Alison Steadman, OBE, is an English actor. She made her professional stage debut in 1968. She went on to establish her career in Mike Leigh’s 1970s TV plays Nuts in May and Abigail’s Party. Received BAFTA TV Award nominations for the 1986 BBC serial The Singing Detective.
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Alison Steadman, OBE, is an English actor. She made her professional stage debut in 1968 and went on to establish her career in Mike Leigh’s 1970s TV plays Nuts in May and Abigail’s Party. She received BAFTA TV Award nominations for the 1986 BBC serial The Singing Detective, and in 2001 for the ITV drama series Fat Friends. Other television roles include Pride and Prejudice, Gavin & Stacey and Orphan Black. Her other film appearances include A Private Function, Topsy-Turvy, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers and Dad’s Army. She was nominated for the 1991 National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress for the Mike Leigh film Life Is Sweet.
She won an Olivier Award for The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, and also appeared in 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. In a 2007 Channel 4 poll, the \”50 Greatest Actors\” voted for by other actors, she was ranked No. 42. In 2014, Steadman appeared as Madame Raquin in Helen Edmundson’s adaptation of Emile Zola’s Therese Raquin. In 2016, she presented the series The British Islands with Alison Steadman on Channel 4.
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