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Alison Steadman (born 26 August 1946) is an English actor. She won the 1991 National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress for the Mike Leigh (her husband 1973-2001) 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 No. 42.
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). She received BAFTA TV Award nominations for the 1986 BBC serial The Singing Detective, and in 2001 for the ITV drama series Fat Friends (2000–05). Other television roles include Pride and Prejudice (1995), Gavin & Stacey (2007–10, 2019) and Orphan Black (2015–16). Her other film appearances include A Private Function (1984), Clockwise (1986), Shirley Valentine (1989), Topsy Turvy (1999), and The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004).
Alison Steadman Biography / Wiki
| Name | Alison Steadman |
| Also Know | Alison Steadman OBE |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Liverpool, England, UK |
| Date of Birth | 1946-08-26 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 76 |
| Deathday |
Alison Steadman Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Abigail’s Party | Beverley | 1977-11-01 | Beverly wears low-cut dresses, too much make-up, and has a reputation as a man-eating monster. She turns a social get-together between married couples… |
| Life Is Sweet | Wendy | 1990-11-15 | Just north of London live Wendy, Andy, and their twenty-something twins, Natalie and Nicola. Wendy clerks in a shop, leads aerobics at a primary schoo… |
| A Civil Arrangement | Isobel | 2012-05-06 | Mother of the bride Isobel speaks direct to camera about her selfish Lesbian daughter Kelly’s upcoming civil partnership to the older, sensible Janice… |
| Nuts in May | Candice Marie | 1976-01-13 | A middle-class couple go camping in Dorset, but peace and quiet elude them…. |
| The Short & Curlies | Betty | 1988-09-29 | A short comedy by Mike Leigh about the romance between a young woman and a man who communicates only through jokes and humor…… |
| Through the Night | Christine Potts | 1975-12-02 | The play tells the story of Christine Potts, who undergoes an unexpected mastectomy, and struggles to cope with the aftermath and the deficiencies of … |
| Yours Faithfully, Edna Welthorpe (Mrs) | 2017-01-01 | Chris Shepherd directs a short animation in tribute to Joe Orton (Entertaining Mr Sloane, Loot) to mark the 50th anniversary of his death. Joe Orton w… | |
| Gotta Get Out | Maggie | 1995-01-01 | About a personal experience of claustrophobia and how to deal with it. When you can’t have another cup of coffee or another brandy because you just go… |
| Caravans: A British Love Affair | Narrator | 2009-02-25 | Documentary about the love affair between the British and their caravans, which saw the country establish the world’s largest caravan manufacturer and… |
| Fanny Hill | Mrs. Brown | 2007-10-22 | Orphaned by smallpox, young Lancashire country lady Fanny Hill cheerfully accepts her friend Esther Davies’s offer to join the London ‘working girls’ … |
| Come Rain Come Shine | Dora Mitchell | 2010-12-20 | David Jason stars as cockney ex-docker Don Mitchell in this emotional drama. Don is incredibly proud of his son David’s affluent lifestyle. The cars… |
| D.I.Y. Hard | Woman | 2002-09-30 | A hostage situation takes an unusual turn…. |
| Clockwise | Gwenda Stimpson | 1986-03-01 | An uncompromising British school headmaster finds himself beset by one thing going wrong after another…. |
| News Hounds | 1990-09-02 | Every cub reporter wants a front page ‘splash’ and the journalists from The Brit, a top-selling daily tabloid, are no exception. They’re on the trail … | |
| Chunky Monkey | Beryl | 2003-03-19 | Fitness fanatic, Donald Leek, indulges in a monthly Chunky Monkey experience with, someone vaguely resembling movie-songstress, Julie Andrews, who he’… |
| The Missing Postman | Christine Peacock | 1997-03-28 | When Dorset postman Clive Peacock is forced into early retirement, the years ahead look bleak. But on his last day in the job, in a moment of unexpect… |
| Girl | Jackie | 1974-02-25 | An episode of the BBC drama series Second City Firsts. Jackie is leaving the army. While waiting for her car to arrive, she encounters Corporal Harve… |
| Early to Bed | Helen | 1975-03-20 | Alan Bleasdale’s television debut, this beautifully observed drama stars Alison Steadman as a woman having a passionate tryst with the boy next door… |
| Who Gets the Dog | Jenny Evans | 2007-12-02 | A drama about a couple on the edge of divorce, their solicitors, their daughter and of course, their dog…. |
