Alison Steadman Mike Leigh's "Abigail's Party", which she reprised with the original cast on television. She won an Olivier Award for "The Rise and Fall of Little Voice", and also appeared in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", "Entertaining Mr Sloane", "Hotel Paradiso", and others in locations as diverse as the Royal Court, the Theatre Royal, the Old Vic, the Hampstead Theatre, the Nottingham Playhouse, the Everyman Liverpool and the National Theatre. She starred as Elmire in the 1983 RSC production of Molière's "Tartuffe", which was adapted for BBC television. In 2010, Steadman was cast as Madame Arcati in a revival of
James Steadman (politician) was married twice: first to Julia Beckwith and then to Emma Jane Turnbull. In 1887, Steadman was named judge in the county court; he retired in 1898. James Steadman (politician) James Steadman (March 27, 1818 – May 16, 1913) was a Canadian lawyer, judge and political figure in New Brunswick. He represented Westmorland in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1854 to 1856 and from 1857 to 1865. He was probably born in Moncton, the son of William Steadman and Hannah Tatro Couch. Steadman studied law and was called to the bar in 1844. He served in the Executive