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Millicent Simmonds (born March 6, 2003) is a deaf American actress who starred in the 2018 horror film A Quiet Place and its 2020 sequel A Quiet Place Part II. Her breakout role was in the 2017 drama film Wonderstruck .
Fellow honoree Simmonds also spoke on the importance of Hollywood recognizing progressive change recently. The “A Quiet Place” actor , who is deaf, told Variety , “I’ve already seen such a ...
Both the character of Regan Abbott and Millicent Simmonds, the actress who played her in the films, are deaf, but they're the ones doing the saving in the franchise and this house.
Among those cast was Millicent Simmonds, a deaf actor from Utah. [12] Haynes said they wanted to cast a deaf actor since deafness was integral to the two stories and the driving theme in the film. He instructed his casting director Laura Rosenthal to seek out deaf children around the country and if they could not find someone, they would cast a ...
[12] [10] The idea for sign language came about when, prior to filming, deaf actress Simmonds showed Krasinski the American Sign Language (ASL) translation for a scene's dialogue, and he found her gestures to be "so much more cinematic than saying the words would've been". [14] Blunt contributed to the pre-production stage of the film.
I sat down with Levi Holloway to talk about the genesis of the show, working with deaf actors like A Quiet Place’s Millicent Simmonds, his Chicago-based theater company Neverbird, and what ...
Serving as a showcase for deaf actress Millicent Simmonds and filled with monsters both human and extraterrestrial, the film ratchets up the tension, delivers plenty of jump scares and expands the ...
The hashtag repeatedly became a viral phenomenon with the visibility of deaf roles such as Nyle DiMarco's participation in the reality television series America's Next Top Model and Dancing with the Stars, deaf actress Millicent Simmonds in the horror film A Quiet Place, deaf casting and production in the television series This Close, and Deaf West Theatre's revival of the play Spring ...