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
Jane Seymour (actress) Moore; and the Hallmark Movie Channel film "Lake Effects" (2012) with Scottie Thompson and Madeline Zima. In April 2016, she starred as Florence Lancaster in Noël Coward's play "The Vortex", presented in Singapore by the British Theatre Playhouse. Seymour has been married and divorced four times. Her first marriage, to Michael Attenborough, the son of film actor and director Richard Attenborough, was from 1971 to 1973. to be followed by marriage to Attenborough's friend Geoffrey Planer from 1977 to 1978. In 1981, Seymour married David Flynn. This marriage produced two children: actress Katherine Flynn, born 7 January 1982; and Sean