Sentences with phrase «deaf actress marlee»

By that point, Moore had been studying A.S.L. for a month with deaf actress and teacher Alexandria Wailes, and says she greeted Simmonds by signing, «I'm so excited to meet you,» then finger - spelling her name.

But we're happy to pick up the slack: There are many worthy contenders this year, especially deaf actress and newcomer Millicent Simmonds, who conveyed so much depth without a single word in «Wonderstruck.»

It helps that Dad (Krasinski), Mom (Emily Blunt) and son (Noah Jupe) have all learned sign language in deference to a nonhearing daughter (the glorious, deaf actress Millicent Simmonds of Wonderstruck).

Simmonds is a deaf actress playing a deaf character.

Krasinski smartly sought a deaf actress specifically for this role, telling IGN in a recent interview that «I didn't want a non-deaf actress pretending to be deaf -LSB-...] a deaf actress would help my knowledge and my understanding of the situations tenfold.

Which means the characters played by Krasinski, Emily Blunt, Wonderstruck's extraordinary deaf actress Millicent Simmonds and newcomer Noah Jupe either sign the majority of their dialogue or communicate solely through expression, gesture, worried looks and the occasional slow dance to Neil Young's «Harvest Moon» piped through earbuds.

«It was non-negotiable for me to hire a deaf actress.»

Its use of deaf actress, Millicent Simmonds, is the thing that has got all of the critics excited.

Another outsider with a shot at a nomination is deaf actress Millicent Simmonds, who received praise for her performance in «Wonderstruck» when it premiered at Cannes, but has gotten less attention in the onslaught of the season's awards contenders opening at theaters.

Hiring a deaf actress to play a deaf character is definitely a bold move on Haynes» end, something that most filmmakers would've opted against.

Emily Blunt stars, along with Noah Jupe and Millicent Simmonds (who you may recognize as the fantastic deaf actress from Wonderstruck).

«It was non-negotiable for me to hire a deaf actress, but I didn't know I was going to get so lucky to have not only a deaf actress, but the most beautiful human being who would walk me through the experience and be honest about what it meant to be deaf,» Krasinski told us.

And you cast a deaf actress, Millicent Simmonds, as your lead.

Emily Blunt also stars, along with kids Noah Jupe and Millicent Simmonds (who you may recognize as the deaf actress from Wonderstruck).

Emily Blunt also stars, along with Noah Jupe and Millicent Simmonds (who you may recognize as the deaf actress from Wonderstruck).

Lee Abbott (John Krasinski, who also directs) and his wife Evelyn (Emily Blunt) have a deaf teenage daughter, Regan (played by deaf actress Millicent Simmonds), so they already know American sign language and use it, and a lighting system, to communicate in their silent world.

Not exact matches

Though Bancroft was stellar in The Miracle Worker, winning a Tony award for best actress, it was the child prodigy Patty Duke who mesmerized audiences playing the blind and deaf Keller.

In 1927, a deaf girl named Rose (Millicent Simmonds, who is notably also deaf) runs away from home in pursuit of actress, Lillian Mayhew (Julianne Moore).

The film industry has recently come under fire for representing certain types of individuals on screen but not actually hiring actors who are living those realities, including the recent horror film Hush; Kate Siegel, a non-deaf actress, was cast in the role of Maddie, a deaf writer.

Adapted from the novel by Brian Selznick (who also wrote the book Hugo was based on), the movie takes place on two timelines and involves a deaf girl, a runaway boy, and Moore playing an actress.

Roughly 50 years prior in 1927, defiant adolescent Rose (Millicent Simmonds), deaf since birth, runs away from tyrannical father Dr. Kincaid (James Urbaniak) and snags the ferry to New York, her brother Walter (Cory Michael Smith) sending his sister a postcard informing the child their estranged actress mother Lillian Mayhew (Julianne Moore) has returned to the city from Hollywood to star in a play on Broadway.

The young actress plays the elder daughter Regan, who is deaf (also in real life) and no longer has a functioning hearing aid; something that her father Lee has been desperately working to remedy.

In 1927 — a segment shot and presented like a silent - era movie — a deaf girl, Rose (Millicent Simmonds) goes looking for her movie - actress mother (Julianne Moore) in New York City.

In the deaf community, some have raised questions about Moore, a hearing actress, taking the part of a deaf adult in the film.

Sprawling multi-cultural drama «Babel» stars Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Gael Garcia Bernal and Oscar - nominated actresses Adriana Barraza and Rinko Kikuchi in four narratives that culminate with a stunning shot of Kikuchi's naked deaf teenager cradled her father's arms on a balcony overlooking Tokyo.

«We had the most incredible actress [Millicent Simmonds] who happens to be deaf in real life, which was sort of a non-negotiable thing for me.