Steadman during a recording of You'll Have Had Your Tea for BBC Radio 4 in 2006
Born
(1946-08-26) 26 August 1946 (age 77)
Liverpool, England
Alma mater
East 15 Acting School
Occupation
Actress
Years active
1968–present
Spouse
Mike Leigh
(m. 1973; div. 2001)
Partner
Michael Elwyn
Children
2
Steadman's voice
recorded 2012, as part of an audio description of the pelicans in St James's Park for VocalEyes
Alison SteadmanOBE (born 26 August 1946) is an English actress. She received the 1977 Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress for Abigail's Party, the 1991 National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress for the Mike Leigh film Life Is Sweet and the 1993 Olivier Award for Best Actress for her role as Mari in the original production of The Rise and Fall of Little Voice. In a 2007 Channel 4 poll, the ‘50 Greatest Actors’ voted for by other actors, she was ranked 42.[1]
Steadman made her professional stage debut in 1968 and went on to establish her career in Mike Leigh's 1970s TV plays Nuts in May (1976) and Abigail's Party (1977).[2] She received BAFTA TV Award nominations for the 1986 BBC serial The Singing Detective and in 2001 for the ITV drama series Fat Friends (2000–2005). Other television roles include Pride and Prejudice (1995), Gavin & Stacey (2007–2010, 2019) and Orphan Black (2015–2016). Her other film appearances include A Private Function (1984), Topsy-Turvy (1999), The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004), Dad's Army (2016) and The King's Man (2021).
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^"Alison Steadman" Liverpool John Moores University Honorary Fellowship Award speech July 2010 Archived 16 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 7 June 2011
AlisonSteadman OBE (born 26 August 1946) is an English actress. She received the 1977 Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress for Abigail's Party...
(Stella). Elwyn was born in Pontypridd. He is the partner of actress AlisonSteadman, and is best known for his role as Sir Edward in the BBC series of...
Television. Four of the cast – Ruth Jones, James Corden, Sheridan Smith and AlisonSteadman – went on to appear in the sitcom Gavin & Stacey. Jonathan Ryland who...
comedy-drama film written and directed by Paul Morrison. It stars AlisonSteadman, Dave Johns and Graham Cole. It was released on 30 July 2020 in Australia...
directing skills at East 15 Acting School, where he met the actress AlisonSteadman. Leigh responded negatively to RADA's agenda, finding himself being...
friend of Marlow's father who has an affair with his mother (AlisonSteadman). Steadman plays Marlow's mother and the mysterious "Lili", one of the murder...
is a 1987 short film written and directed by Mike Leigh. It stars AlisonSteadman, Wendy Nottingham, Sylvestra Le Touzel and David Thewlis. The Short...
BBC Radio 4 alongside Olivia Colman, Natascha McElhone, Darren Boyd, AlisonSteadman, and John Simm. In 2017, Bird played the lead role of Sammy in Disney...
Retrieved 23 March 2021. Writer: Ray Connolly; Ray: Philip Jackson, Plum: AlisonSteadman; Director/Producer: Gary Brown (23 March 2021). "Devoted". Drama. BBC...
programmes are shown on BBC Two. The first two series were narrated by AlisonSteadman, and the third by Judith Holder (who is the 'grumpy old woman' in the...
Sirtis, David Jason, Brenda Blethyn, James Bolam, Adrian Edmondson, AlisonSteadman, Timothy West, Clive Russell, Janet McTeer and Michael Murphy. Several...
Island, which also featured Reece Shearsmith, Julian Rhind-Tutt and AlisonSteadman. In 2017, for the BBC, she portrayed Nurse Cornish in an episode of...
1996. It is set in England during World War II. The cast was led by AlisonSteadman, Michael Elwyn and Stephanie Beacham. Radio Times, 18–24 May 2013,...
2020, Demba starred as Andy Okonkwo in the BBC drama Life, alongside AlisonSteadman, Victoria Hamilton and Adrian Lester. In 2022, Demba wrote and directed...
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