Alison Steadman in Highgate, London. Steadman and other celebrities, including Tom Hiddleston, Jo Brand, E. L. James and Rachel Riley, designed and signed cards for the UK-based charity Thomas Coram Foundation for Children. The campaign was launched by crafting company Stampin' Up! UK and the cards were auctioned off on eBay during May 2014. In November 2016, Steadman became an ambassador for London Wildlife Trust. 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
Paul Verhoeven (German director) Paul Verhoeven (German director) Paul Verhoeven (, Unna, Westphalia – ) was a German actor, writer, and film and theatre director. He had 13 siblings and the family lived in modest circumstances. He directed and acted in over 50 films, and wrote over 20 film scripts, the first of which was "Das kleine Hofkonzert" in 1935, an operetta with music by Edmund Nick based on a comedy by Verhoeven and . From 1945 to 1948 he was artistic director at the Residenz Theatre/Staatsschauspiel in Munich. Verhoeven was married to the actress Doris Kiesow, with whom he had three children: Lis