Tommy Jessop
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title:
Tommy Jessop
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Thomas Jessop is a British actor. He is the first actor with Down syndrome to star in a primetime BBC drama, the first professional actor with Down syndrome to tour theatres as Hamlet, and the first to become a full voting member of BAFTA. In 2021, he was awarded an Honorary Doctor of the Arts by the University of Winchester and became an Ambassador to Mencap and to the National Down syndrome Policy Group. He has commented that disabled actors need opportunities to appear other than as victims o
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British actor
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Jessop
date created:
2012-07-27T15:04:01Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T10:27:42Z
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