Alison Steadman Plessey, an electronics firm. Steadman was educated at Childwall Valley High School for Girls, a state grammar school in the Liverpool suburb of Childwall, followed by East 15 Acting School, to which she secured a place in the autumn of 1966 and where she met Mike Leigh during her second year. Having left the East 15 Acting School in Loughton, Essex, Steadman worked in various regional repertory theatres, starting at Lincoln in 1968, where her first role was that of the seductive schoolgirl Sandy in "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie". She created the role of the monstrous Beverly in
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,