Jill Paice-Gone With The Wind/U.K. Equity?

I adore Jill Paice.

I'm a little confused as to how she is able to continue to originate roles in London. It seems like it's a pretty big deal for an American actress to go to London and do a show. I know there are big time trades involved...but it seems like she has some sort of exemption or something. Does anybody have the info?

another question, It seems like the only reason americans get to perform in London is if they are huge stars. I believe there is something specific written in the rules written by equity. How did she even get considered for Woman in White when she was literally just fresh out of college. Im so glad she did, becuase she's fantastic. I'm just curious.

I may be completely wrong in this, and I'm sure I'll be corrected if I'm not, but the union rules here in the US are more stringent than in the UK... the "trades" are required by Equity here, not the in London. You have it backwards.

I was under the impression it went both ways...

I thought I read somewhere that she was born in England.

UK/European Equity doesn't seem to care that much about that sort of thing, look at all the bios that list German and European tours in the credits.

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I thought that Ann ( Drew's wife) was from either Austria or Germany ( may have spent time as a child in France) not the UK and he was born in Missouri.

Drew is from America. I think his wife is somewhere from Europe. There was some either backstage or interview video about Beauty closing. She was eiather the last babbett or one of the last. Anyway, I heard her speak and her accent is clearly Europian. I couldn't spot exactly where it was from. But, it was europian.

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I would bet, that just like for WOMAN IN WHITE, Jill is there on an exchange, and there'll be a British Actor working on Broadway at some point because of it.

I was watching the vlog for the show on youtube. It seemed that there were just as many American actors in the cast as there were British.

I thought that the trade thing was an eye for an eye type of deal. In other words, one British actor for one American actor and so on and so forth. I never realized that you could do more then one actor.

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Jill is American. I go to Baldwin-Wallace for music theatre and Jill went here as well. I am pretty sure she is from Ohio, in fact. Equity in England had to agree to give her a contract in exchange for American equity giving an English actor a contract. THey did the same thing for Woman in White. It is a huge deal, it doesn't happen often.