TV SERIES · 2011

Switched at Birth

DramaFamilyRomance43 min per episode

When two teens learn they were accidentally switched in the hospital as newborns, the lives they thought were theirs suddenly split open. Vanessa Marano’s Bay Kennish has grown up in an affluent household with two parents and a brother, while Katie Leclerc is Daphne Vasquez, raised by a single mother in a working-class neighborhood after losing her hearing as a child. As the Kennishes and Vasquezes are brought into each other’s orbit, the show tracks the fallout inside both families, with American Sign Language woven throughout Daphne’s home life, friendships, and the uneasy new connection between the girls.