Which actors are hearing impaired?

Answer 1

We recently lost one of the best ever. Phyllis Frelich, the Tony Award-winning deaf actress who starred in the Broadway version of "Children of a Lesser God," died on April 10, 2014. She was 70.

Frelich, died at her home in Temple City, California of a rare degenerative neurological disease.

"She was extraordinary, the finest sign language actress there ever was," said her husband Robert Steinberg. "We were married for 46 years. I would have been happy with 46 more."

Frelich became interested in acting at Gallaudet, the unversity she attended in Washington D.C. She joined the National Theatre of the Deaf, which is where she met Steinberg, who worked as a scenic and lighting designer on several plays by Mark Medoff.

"Children of a Lesser God," which Medoff wrote out of admiration for Frelich's relationship with Steinberg, is the story of a deaf woman and her romance with a teacher of the deaf. The play opened on Broadway in 1980 and received three Tony Awards -- Best Play, Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play (Frelich) and Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play (John Rubenstein).

In the 1986 film version of the play, Frelich's character, Sarah Norman, was played by deaf actress Marlee Matlin, who earned an Academy Award for Best Actress.

Answer 2

Lou ferrigno.

Hard of hearing childhood.