Troy Kotsur Becomes First Deaf Actor to Win a SAG Award

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“CODA” star Troy Kotsur is a SAG Award winner! The 53-year-old actor gained an award for excellent efficiency by a male actor in a supporting position. His award is a historic first as a deaf actor to be nominated and win in a person class.

Kotsur has been a member of the Display Actors Guild since 2001. The “CODA” star has been working in leisure for 20 years as each an actor in initiatives corresponding to “Sue Thomas: F.B.EYE.,” “Prison Minds,” and “The Mandalorian,” and director for his 2013 film “No Strange Hero: The SuperDeafy Film.” He is additionally labored on Broadway, starring within the Tony Award-winning “Massive River.”

Throughout Kotsur’s SAG Awards’s acceptance speech, he opened up about his journey as an actor; thanked his costars, together with Emilia Jones, Marlee Matlin, Eugenio Derbez, and Daniel Durant, in addition to his spouse, Deanne Bray, and daughter, Kyra; and recommended Apple TV+ for its assist and entry corresponding to “closed captioning, offering ASL deciphering providers, and believing in us deaf actors, and casting us authentically as actors who occur to be deaf.” See his full speech under.