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Switched at Birth

2011

The story of two teenage girls who discover they were accidentally switched as newborns in the hospital. Bay Kennish grew up in a wealthy family with two parents and a brother, while Daphne Vasquez, who lost her hearing at an early age due to a case of meningitis, grew up with a single mother in a working-class neighborhood. Things come to a dramatic head when both families meet and struggle to learn how to live together for the sake of the girls.

B.K. Cannon

Cast · Known for Road House, Switched at Birth

Barbara-Kimberly Cannon is an American actress known for Switched at Birth and Why Women Kill. She is from Kailua, Honolulu, Hawaii.

Charlene Amoia

Cast · Known for The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, How I Met Your Mother

Charlene Amoia is an American actress best known for her role as Wendy the waitress in the TV sitcom How I Met Your Mother. Her other television credits include Glee, Switched at Birth, Days of Our Lives and her film credits include American Reunion (2012) from the American Pie series. Raised in Buffalo, New York, she got her start in modeling before making the transition to acting in 2001 with a role on the soap opera, Port Charles. That part on the daytime drama led to guest appearances in several other series, including Joey, Girlfriends, 90210, and as Anna Schick in The Young & The Restless.

Maiara Walsh

Cast · Known for Switched at Birth

Maiara Walsh is a Brazilian-American actress and singer. She played Ana Solis on the sixth season of the ABC show Desperate Housewives, Meena Paroom on the Disney Channel sitcom Cory in the House and Simone Sinclair on the Freeform series Switched at Birth.

Cassi Thomson

Cast · Known for Switched at Birth

Cassi Nicole Thomson is an Australian-born American actress and singer. She is known for her recurring role as Cara Lynn Walker in the television series Big Love and for her role as Nikki Papagus on the series Switched at Birth. She has also guest starred in several television series, such as Without a Trace, ER, House M.D., and CSI: Miami.

Austin Cauldwell

Austin Cauldwell is an American stage, film and television actor, best known for playing recurring character Josh Padden in the television series "Switched at Birth".

Adam Hagenbuch

Adam Hagenbuch is an actor and writer, known for The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012), Fuller House (2016) and Switched at Birth (2011).

Stephen Ford

Stephen Ford is a Swedish-American actor and director. After acting in shows like Teen Wolf, Switched At Birth and Private Practice he began his own production company, Ascender Productions. His career started at a young age when he began doing commercials and creating short films with his neighborhood friends. As his family was in the military, he moved around the United States a lot as a kid, growing up in Alaska, Alabama, California, Kansas and Florida. After relocating to Los Angeles as a teenager, he skipped around various Disney, Fox and Nickelodeon sitcoms. This led him to starring in the American adaptation of Kamen Rider Ryuki as the lead of CW's Kamen Rider Dragon Knight. Since then he has appeared in various indie films and hit television shows like ABC's Private Practice and Desperate Housewives, MTV's Teen Wolf and Freeform's Switch At Birth. He took a break from acting to focus on directing in 2014 and he partnered with the Warner Brothers YouTube company Machinima as their lead narrative show runner to create original narrative content based on video game properties like Ubisoft's Rainbow Six: Siege and The Division. When Machinima folded up shop, he created Ascender Productions. A small production company with a focus on creating high quality digital and narrative content.

Cooper Barnes

Cast · Known for Henry Danger

Cooper Barnes is known for playing Captain Man on Nickelodeon's Henry Danger and Danger Force. He also guest-starred on numerous other series such as "Jessie," "Kickin' It," "Cold Case," "Suburgatory," and "Switched at Birth." Born in Sheffield, England, United Kingdom, Cooper was raised in a small suburb in Michigan, United States. He graduated from Northville High School in 1997. He began his career as an actor in 2001 when he appeared in a film called "Digging with Earnest." He is the founding member of the sketch comedy troupe Frog Island, a recurring sketch player on "Conan," and has starred as Deputy Sam Byron in "Defending Santa." He voiced two characters in "Escape from Planet Earth." He has been married to Liz Stewart since October 3, 2015.

Sean Berdy

Cast · Known for Switched at Birth

Sean Lance Berdy is a deaf American actor and comedian. He has appeared in the film sequel The Sandlot 2 and currently stars in Switched at Birth, playing the role of Emmett Bledsoe. He is one of the two main deaf characters in the show. He was nominated for TV Breakout Star for the Teen Choice Awards 2011.

