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Rhiannon May, who plays Cara Connelly in Silent Witness, says deafness won’t hold her back

The character returns in series 25.

Rhiannon said about her role as Cara: “It’s exciting that the BBC and Silent Witness want to show a wonderful deaf character. However, over the course of the series, Jack faced a life changing problem… The character was forced to confront the fact that Cara Connelly may be his own daughter, rather than his niece. At that time, I didn’t find it very easy to ask people to face me so I could lipread, or speak clearer or repeat things and I wasn’t very confident in myself or my deafness.

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