Kenny Easterday(1973-2016)
- Actor
Kenny Easterday was born in 1974 in West Aliquippa, Pennsylvania with
only half a spine, a condition known as sacral agenesis. When he was
six months old both of his underdeveloped legs were amputated and the
bones were used to reconstruct his spine. He gained some notoriety
following the 1988 release of the Canadian movie The Kid Brother
(1988), in which he played a fictionalized version of himself. The film
developed a small "cult" following in Canada, the US and the UK. To
this day, Easterday refuses to use a prosthesis, preferring to walk on
his hands or roll around on a skateboard. He was married at the age of
19 to an able-bodied woman named Sarah and often appears on camera as a
messenger on The Jerry Springer Show.
