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
Sarah Marshall (British actress) married American production designer and art director Melvin Bourne 13 June 1952. They had one child, Timothy Bourne, and they divorced in 1957. She married actor Carl Held in 1964. Marshall died on 18 January 2014, at age 80 after a lengthy battle with cancer. She was survived by her second husband and her son Timothy from her first marriage. Sarah Marshall (British actress) Sarah Lynne Marshall (25 May 1933 – 18 January 2014) was an English actress, who was the daughter of actors Herbert Marshall and Edna Best. She appeared in many popular classic television shows, especially in the