By BA Haller© Media dis&dat
Sorry for the delay in reporting this. I just caught the new season of "Heroes" for the first time last night.
Deaf actress Deanne Bray (pictured) has joined the cast as Emma Coolidge. Her ability is seeing sound as color. Here's what the Heroes Wiki says about it: "Emma has the ability to see sound waves as beautiful lights. Her power can also shoot out the sound waves as a concussive blast if heavily pressured enough. She demonstrates this by playing her cello so furiously that a blast of 'sound' leaves a scar on the wall."
In a wonderful bit of casting genius, her mother is played by Louise Fletcher, who won the Academy Award for playing evil Nurse Ratched in 1975's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." But more importantly Fletcher is a CODA, and has the distinction being the first person? to use sign language at the Oscars when she thanked her parents in sign language.
In the Oct. 12 episode of "Heroes," Fletcher and Bray had a lively conversation in sign language.
Bray was the lead in the show "Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye," and has appeared in "Strong Medicine," "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," "Rescue Me," "Law & Order:Criminal Intent," "Curb Your Enthusiasm," and "The L Word."
