[Opinion] Rose Ayling-Ellis makes stance clear on non-deaf actors playing deaf roles controversy: 'Loses all that!'

Rose Ayling-Ellis makes stance clear on non-deaf actors playing deaf roles controversy: 'Loses all that!'

Rose Ayling-Ellis has entered the debate on representation in the entertainment industry by sharing her opinion on non-deaf actors playing deaf roles. The 30-year-old deaf actress was speaking to GB News and other press as she prepares for the launch of her new ITV crime drama Code of Silence, where she stars as a civilian swept up in a high-stakes police investigation.In the show, Ayling-Ellis plays Allison Brooks – a deaf canteen worker in a C…

Code of Silence: Rose Ayling-Ellis talks proving herself in ITV lipreading thriller

Code of Silence is the upcoming lipreading drama on ITV, starring Rose Ayling-Ellis, which is already on everybody’s lips. Ahead of its premiere, Liam O’Dell spoke to the deaf actor, writer Catherine Moulton and co-stars Charlotte Ritchie and Adrian Buchan about the thriller which ends up getting too close for comfort.