Deanne Bray: I think at the end of the day, if you have the talent, and you stand above the rest, there is nothing in the world that can stop you.
Deanne Bray: (About Sue Thomas) Sue is like a sister to me! She has been instrumental in my life and has taught me a great deal - I can't even start to put all of those learning's into words. She taught me about the challenges that we will face throughout our lives, and how we will have to keep proving ourselves, time and again to be accepted in the hearing world.
Deanne Bray: Most of my friends from the deaf community, along with my hearing family, shaped me into who I am today.
Sue Thomas: (About choosing Deanne Bray to play her character in Sue Thomas F.B.eye) I saw it in her eyes -- which conveyed a loneliness and separation but held the inner strength. I told the producers to look no further -- they had found the actress.
Deanne Bray: My parents encouraged me from a very early age to blend with 'hearing people'. They encouraged me a great deal and taught me to face the challenges. I learnt young and have incorporated a lot of my childhood learnings into my lifestyle. Even if people accept you, living every single day as a hearing impaired is a challenge - a challenge that I have now grown to love.
In the Summer of 2006 a DVD about pregnancy was released and was produced by Deanne Bray and Missy Keast. It was in ASL.
Deanne Bray was in charge of the sign language in the Sue Thomas F.B.eye episode To Grandmother's House We Go.
Deanne Bray is approximately 5 feet 7 and a half inches tall.
She earned a B.A. degree in Biology at California State University at Northridge.
Deanne Bray communicates both through spoken English and also American Sign Language.
Her role models include Phyllis Frelich, Linda Bove, Freda Norman, and Sue Thomas, who her show is based on.
She was born with a hearing impairment possibly as a result of German Measles.
Her husband Troy Kotsur is also deaf.
She wears a hearing aid in her left ear.
Deanne, and her husband Troy Kotsur, welcomed there first child, Kyra Bray-Kotsur, to the world on September 8th 2005.
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