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Georgina Chapman (born 1976), English fashion designer and actress. [34] Blake Charlton (born 1979), American science fiction author and cardiologist. [35] Cher (born 1946), American singer and actress. [17] Amy Childs (born 1990), English model and television personality. [36] Sir Timothy Clifford (born 1946), British art historian. [37]
Melissa Johns is a British actress and disability activist. She is known for playing Sadie in The Interceptor, Imogen Pascoe on Coronation Street, Hannah Taylor in Life, and Miss Scott in Grantchester. [1] Johns is an ambassador for disability in the arts and advocates for better representation of disability on- and off-screen and stage. [2] [3]
Frieda Inescort (born Frieda Wrightman, 29 June 1901 – 26 February 1976) was a Scottish actress best known for creating the role of Sorel Bliss in Noël Coward's play Hay Fever on Broadway. [1] She also played the shingled lady in John Galsworthy 's 1927 Broadway production Escape [ 2 ] and Caroline Bingley in the 1940 film of Jane Austen 's ...
Actress who played the heroine in the 3-D film House of Wax. Kirk had polio as a child. [10] Hildegard Knef: 1925–2002 After a bout with polio in 1932, Knef went on to become an actress, singer and writer. [11] Ida Lupino: 1918–1995 Film actress and director, Lupino caught polio in June 1934 and was affected for only a few days. [12] Peg ...
LGBTQ actors with disabilities (24 P) A. Actors with albinism (7 P) Amputee actors (22 P) Autistic actors (74 P) B. Blind actors (18 P) D. Deaf actors (3 C)
Shirley Patterson, sometimes billed as Shawn Smith, (December 26, 1922 – April 4, 1995) was a Canadian-born B-movie actress of the 1940s and 1950s. Early years [ edit ]
Tompkins was born in Chicago, Illinois on November 6, 1940. [2] [3] Her parents were divorced when she reached the age of five and she took the surname of her stepfather. Her family performed in plays and vaudeville, and she had an early goal to be a Hollywood actress. At the age of twelve she was mauled by a dog which left her very self-conscious.
Between 1937 and 1940 she appeared in supporting roles in several movies. Her big break came the 1940 film, Primrose Path , as Ginger Rogers 's younger sister, for which she won a Critics Award. The same year she became the first child star to be summoned from Hollywood in order to appear in the leading role in a Broadway musical, Panama Hattie ...