Jade C. Bell is a
Canadian
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of ...
actor who appeared in the first season of the television show ''
Dark Angel'' as Sebastian, a mute
quadriplegic genius who communicates via a machine which verbalizes his thoughts. Bell is blind, mute and immobile in real life, due to an injection of a
speedball,
which deprived his brain of oxygen for 15 minutes in August 1997 at the age of 23. In 2010 he featured as the central character in the documentary film ''Harpooned Soul: The Jade Bell Story''. The film was nominated for 'Best Film' and 'Best Director' (Dean Easterbrook) at the
Documentary Edge Festival
The Doc Edge, formerly DOCNZ International Documentary Film Festival or simply DOCNZ Film Festival, and then Documentary Edge Festival, is New Zealand's Academy Award-qualifying international documentary film festival, run annually by the Document ...
.
Bell tours schools, theatres and prisons, encouraging people to not take drugs. He has appeared before over 200,000 young people in Canada.
[ Bell also writes music, and released the album ''War Stained Skin'' in 2014.]
References
External links
Official website
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Canadian male television actors
People with tetraplegia
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