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
Javier Aguirre (director) currently married to actress Esperanza Roy. Javier Aguirre (director) Javier Aguirre (born 13 June 1935 in Donostia-San Sebastián), is a Spanish film director, writer and producer. Aguirre was born in Donostia-San Sebastián in Spain. He started his work as a director in 1961, and had a prolific career, directing 45 feature films, 10 short films, 2 documentaries, and 25 documentary shorts. Aguirre also wrote and produced most of his films. Aguirre developed an interest in film at an early age. When he was a teenager, he started collaborating for entertainment magazines like "Radiocinema", "Film Ideal", and others. In 1955, when