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
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