Actors who played characters with special needs In the 2010 film ‘My Name Is Khan’, Shah Rukh Khan took on the role of Rizwan Khan, an autistic man suffering from Asperger’s syndrome.

Disabled characters should be played by disabled actors | Opinion "Music," about a girl with autism, is an example of what disability advocates call "cripface": when a non-disabled actor plays a ...

Angelina Jolie, Ben Affleck, And 17 Other White Actors Who Have Played Non-White Characters. BuzzFeed. Sun, ... The 2017 film features a character named Edwina, played by Kirsten Dunst.

Can You Name These Actors Based On Characters They've Played? We've put together a quiz challenging you to name the actor based on a list of characters he or she has played.

Judah Ben-Hur played by Charlton Heston > Movie: Ben-Hur (1959) The 1959 version of “Ben-Hur” won a record 11 Oscars and remains one of the greatest movies of all time.

While whitewashing — or casting a white actor to play a non-white person or fictional character, whether by making the character white or having the actor's appearance altered — seems to be ...