Charles Michael Davis

Cast · Known for The Originals, Younger, NCIS: New Orleans

Charles Michael Davis is of African American and Filipino descent. His father is from Kentucky and his mother is from Manila. Davis got his start with Jake Lang at Wings Model Management in Cincinnati, Ohio and later attended the talent agency Actors, Models, and Talent for Christ (AMTC) event. Davis has done print modeling and commercials for Nike and Footlocker. Davis has had guest and recurring appearances in several notable television shows, including That's So Raven, Switched at Birth, and Grey's Anatomy. In 2011, he landed a recurring role on (BET) The Game as Kwan Kirkland, a quarterback for the San Diego Sabers. In February 2013, it was announced that Davis was cast in a lead role on (CW) new show The Originals, a spinoff of The Vampire Diaries, centered on the Original Family as they move to New Orleans, where Davis' character (a vampire named Marcel) currently rules.

Lea Thompson

Cast · Known for Back to the Future Part II, Back to the Future, Switched at Birth

Lea Katherine Thompson (born May 31, 1961) is an American actress, singer, dancer, and director. She is best known for her roles as Lorraine Baines-McFly in the Back to the Future film trilogy (1985–1990), Beverly Switzler in Howard the Duck (1986), and Amanda Jones in Some Kind of Wonderful (1987). Other films for which she is known include All the Right Moves (1983), Red Dawn (1984), Dennis the Menace (1993), and The Beverly Hillbillies (1993). In the 1990s, she played the title character in the sitcom Caroline in the City. From 2011 to 2017, she co-starred as Kathryn Kennish in the ABC Family-turned-Freeform series Switched at Birth.

RJ Mitte

Cast · Known for Breaking Bad

Roy Frank "RJ" Mitte III (August 21, 1992 – October 12, 2026) was an American actor and producer. Born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi, Mitte was diagnosed with cerebral palsy when he was three. He moved to Hollywood, Los Angeles, in 2006, and worked with a personal talent manager to find acting opportunities where his disability could educate viewers. After playing minor roles in sitcoms, he was cast in his breakthrough role as Walter White Jr. on the AMC neo-Western crime drama television series Breaking Bad (2008–2013). Mitte starred in the ABC Family teen and family drama television series Switched at Birth (2014) and the Netflix live-action/adult animated mixed media superhero television series The Guardians of Justice (2022). He appeared in films like Who's Driving Doug (2016), the thriller-drama Time Share (2018), the independent comedy Standing Up for Sunny (2019), the thriller The Oak Room (2020), and the coming-of-age drama Triumph (2021), the lattermost of which he executive produced. He advocated for cerebral palsy and other disabilities. He was a Screen Actors Guild spokesman for actors with disabilities, and a celebrity ambassador for United Cerebral Palsy. He received the SAG-AFTRA Harold Russell Award in 2013. Mitte passed away on October 12th, 2026, in Brownsville, TX, USA.

Gabriel Burrafato

Two-Time Broadway Award Winning Actor/Singer Gabriel Burrafato, has performed starring roles on Broadway, Las Vegas and International stages around the world. Known as the "Trilingual, Triple Threat", this powerhouse of a performers has appeared as a recurring guest star in FX's hit show "You're The Worst". Other television appearances include ABC's "Switched at Birth", CBS's "Criminal Minds", Nickelodeon and many other principle leading roles in feature films and television. His televised PBS concert "Live from the Venetian in Las Vegas", has aired in over 350 PBS stations across North America. Gabriel has had the honor of working closely with the best in the industry, including 2-time Academy Award winning composer A.R. Rahman, 21-time Tony Award winning Broadway director Harold Prince, and the legendary Sir Andrew Lloyd. Gabriel made his Broadway debut in Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber's Bombay Dreams. He also starred as Lancelot in the Broadway National Tour of Camelot and Magaldi in the Broadway National tour of Evita (Harold Prince Revival). Gabriel had the distinguished honor of originating the role of the elf archer Legolas in the $30 Million Dollar, world premier production of The Lord of The Rings, directed by Tony award winning director Matthew Warchus. Other roles include Dean Martin in the original Las Vegas Production of "Vegas! The Show", at Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino, and Lun Tha in the world renowned Stratford Festivals production of The King and I. Gabriel has studied voice at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto and began his career as an Apprentice Actor at the prestigious Shaw Festival of Canada. Off stage, Gabriel is the Creative Director and Photographer of his wife's very successful lifestyle blog, www.MamaInHeels.com. But his most exciting role of all is being a dad to his twin boys :-) www.GabrielBurrafato.com

