Alan Alda reveals he didn't recognize his own daughter due to face blindness
Alan Alda is opening up about his struggles with face blindness.
In a new interview with People, the 89-year-old year recalled the time he didn't recognize his own daughter, Beatrice, due to prosopagnosia.
Alda said the incident occurred on the set of his 1981 comedy 'The Four Seasons' when he had Beatrice, now 63, dye her hair for her role in the film.
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8 Alan Alda at SiriusXM Studios in NYC in Nov. 2019.
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'I saw this person with horn-rimmed glasses and blonde hair staring at me, and it was starting to get distracting,' Alda explained. 'I said to the assistant director, 'Don't let these strangers come on the set.' He said, 'That's your daughter!''
'I don't think she was too happy about that,' Alda added, 'because neither of us knew that there was such a thing as face blindness [at the time].'
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8 Alan Alda with his wife Arlene and daughters Elizabeth, Eve and Beatrice in 1979.
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8 Alan Alda at the AARP The Magazine's 19th Annual Movies For Grownups Awards in 2020.
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The 'M*A*S*H' actor, who is still dealing with the condition, said that nowadays it's 'very hard' for him to recognize people.
'When somebody comes up to me, as if they know me, I often don't know if they know me from seeing me on the screen or if I actually know them,' he shared.
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'I could have dinner with somebody, spend two hours with somebody next to me, and the next day not know who they are,' Alda said.
8 Alan Alda in 'M*A*S*H.'
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8 Alan Alda on the set of the 1979 movie 'The Seduction of Joe Tynan' in Baltimore.
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Alda also spoke to the outlet about his Parkinson's disease, which he was diagnosed with in 2015.
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The Emmy Award winner said that managing the neurological disorder has 'gone from a part-time job to almost a full-time job keeping track of all these little solutions.'
8 Alan Alda attends AARP The Magazine's 19th Annual Movies For Grownups Awards.
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'But it keeps me always looking for the funny side,' he shared.
Alda further explained how his longtime wife Arlene, 92, has supported him during his health struggles.
8 Arlene Alda and Alan Alda attend the 2024 Bay Street Theater's 32nd Annual Summer Gala in July 2024.
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'I don't have dexterity with my fingers the way I used to, so sometimes she has to tear a package open for me,' he said. 'She's so good-natured about it. I'm always saying, 'Thank you.''
Alda previously gave an update on his Parkinson's in a 2020 interview with 'AARP the Magazine.'
8 Arlene and Alan Alda at a a Jewish Home LifeCare dinner in NYC in 2015.
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'A lot of people hear they have Parkinson's and get depressed and panicky and don't do anything, just hoping it'll go away. It's not going to, but you can hold off the worst symptoms. Movement helps: walking, biking, treadmills. But also specific things: I move to music a lot.' he said. 'It's not the end of the world when you get this diagnosis.'
Other celebrities who have Parkinson's include Michael J. Fox, Ozzy Osbourne and Linda Ronstadt.
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