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
Richard Steadman increasing emphasis on the treatment of knee disorders. His first sports client was Cindy Nelson, and from 1976 he was named Chief Physician for the United States Ski Team. In 1989, his work was recognized with his election to the U.S. National Ski Hall of Fame. Steadman served as a director of RBio, Inc. from 1990 to 2002. Looking to move from Tahoe, in 1990 Cindy Nelson and then Vail, Colorado owner George N. Gillett, Jr., persuaded Steadman and shoulder-and-arm-specialist Richard Hawkins, to relocate east and form the Steadman-Hawkins clinic. They also started a non-profit sports medicine foundation in order