| We Can Be Heroes | Granny Evans | 2017-06-24 | Ben never knew his father; he was killed in 9/11 when Ben was just a baby. Eleven years later, Ben goes to spend the summer with his grandparents, han… |
| Bag of Yeast | Margaret Hudson | 1976-02-22 | When teacher Tony Scannell decides he wants to be ordained as a Catholic Priest his decision has wide ranging effects on his family and loved ones…. |
| Our Flesh and Blood | Jan Blincoe | 1977-01-18 | TV play by Mike Stott. Comedy about a couple expecting their first baby…. |
| Care | Mary | 2018-12-09 | Jenny, a single mother raising two daughters after her husband leaves, is aided by her widowed mother, Mary. But Jenny struggles to stay afloat after … |
| All About ‘Abigail’s Party’ | Herself | 2007-01-01 | A look at the production of Play for Today: Abigail’s Party (1977)…. |
| 23 Walks | Fern | 2020-07-30 | A gentle, sweet, funny, romantic story of love in later life. Following a couple in their sixties, Dave and Fern who get to know one another over the … |
| Pasmore | Kay Pasmore | 1980-10-21 | Colin Pasmore tests his strength against his family ties but finds them stronger than he ever imagined…. |
| Santa’s Last Christmas | Mrs Whatnot (voice) | 1999-01-01 | Santa and his helpers oversleep and risk causing a toy shortage at Christmas…. |
| Off Grid | Grace Tanner | 2019-12-13 | A man takes to a remote hideout with his sick wife, where they live in isolation as he battles to protect her life, and his own sanity, from a superna… |
| Virtuoso | Brenda | 1989-02-12 | (from AllMovie, written by Hal Erickson) “British character actor Alfred Molina contributes another top-rank characterization in Virtuoso. Molina essa… |
| Wilt | Eva | 1989-05-12 | Henry Wilt is a more or less failed teacher who fantasizes about murdering his dominant, non-attentive wife Eva. At a party who gets stuck in an infla… |
| Number One | Doreen | 1985-03-01 | A down on his luck Irishman in London decides to play snooker for money…. |
| Monster Maker | Perriwinkle | 1989-01-23 | A young boy wants to work with a famous creature/fx man but gets more than he bargained when one of the creatures, The Ultra-Gorgon, takes him under h… |
| Coming Through | Kate | 1985-01-01 | While researching the work of author D.H. Lawrence (Kenneth Branagh), Kate (Alison Steadman) begins a romance with a fellow academic, and learns about… |
| Fry and Laurie Reunited | Self – Narrator (voice) | 2010-11-24 | Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie are to reunite for a TV special to mark the 30th anniversary of their partnership…. |
| Tartuffe, or The Imposter | Elmire | 1983-07-28 | Royal Shakespeare Company’s televised adaptation of Moliere’s play with Antony Sher in the title role of Tartuffe…. |
| Taking Leave | Nonie | 1974-11-28 | Mike comes home on leave from Ulster. After six years in the Army he has to decide whether to sign up again or not. His parents want him to leave the … |
| We Love Gavin and Stacey | 2020-01-01 | A celebration of Ruth Jones and James Corden’s comedy, with stars including Alison Steadman, Larry Lamb and Melanie Walters revealing backstage gossip… | |
| P’tang, Yang, Kipperbang | Miss Land | 1982-11-03 | Based on Jack Rosenthal’s childhood memories, Michael Apted’s film, set in the summer of 1948, features 14-year-old Alan who has just three wishes: th… |
| Shirley Valentine | Jane | 1989-08-30 | Wondering what has happened to herself, now feeling stagnant and in a rut, Shirley Valentine finds herself regularly talking to the wall while prepari… |
| Peterman | Auntie Jean | 2015-04-01 | The death of his safe cracking grandfather has landed Johnny as the only one left alive who can open a safe for a degenerate crew of violent gangsters… |
| Ivor the Invisible | Auntie Barbara (voice) | 2001-12-24 | Written by Raymond Briggs, this beautifully animated film tells the story of ten-year-old John. After being woken up early one morning. John finds a b… |
| The Dinner Party | Juliet | 2007-09-09 | Young couple Jackie and Leo move from North London to a suburban home in the green belt paradise of Southern England. At the birthday party of a neigh… |
| French Exchange | Mrs. Phillips | 2011-07-14 | 15-year-old Jack is on a French Exchange trip with his school. But his mum won’t stop ringing to check-up on him. On his last night, his host falls il… |
| The Muscle Market | Susan | 1981-01-13 | Danny Duggan runs a failing building contractors, and resorts to sub-gangster thuggery to keep the business afloat. However, with the bottom falling o… |
| Hard Labour | Veronica Thornley | 1973-03-12 | A quiet and put-upon house cleaner breaks her silence…. |
