: Born into a poor working-class family in Dublin, Brown was one of 23 children (13 of whom survived infancy). For the first ten years of his life, doctors dismissed him as intellectually disabled.
: At age five, he famously snatched a piece of chalk from his sister using his left foot to make a mark on the floor. With his mother's unwavering support, he eventually learned to write the word "MOTHER".
Directed by Jim Sheridan, the film My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown is renowned for its raw, unsentimental portrayal of disability. My Left Foot (1989)
