Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVThe Ruderman Family Foundation selected five more recipients of its Seal of Authentic Representation: Fox’s “9-1-1,” Apple TV Plus’s “CODA,” Freeform’s “Everything’s Gonna Be Okay” and Netflix’s “Never Have I Ever” and “The One.”Marlee Matlin, who is one of the stars of “CODA,” has also received the Ruderman Family Foundation’s Morton E.
Ruderman Award in Inclusion for her lifelong activism for people with disabilities.“Full inclusiveness and authentic representation is so important to me,” Matlin said in a statement. “My first theatrical film, ‘Children of a Lesser God,’ was the first to star a Deaf actor in a leading role.
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