sharon pierre - louis played emmett's mom in switched at birth.
who plays emmett's mom in switched at birth?
sharon pierre - louis
played by marlee matlin, melody bledsoe is the mother of emmett bledsoe and the best friend of regina vasquez. she is divorced from her ex-husband, cameron, her polar opposite when it comes to parenting. like her son, melody is deaf although she can speak on some occasions due to being forced to attend speech therapy when she was young. she is overprotective and judgmental. melody is upset when emmett initially tells her that he wants to date bay, believing that hearing and deaf relationships cannot succeed. this leads her to humiliate bay at a dinner night with emmett, bay, and regina. she gets into a dispute with regina, but they reconcile and melody eventually opens up to bay when she realizes that bay had good intentions. she also dates daphne's boss jeff but he breaks it off after realizing he loves daphne.
list of switched at birth characters
ted was the only character that lowell auditioned for. he has also claimed it was the only role on the show he wanted. lowell recalled reading the scripts for the pilot episode and really relating to the character. he understood and sympathised with the character. peter paige who plays emmett honeycutt on the show originally auditioned for the role of ted. casting directors were impressed with paige's performance and invited him for a callback as ted. but emmett had also gained paige's attention and he asked linda lowy if he could read for the part. she told paige to choose which role he wanted. but "queer as folk" creators daniel lipman and ron cowen then watched him read for both ted and emmett. paige decided he felt more comfortable playing emmett. the show's production chose lowell, who was different than their original description. they had not decided on what they wanted ted to be until they met lowell.
ted schmidt