Disabled actors and performers, BBC

In a discussion the other day someone mentioned how, when disabled people say a part should be cast with an actual disabled person, no names come up. Plus that one where they say 'but the character has to stand up sometimes!' or whatever. So I went looking for names.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/commissioning/disabledtalent/
BBC pdfs of Disabled Actors and Performers Directories

bunches more people than I knew. So far I have found 'the uk's only disabled pro wrestler' who also does wheelchair basketball and uses sticks. Dan Edge. And that's just someone I clicked fairly randomly. I'm thinking perhaps he isn't quite like people think of when they think disabled performer. And neither are the rest of them, really.

additionally found
http://www.visablepeople.com/
UK's first agency with the sole objective of supplying professional models, actors and presenters with disabilities to the television, film and advertising industries.

and already knew
http://www.amputeesinaction.co.uk/aboutus.html
cause they did some TW and DW and films and stuff.

All this is UK and the discussion was about the US so *shrugs*

But lots of people in big lists, existing and everything.