But so did Tricia Helfer and Mary McDonnell during their run in Battlestar Galactica, as well as Sarah Michelle Gellar and Anthony Stewart Head in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

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Eighteen years ago, John Sayles might have boiled down this back-to-basics portrait of a paralyzed, bitter white soap star (Mary McDonnell) and her strong-willed black caretaker (Alfre Woodard) into a twenty-page short story.

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Among the signatories are Conservative Zac Goldsmith, Labour MPs Mary Macleod, Seema Malhotra, John McDonnell and Andy Slaughter and Lib Dem peers Baroness Hamwee and Baroness Kramer.

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