Sandra Purpuro

Sandra Purpuro is an American film and television actress. Her most prominent roles are those of Katherine McClain on Oz and Liz Labella on DiResta. She has also appeared in Lethal Weapon, Days of Our Lives, The Young and the Restless and Switched at Birth.

Katie Leclerc

Cast · Known for Switched at Birth

Katie Lynn Leclerc (born November 6, 1986) is an American actress and producer. Her career began in 2005, when she made her first appearance on "Veronica Mars" (2004). This jump-started a series of minor roles and small appearances in movies and TV shows. She got her breakout role starring as a deaf teenager, Daphne Vasquez, who finds out she was taken home by the wrong family in ABC Family's "Switched at Birth" (2011).

Michele Weaver

Michele Weaver works in all four categories of theater, commercial, film and television. She first got noticed starring in the two short films Diana Leigh (1960s musical) and Daughters of Eve ( Civil War Drama, AFI). She has played Dorothy Dandridge in The Nicolas Brothers Tribute and Marylin "A New Musical' at the 1400 seat Alex Theater as well. Most recently she is starring in two new films: Illicit ,next to David Ramsey and Vivica A. Fox as well as 2 Lava 2 Lantuala, where she plays Steve Guttenberg's step daughter, Raya, in the sequel of the SyFy Channel Franchise Lavalantula. Other credits include Switched at Birth on Abc Family, Cooper Barrett's Guide to Surviving Life on Fox, Short-Com Comedy Hour with Charlie Murphy, and Sistercode starring Amber Rose, Drew Sidora and Eva Marcille.

Joanna Kerns

Joanna Crussie DeVarona Kerns is an American actress and director best known for her role as Maggie Seaver on the family situation comedy Growing Pains from 1985 to 1992. After Growing Pains ended, she turned to directing. She directed one episode of Growing Pains while starring on the show and got hooked. She has also directed episodes of television shows including Dawson's Creek, Titans, Scrubs, Private Practice, Psych, Felicity, Grey's Anatomy, Privileged, ER, Ghost Whisperer, Army Wives, Pretty Little Liars, Switched at Birth, The Goldbergs, This Is Us, and Fuller House. She has also made notable appearances in feature films, including A*P*E, Girl, Interrupted, and the 2007 comedy Knocked Up. She has also starred in a number of TV movies. In 1974, Kerns met a commercial producer, Richard Kerns, on the set of a commercial, and they married two years later. Their marriage lasted nine years and the couple had a daughter, Ashley Cooper. In 1994, she married Marc Appleton, a prominent Los Angeles architect. In August 2019, she filed for divorce from Appleton. She previously dated comedian and actor Freddie Prinze a short time before he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The two had worked together on the 1976 TV movie, The Million Dollar Rip-Off.

Ivonne Coll

Cast · Known for Jane the Virgin, Switched at Birth

Ivonne Coll is a Puerto Rican stage, film and television actress and former Miss Universe Pageant, best known for playing series regular Alba Gloriana Villanueva on the comedy-drama series "Jane the Virgin", as well as recurring character Adrianna Vasquez on the television series "Switched at Birth".

Paul Raci

Actor Paul Raci is most commonly known for his roles in television dramas. Raci's acting career began with roles in action films like "Dragon: the Bruce Lee Story" (1993) and "The Glimmer Man" (1996). He worked in television in his early acting career as well, including parts on "L.A. Law" (NBC, 1986-1994) and "The Marshal" (ABC, 1994-96). In the nineties and the early 2000s, Raci worked on predominantly television shows such as "The Visitor" (1997-98), "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" (CBS, 2000-2015) and "The Handler" (CBS, 2003-04). More recently, he tackled roles on "Las Vegas" (2003-08), "Lucky Louie" (HBO, 2005-07) and "Rizzoli & Isles" (TNT, 2009-16). Raci most recently acted on "Switched at Birth" (Freeform, 2010-). He was nominated for a 1985 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actor in a Principal Role in a Play for "Children of a Lesser God" at the Immediate Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois.

