‘CODA’ Star Troy Kotsur won the best supporting trophy at the Film Independent Spirit Award on March 6, 2022. Image: Variety That makes him the first deaf actor to win the award. Kotsur plays deaf fisherman Frank Rossi in the film CODA.  In accepting the honor, Kotsur thanked the film’s producers and applauded them for their vision. He went on to thank his wife and daughter. Backstage he said: “You know how long it took me to get here? And it takes doctors a long time to get

Deaf actress Millicent Simmonds was born on this date (March 6) in 2003. Millie has starred in several major films including Wonderstruck, where she plays a 12-year-old deaf girl living in the 1927 New Jersey who runs away from home, and A Quiet Place  and A Quiet Place II  which are about a family that must stay silent to survive. She made her Broadway debut in 2023 with the play Grey House .   She grew up in Utah where, at the age of two months, an accidental medication ov