Is Kate Siegel Deaf? She's Appearing on 'The Haunting of Bly Manor'

Is Kate Siegel deaf? The scream queen adopted up her role on 'The Haunting of Hill House' through appearing in an episode of 'The Haunting of Bly Manor.'

Now that spooky season is in complete swing, it is only suitable that Netflix would ship horror content that could creep out even probably the most ardent fanatics of the genre. 

In October of 2018, The Haunting of Hill House became a breakout hit for the streaming provider. The sequence centered around the Crain family, who transfer into the Hill House with the hopes of renovating it. They quickly be told that there are larger forces to hand who need them gone. 

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The second installment in The Haunting anthology series is The Haunting of Bly Manor, and lots of of the actors from the first edition are back as new characters. Based loosely on the 1898 Henry James novella The Turn of the Screw, Bly Manor focuses on a circle of relatives in London in 1987, whose kids cause rather a stir with their caretakers. 

Kate Siegel — who starred as child psychologist Theodora Crain in Hill House — is back for one episode of Bly Manor.

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Is Kate Siegel deaf? The actress' has played a deaf character on display ahead of. Continue reading for further main points on her profession, and to find out extra about her key function on Bly Manor. 

Is Kate Siegel deaf?

The 38-year-old actress is a professional in terms of the horror genre, and she's identified for operating alongside her husband, director Mike Flanagan, in his horrifying films (he also created The Haunting collection). 

Aside from The Haunting anthology, Kate has significantly appeared in The Curse of the Black Dahlia (2007), Oculus (2013), Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016), and the Demon Legacy franchise. 

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In 2016, Kate and her husband co-wrote the screenplay for Hush, a horror movie a few deaf lady named Maddie Young who will get centered by way of a killer inside of her own home. Kate performed Maddie, regardless that she herself is now not deaf. 

The actress discussed taking part in the character in a 2016 interview with Movable Fest.  When requested if she knew signal language before taking on the position, Kate said that she did not. 

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"No, I worked with an incredible coach who drilled me night and day on the signs and also helped me really understand the experience of not experiencing the wealth of someone who can hear. That was such a gift as to what kind of person Maddie is and the way she interacts with the world..." she defined. "I had been prepping her for nine months by the time we showed up."

Kate Siegel seems in the 8th episode of 'The Haunting of Bly Manor.'

Though Kate acted in all 10 episodes of The Haunting of Hill House, she is in only one episode of The Haunting of Bly Manor. She performs Viola in "The Romance of Old Clothes," the eldest daughter of a 17th century man named Mr. Willoughby. After he dies, she and her sister, Perdita, are left in price of their property, Bly Manor, till they may be able to get married.  

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Nearly all the episode takes place in the seventeenth century, and it provides a backstory into the haunted nature of the house. 

All nine episodes of The Haunting of Bly Manor are to be had to stream on Netflix now. Hush is also to be had on Netflix. 

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