Richard Barber
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- 2
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- Jul 31, 2026
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- Jul 17, 2026
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From Coronation Street to Bridgerton - disabled actors making waves on UK TV (opens the original)
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If the statistics are right and, at any one time, 90% of actors are out of work, how much worse must it be for disabled actors? Just ask Melissa Johns, Gracie McGonigal and Amy Trigg, all of them disabled, all of them triumphing against the odds. Melissa, 36, who has appeared in Coronation Street and Grantchester, describes herself as “a disabled person with a limb difference”, born with no right forearm or hand. Her father, Mike, a Romany gypsy, began to sense something was wrong when the baby
Stephen Mangan admits he's on TV so much his kids gave him a 2-word nickname (opens the original)
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There's acting on stage and TV. There’s presenting Portrait and Landscape Artist of the Year. There are any number of panel shows. The word ubiquitous doesn’t quite adequately embrace Stephen Mangan and all his doings. The man is everywhere. And he couldn’t be happier. He’s currently enjoying great success in a new production of The Truth on the West End stage – a funny, if cynical, look at infidelity as it affects two couples. Every scene is a two-hander between Stephen and one of the other thr
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