actor. “To me, it was just extraordinary.” Sullivan begged her parents to let her audition for a play, too. If someone she knew could do it, why couldn’t she?“In my delusional child mind, immediately all of the things — movies, television, Broadway — it all became possible,” Sullivan told The Post. “Even though at the time, I had no one to point to that looked like me.”There still aren’t too many people on film, TV or the stage who look like Sullivan.
She is a bilateral above-the-knee amputee and walks on prosthetic limbs — shapely, sleek legs in shiny black that make her look a bit like a bionic superwoman.
The fashion fan loves to accentuate them with short skirts or dresses with high slits. And the ebullient redhead, who was born without the lower halves of her legs, has never let her disability stop her.She booked her first audition at 12, as a “townsperson” in a local children’s production of “Sleeping Beauty,” studied theater at Webster University, and starred as Hedda Gabbler in Chicago.
Sullivan took up running in her 20s — and competed in the London Paralympic Games in 2012, where she set an American Record and finished sixth in the world.
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