Alison Steadman Alison Steadman 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 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
Justin Anderson (film director) and is set to be his first feature film as a director. In 2016, he shot a short film entitled "The Idyll" based on the short story "Idylle" by Guy de Maupassant. It features French actress Emma de Caunes and Scottish actor Dougray Scott. Justin Anderson (film director) Justin Anderson (born 23 March 1967) is a British film director and screenwriter. Anderson trained as a painter at the Slade School of Fine Art in London, where he won the John Ruskin Prize for painting. He then worked as an assistant for Scottish artist Bruce McLean before continuing his studies at