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British Acting Community Urges Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy To Monitor UK Broadcasting’s Record On Women’s Age Representation


Labour Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy is being urged to amend existing diversity monitoring to include age in the UK.

Nicky Clark ‘s Acting Your Age Campaign(AYAC) has today released a film calling for the amendment to mandatory monitoring, which it says is a major challenge to women over 45 in UK broadcasting. A list of British actresses including Julie Graham, Hermione Norris, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Sarah Parish, Amanda Redman, Juliet Stevenson and Indira Varma have backed the call and appear in the film, along with actors such as John Simms, Adrian Dunbar and Martin Clunes. Campaigner and former actress Clark said the film is an “open letter” to Nandy, claiming that without women’s age representation being monitored, it cannot be measured and the real picture behind equality in the industry “is vague to the point of obfuscation and can’t be challenged and ultimately changed.”

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