Alison Steadman - Personal Life

Personal Life

In 1972, and in Manchester to shoot 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), and 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 in February 1978 and Leo in August 1981. They separated in 1995 and divorced in 2001.

Steadman's present partner is Michael Elwyn and she lives in Highgate, London.

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