Alison Steadman in the late Mike Stott's "My Mad Grandad" on BBC Radio 4. In Manchester in 1972, shooting his television film "Hard Labour", director Mike Leigh drove over to Liverpool to see Ted Whitehead's play "The Foursome", (Steadman was in the Liverpool Everyman cast). He asked Steadman to be in his film. "During the preparation of the film, Mike and Alison, as they both say, 'got together.'" They married in 1973 and had two sons, Toby (b. February 1978) and Leo (b. August 1981). The couple separated in 1995 and divorced in 2001. Steadman's present partner is Michael Elwyn;the couple live
Christian Lara (film director) Christian Lara (film director) Christian Lara (born January 25, 1939, in Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, French West Indies) is a Guadeloupean/French film director, writer, cinematographer and producer. Having shot more than twenty feature films in the Caribbean, France, Canada, Africa, he is regarded by many as ""the Father of French Antilles cinema"". Christian Lara began his professional career in Paris (France) as a journalist for "Le Figaro", a French daily newspaper. As of 1973, he turns film-maker, directing his first movie, "Jeu de dames" (en: "Dames play"), starring Georges de Caunes. That same year, following a then Parisian trend for erotic films,