is tj thyne actually paralyzed?
A: T.J. Thyne, who plays Jack Hodgins on the Fox drama, does not need a wheelchair in his off-camera life. He's acting. ... Daryl Chill Mitchell, who plays the wheelchair-using Patton Plame on CBS's “NCIS: New Orleans,” was in a 2001 motorcycle accident that left him paralyzed from the waist down.