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
Catherine Steadman Catherine Steadman Catherine Steadman (born February 8, 1987) is an English actress and author, best known for playing Mabel Lane Fox in series 5 (2014) of ITV drama "Downton Abbey". Her debut novel, the psychological thriller, "Something in the Water" was published in June 2018 by Simon & Schuster UK and Penguin Random House USA. Steadman trained at the Oxford School of Drama and made her screen debut playing Julia Bertram in the ITV adaptation of "Mansfield Park" opposite Billie Piper, James D'arcy, Rory Kinnear and Michelle Ryan. Since then she has appeared in television dramas such as the CBC/Showtime