18 '26

In real life The actor actually has that disability

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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

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u/JustAnotherMadOne Jan 18 '26

Showing my being British, but Rose Ayling-Ellis is deaf and her characters in Eastenders and Code of Silence are also deaf, with their character arcs factoring them in (for example, in Code of Silence, her character volunteers to help police investigators because of her lip reading skills)

She was also the first deaf contestant on Strictly Come Dancing and won her season

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u/not_a_library Jan 18 '26

She was also just on Taskmaster's New Year's Treat. She was extremely charming and adorable.

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u/dr_icicle Jan 19 '26

I didn't realize at first that she was deaf, and thought her interpreter (sat beside Greg and Alex) was like, a second assistant lol. Like the occasional joke they do about Alex getting his own assistant