Adam Pearson
Adam Pearson is an award-winning disability rights campaigner, actor, presenter and speaker who has spoken at events such as the World Health Innovation Summit, Public Service & Criminology Conference and British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy and has also given a TEDx talk.
Adam Pearson is an award-winning disability rights campaigner, actor, presenter and speaker. Adam was nominated as UK Documentary Presenter of the Year at the 2016 Grierson Awards.
Adam has presented the critically-acclaimed documentaries Horizon: My Amazing Twin (BBC Two), Adam Pearson: Freak Show (BBC Three), The Ugly Face Of Disability Hate Crime (BBC Three) and Eugenics: Science's Greatest Scandal (BBC Four) as well as being a reporter on Tricks Of The Restaurant Trade (Channel 4) and The One Show (BBC One).
He has also featured on some of the nation’s favourite TV shows including Celebrity Masterchef (BBC One), Celebrity Mastermind (BBC One), Pointless Celebrities (BBC One) and Celebrity Antiques Road Trip (BBC Two).
Adam worked as a researcher for the BBC and Channel 4 before becoming a strand presenter on the first series of Beauty & The Beast: The Ugly Face Of Prejudice (Channel 4). He was also one of the team who developed the series and he consulted on the Dutch version. Adam also worked on The Undateables (Channel 4) as a casting researcher.
Adam appeared in the BAFTA-nominated film, Under The Skin, directed by Jonathan Glazer and starring Scarlett Johansson. He also played himself in the independent feature, DRIB, which premiered at SXSW in 2017.
Adam plays the lead role in Chained For Life which has been released theatrically in the UK and US, as well as being shown at film festivals around the world. Of his performance, The New York Times described him as "an actor of great charm." He has most recently filmed A Different Man, with Sebastian Stan.
Adam has spoken at a number of events for companies and organisations such as the World Health Innovation Summit, Public Service & Criminology Conference and British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy. He has also given a critically-acclaimed TEDx talk.
Adam is an ambassador for The Prince's Trust, Changing Faces and Us In A Bus. He also won a RADAR Award and a Diana Award for his campaigning work. Adam was named in The Shaw Trust Power 100 List of 2020 - a list of the UK's most influential disabled people.
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