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
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