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8 TV Actors Who Helped Increase Authentic Disability Representation Last Year

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Hollywood prides itself on staying attuned to issues, releasing content and creating discussion around important, relevant topics of the day.

But in one are the industry still needs a lot of growth: representation of characters with disabilities. A new report released by GLAAD shows that inclusion of characters with disabilities grew in 2020, but only marginally.

Out of 773 series regular characters on broadcast scripted series, just 3.5% of them have a disability. That’s an increase from 2019’s number of 3.1%, but still only amounts to 27 characters overall who have a disability.

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