Alison Steadman (OBE)- Part 1 (18+)
Oh Alison has got a boot on! 🤔
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2. ‘Alison Steadman was born in 1946 in Liverpool, the daughter of George Percival Steadman and Marjorie Evans. Educated at Childwall Valley High School, she studied at the East-15 Acting School from 1966-1969, ..then became a secretary at the Liverpool Probation Service before deciding on a full-time acting career.’ liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool…
3. She made her professional stage debut in "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" at the Theatre Royal in 1968, where she also played Ophelia in "Hamlet."
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5. Scheherazade. An interesting little tale...
6. Liverpool - The Beatles & Steadman.
'Liverpool in the 1960s – everything was in black and white until the Beatles started playing lunchtime sessions at the Cavern and the city exploded into colour. Ignoring her mother’s orders, ‘There’ll be trouble…’, Steadman would sneak off to watch them – ‘We’re just going shopping, Mum.’ '
'She once cornered John Lennon and Paul McCartney in the post office for autographs. ‘He put, “To Alison, love Paul,” and gave it to me, then he said, “Here give it back to me a minute.” And he wrote “Beatles”, in brackets, underneath. And he said, “I thought I’d better put that, because in the future someone’s going to look at that and say, ‘Who the bloody hell’s Paul?’”
‘And then, of course, when the Beatles became famous, Mum said, “You did go there, didn’t you? What was it like?”’ She laughs.'
It always goes back to the Beatles!
7. Nice ring..🙄
8. ‘Staying with her parents in 1972, she went to the Everyman Theatre and was cast with Jonathan Pryce in Ted Whitehead's play 'The Foursome', also set in Liverpool. It was about two young couples who go off to Freshfield and spend a day on the sand dunes. The stage was covered in sand and the play had a lot of nudity and rude language.’
‘Mike Leigh drove to Liverpool to see her in the play and asked her to be in his film 'Hard Labour', during which, both have said, they "got together". They married in 1973 and had two sons, Toby (born 1978) and Leo (born 1981) and lived in Wood Green, London.’
A History Of Liverrpool Thespians - Alison Steadman | thefootballvoice
thefootballvoice.com/2023/12/a-hist…
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10. Eyes full of fatness!
Are they related? Leigh and Freud?
11. Mike Leigh
‘Awarded an OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1993 Queen's Honours List for his services to the film industry.
He was made a Fellow of the British Film Institute in recognition of his outstanding contribution to film and television culture.’
imdb.com/name/nm0005139…
12. Abigail's Party.
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14. Who is the massive bloke on the right? 😂
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16. ‘She starred as Elmire in the 1983 RSC production of Molière's Tartuffe, which was adapted for BBC television. 2002 saw her play the role of Hillary in Debbie Isitt's The Woman Who Cooked Her Husband at the West End's Ambassadors Theatre to widely positive reviews.’
Helen Mirren and the cooked husband too.
17. Roses ...A taste of 'Honey'..
18. David Jason - Come Rain Come Shine
19. Sir David Jason, 83, forced to postpone Only Fools convention due to health issues.
David Jason, the GLIDING CLUB and pedo friends of his….hmmm msn.com/en-gb/health/o…
21. Steadman ‘is a birdwatcher and in November 2016 became an ambassador for London Wildlife Trust.'
What does it mean to be a birdwatcher?
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23. ‘Alison has chosen to champion The Hedgehog, an unmistakable British creature. 100 signed A4 hedgehog prints are available, with 50% of the sale price donated to People’s Trust for Endangered Species.’
50% of the sale price goes to the charity - where does the rest go?
creaturecandy.co.uk/alison-steadman
24. Spiders..web..wands..
25. one eye … bug ‘love’ - ugh (eat zee bugs!)
pedo swirl on snail shell
‘saves the bees’…
26. Creepy.
27. Penguin..Fortress..Secrets
28. ‘Fish with Fingers’ 🤔
‘fish fingers’
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Steadman has shared ‘she has a 'grandmotherly' love for Robbie Williams since starring with him in Better Man.' 2024 virginradio.co.uk/entertainment/…
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32. OBE - for 'Services Rendered'...
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End Part One/
Thankyou for Reading,
Research by @NinaBrooke8 and David Howey.
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