Troy Kotsur is operating on one hour of sleep, but he’s still smiling ear to ear.
It’s Monday, the morning after he became the second deaf performer in Academy history to win an acting award at the Oscars.
His turn as the lusty fisherman Frank Rossi in “Coda” became a favorite of this awards season, and so did appearances from the affable 53-year-old performer, a working Los Angeles stage actor who until recently was not a known entity in Hollywood.As Kotsur thinks about what his Oscar win will mean to him, he starts to cry.
“I was so tired of financially struggling for so many years,” he says through an interpreter.
“Now, receiving these awards — it’s saved my life, my career, my family.
I’ve taken so many risks, and without these nominations and awards, I don’t know what would have happened.” He ponders a different life,
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