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
Myra Frances Myra Frances Myra Frances (born 10 March 1943) is a British actress. In the 1974 "Second City Firsts" episode "Girl", Frances performed, with Alison Steadman, the first lesbian kiss on British television. She is best known for her recurring role as Anne Tranter in the 1970s television drama series "Survivors" and for her appearance in the 1979 "Doctor Who" serial "The Creature from the Pit", in which she played the villainous Lady Adrasta. She also appeared in several comedy films of the 1970s including "Don't Just Lie There, Say Something!" (1973). She also played a teacher at a party in