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| Birth Name(s) : Alison Steadman |
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Full Alison Steadman Biography
Alison Steadman OBE (born on August 26, 1946) is an award-winning English stage, television and film actress.
Alison was born in Liverpool, Merseyside, England. She trained as a secretary and worked in a probation office, then in her 20s she enrolled in the East 15 Acting School, where she met Mike Leigh. They married in 1973 and had two sons, Toby in 1979 and Leo in 1981. They separated in 1995 and divorced in 2001. Her present partner is Michael Elwyn and she currently lives in Highgate, London.
She has acted to much acclaim in productions of Abigail's Party (later filmed for television), The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Entertaining Mr Sloane, Hotel Paradiso, and others in locations as diverse as the Royal Court, the Theatre Royal, the Old Vic, the Hampstead Theatre, the Nottingham Playhouse, the Everyman Liverpool and the National Theatre.
She has acted in many films, including Shirley Valentine, Clockwise and A Private Function, although she is perhaps most noted for her work in films directed by Leigh such as Life Is Sweet and Topsy Turvy.
Her television work include Fat Friends as Betty, Selling Hitler, The Singing Detective, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, and Pride and Prejudice as Mrs. Bennet. She also provides a voice over in the children's TV show Bob the Builder. Television productions directed by Leigh in which she has acted include Nuts in May, and famously in Abigail's Party as Beverly. She also appeared in the BBC comedy The Worst Week of My Life. In 2007 she has been seen in the "BBC Three" comedy "Gavin & Stacey" as Gavin's proud mother Pamela, and in Fanny Hill on BBC Four. |
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