Alison Steadman 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 Award for Best Actress for her role as Mari in the original production of "The Rise and Fall of Little Voice". In a 2007 Channel 4 poll, the "50 Greatest Actors" voted for by other actors, she was ranked No. 42. Steadman made her professional stage debut in 1968 and went on to establish her career in Mike Leigh's 1970s TV plays "Nuts
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