| Jack and the Beanstalk | Mother / Veronica | 1999-10-11 | In this spell-binding story brave Jack climbs the Beanstalk to the magical world of Beanland. He and his new friends Dilly (the small but fearless Bea… |
| Blame It on the Bellboy | Rosemary Horton | 1992-03-06 | Mike Lawton, Maurice Horton, and Melvin Orton are three men who come to Venice. One of them is a hit man sent to take out a mobster. Another is a lech… |
| Champions | Mary Hussey | 1984-04-20 | The true story of jockey Bob Champion who overcame cancer to win the 1981 Grand National… |
| Burn Burn Burn | Diana | 2016-10-28 | Following the death of their friend, two girls in their late twenties embark on a road trip to spread his ashes. Seph and Alex take turns driving. Dan… |
| Roald & Beatrix: The Tail of the Curious Mouse | Dora | 2020-12-24 | Roald & Beatrix, the tail of the curious mouse, a heart-warming Christmas film inspired by the true encounter between a six-year-old Roald Dahl and hi… |
| The Snow Queen’s Revenge | Pearl | 1996-01-01 | The Snow Queen holds Ellie responsible for ruining her plans to freeze the world and sets out to seek revenge. She kidnaps Dimly the flying reindeer a… |
| Becky Watts Killed for Kicks | Narrator | 2017-10-18 | The story behind the murder of 16-year-old Becky Watts, who was killed by her stepbrother Nathan Matthews and his 21-year-old partner Shauna Hoare in … |
| Happy Now | Bronwyn Race | 2001-08-20 | All grown up and gunning for political power in a small North Wales community, Glen Marcus and his best mate harbour a dark secret which seems to be c… |
| Dad’s Army | Mrs. Fox | 2016-02-05 | A cinema remake of the classic sitcom Dad’s Army (1968). The Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard platoon deal with a visiting female journalist and a German … |
| A Private Function | Mrs. Allardyce | 1984-11-09 | In the summer of 1947, Britain prepares to commemorate the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Phillip. To get around food-rationing laws, Dr. Ch… |
| Mike Leigh: Making Plays | Herself | 1982-09-04 | Writer and Director Mike Leigh discusses the techniques used to create his plays…. |
| The Life and Death of Peter Sellers | Casting Agent | 2004-10-01 | The turbulent personal and professional life of actor Peter Sellers (1925-1980), from his beginnings as a comic performer on BBC Radio to his huge suc… |
| The Greatest TV Shows of the Noughties | Self | 2009-12-27 | Channel 4 has conducted a survey with the leading TV critics and industry figures, and asked the public in a YouGov national poll, to tell us what the… |
| Confetti | Sam’s Mum | 2006-05-05 | A mockumentary that follows three couples as they battle it out to win the coveted title of ‘Most Original Wedding of the Year’…. |
| Stormy Monday | Mayoress | 1988-05-01 | When a corrupt American businessman tries to strong arm his way into businesses in Newcastle, England, he is thwarted by a club attendant and his wait… |
| Selling Hitler | Edda Goering | 1991-06-11 | In 1981, Gerd Heidemann (Jonathan Pryce), a war correspondent and reporter with the German magazine Stern, makes what he believes is the literary and … |
| The Adventures of Baron Munchausen | Daisy | 1988-12-07 | An account of Baron Munchausen’s supposed travels and fantastical experiences with his band of misfits…. |
| Do You Remember The First Time? | 1994-05-01 | An unconventional promo for the 1994 single of the same name by British band Pulp. Various celebrities are interviewed about their memories of losing … | |
| The One and Only Mike Leigh | Herself | 2014-11-24 | In a revealing documentary, Mike Leigh, director of Secrets & Lies, Vera Drake and Abigail’s Party among many others, talks to Alan Yentob about a… |
| The King’s Man | Rita | 2021-12-22 | As a collection of history’s worst tyrants and criminal masterminds gather to plot a war to wipe out millions, one man must race against time to stop … |
| The Ugly Duckling | The Hen (voice) | 1997-09-04 | The Ugly Duckling teams up with friend Scruffy, and the lovable misfits embark on a journey that helps them realize that their differences are what ma… |
| The Caucasian Chalk Circle | Kato/Natella/Aniko | 1985-01-01 | The hardships faced by a woman trying to survive a bloody civil war while caring for the abandoned child of the deposed former ruler…. |
| Topsy-Turvy | Madame Leon | 1999-12-15 | After their production “Princess Ida” meets with less-than-stunning reviews, the relationship between Gilbert and Sullivan is strained to breaking. Th… |
| Secrets & Lies | Woman with dog | 1996-05-24 | With both her adoptive parents now dead, a black optometrist decides to make contact with her birth mother, but is shocked to find out that she is whi… |
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