Alison Steadman

Known for ActingBorn 1946-08-26 (age 80)Liverpool, England, UK

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).Read more

Movies & web series

Off Grid

Virtuoso

Bel Ami

Gavin & Stacey: A Special Christmas

The BAFTA Awards

We Love Gavin and Stacey

The One and Only Mike Leigh

D.I.Y. Hard

A Small Mourning

The Jim Henson Hour

Do You Remember the First Time?

The Worst Week of My Life

Inside No. 9

Yours Faithfully, Edna Welthorpe (Mrs)

Pride and Prejudice

Bosom Pals

Fat Friends

Gotta Get Out

Crapston Villas

Degas and Pissario Fall Out

Orphan Black

Selling Hitler

Better Man

Mike Leigh: Making Plays

Gavin & Stacey: A Fond Farewell

Twisted Tales

The Syndicate

Remembers…

Bob the Builder: A Christmas to Remember - The Movie

Let Them Eat Cake

Lewis

No Bananas

Life

Gavin & Stacey

Secrets & Lies

The Missing Postman

Midsomer Murders

Yonderland

The Singing Detective

Stitch Head

Fanny Hill

Oil Strike North

Kavanagh Q.C.

Abigail's Party

Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairytale

Gadget Man

Screen One

Ivor the Invisible