Ruth Madeley Never Thought Acting Was an Option — Now, She’s Playing a Disability Rights Legend in ‘Being Heumann’

News Briefvia IndieWireNovember 2, 2026

Madeley talks to IndieWire about her role as 1970s wheelchair-using activist Judy Heumann in Siân Heder's Oscar-contending biopic.

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