Dyslexia Resources

Dyslexia in Movies

- The character Ishaan (Darsheel Safary) in Aamir Khan’s award-winning 2007 Hindi movie, “Taare Zameen Par” is dyslexic.

- The character John in the 2007 movie “Bad” is dyslexic.

- The character Sophie in the 2005 movie “A Mind of Her Own” is dyslexic.

- The character Maggie (Cameron Diaz) in the 2005 American drama movie, “In Her Shoes” is dyslexic.

- The character Captain Rafe McCawley (Ben Affleck) in the 2001 block buster movie, “Pearl Harbour” is dyslexic.

Dyslexia in Television

- The telepathic character Matt Parkman in the extremely popular TV-show “Heroes” (2006 – present) is dyslexic.

- The character Charlie Kelly in the series “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” (2005 – present) is dyslexic.

- The character Max in the TV-show “George Lopez” (2002-2007) is dyslexic.

- Mike (Kirk Douglas) and his grandson Jesse in the Showtime special, “The Secret” (1992) are both dyslexic.

- The character Donna Martin in the TV-series, “Beverly Hills, 90210” (1990-2000) is dyslexic.

- The character Theodore Aloysius “Theo Huxtable” in the classic TV-series “The Cosby Show” (1984-92) is dyslexic.

- The character Brian (River Phoenix) in the Television special, “Backwards: The Riddle of Dyslexia” (1984) is dyslexic.

- The character Joanna in the Television film, “The Princess and the Cabbie” (1981) is dyslexic.

Dyslexia in Comic Books

- The mutant character from Marvel Comics, Taki Matsuya (1988-present) is dyslexic.

- The character Moose Mason in Archie Comics is dyslexic.

Dyslexia in Literature

- The character Hank Zipzer in the eponymous children’s series by Henry Winkler is dyslexic.

- In Rick Riordan’s series of novels, “Percy Jackson & The Olympians”, a large number of the central characters, including the title character, have both dyslexia and ADHD. This is because the half-mortal children of Greek gods, in the series, have difficulty reading/decoding English because their brains are hard-wired to read Ancient Greek.

(Thanks to Wikipedia)