Alex Wyse

Alex Wyse is an American stage and screen actor, writer, director, and producer. He is best known for playing Kyle in Marvel's Iron Fist, Saul Feinberg in The Bold and the Beautiful, Max Weinbaum in the Broadway production of Good Night, Oscar, Georg Zirschnitz in the 2015 Deaf West Broadway revival of Spring Awakening, and co-writing/directing the feature film Summoning Sylvia. Wyse grew up in Cleveland, Ohio where he graduated from Beachwood High School. He later graduated from Boston University with a degree in theatre On television, Wyse has appeared in multiple roles since 2010 including Elsbeth, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, The Other Two, Bored to Death, Switched at Birth, The Bold and the Beautiful, Marvel's Iron Fist, NCIS: Los Angeles, and Masters of Sex On film, he appeared opposite America Ferrera in X/Y. On Broadway, he made his debut in Lysistrata Jones, which ran at the Walter Kerr Theatre from 2011 to 2012. He then played schoolboy Georg Zirschnitz in the Deaf West Theatre's production of Spring Awakening, and in 2018, he joined the musical Waitress, as Ogie. In 2023, Wyse played Max Weinbaum in the Tony-winning Broadway production of Doug Wright's Good Night, Oscar at the Belasco Theatre opposite Sean Hayes. He also co-produced the Broadway transfer of Heidi Schreck's play What the Constitution Means to Me, which opened at the Helen Hayes Theater on March 31, 2019. He received nominations for a Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Award for acting as part of the producing team. Off-Broadway, he has been seen in Lysistrata Jones, Triassic Parq, Bare, and Ride the Cyclone. In 2013–2014, he toured with the national company of Wicked, playing the role of Boq. In 2015, he appeared opposite Evan Rachel Wood and Rumer Willis in For the Record in Los Angeles. He frequently collaborates with Wesley Taylor, the two having co-written and directed their critically acclaimed feature film Summoning Sylvia released in 2023. They also co-created, wrote, directed, edited, and starred in the digital series Indoor Boys, which was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award and thirty-three Indie Series Awards, winning twelve, including Best Comedy, Comedy Writing, Comedy Directing, and Best Lead Actor for Wyse, before being acquired by Here TV. In 2024, Wyse and Taylor co-directed Cellino v. Barnes, currently playing off-Broadway at Asylum NYC. Wyse's other work includes co-writing the book, lyrics, and music for A Commercial Jingle For Regina Comet with Ben Fankhauser, which played off-Broadway at the Daryl Roth Theater in 2021. And in December of 2023, Wyse starred in the solo musical “Picking Up Speed” off-Broadway at Royal Family Productions, for which he wrote the book, music, and lyrics.

Daniel Durant

Cast · Known for CODA, Switched at Birth

Daniel Durant is an American stage and screen actor. He is a member of the Deaf community. He is best known for portraying Moritz Stiefel in the 2015 Broadway Revival of Spring Awakening, and for his recurring role as Matthew on the television series Switched at Birth.

Stephanie Nogueras

Cast · Known for Switched at Birth

Stephanie Nogueras ​is an actress and model of Puerto-Rican decent. She left her home on a New Jersey farm right out of college for a life in the big City of Hollywood. Within six months, Stephanie landed a recurring role on ABC Family's Switched at Birth as "Natalie Pierce". *The Season 4 finale episode #4010 was inspired by an actual event in Stephanie's life. Stephanie concurrently booked a "Guest Star" role as "Elly" on NBC's Fantasy Cop Show Grimm. Nogueras' role as a Deaf Mermaid earned that episode its highest rating for the Season.

Jill D'Agnenica

Jill D’Agnenica is a visual artist, filmmaker, and mother of two girls. She works as a film and television editor and director. Her feature directorial debut, Life Inside Out, won Best Premiere at the Heartland Film Festival in 2013 and subsequently screened at 20 North American festivals, receiving 15 audience and jury awards. She recently directed a series of PSAs for Los Angeles Regional Food Bank, through the Los Angeles Women in Film PSA production program. She recently directed her first episode of television on Freeform’s Switched at Birth. Jill holds a BA in history from UCLA and an MFA in Visual Art from Claremont Graduate University.