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
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