British Actors' Equity Association
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The British Actors' Equity Association (now called Equity) is the British actors' trade union. It was formed in 1930 by a group of West End performers. The members of the union have the greatest range of fees of any union in Britain.
It is one of the hardest unions to join and the last of the closed shop types. Every paid British professional actor must be a member of this union.
British Equity is the British counterpart of several American unions, including Actors' Equity Association, the Screen Actors Guild, and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.
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