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Alison Steadman
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Abigail (Alison Steadman) is the drunken hostess of a lame dinner party where her husband has the bad timing (and poor taste) to collapse from a heart attack onto the new carpet. The predicament forces Abigail into making a tough decision: What's more important, her dinner party or her stricken husband? Typical flinty fare from British director Mike Leigh.
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Alison Steadman is one of Britain's leading actors. She has starred in major British films including Topsy Turvy, Life is Sweet, Shirley Valentine and Abigail's Party. On television Steadman has starred in The Singing Detective,Pride and Prejudice and Fat Friends.
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From All Movie Guide: Trained at the East 15 Acting School, British actress Alison Steadman worked as a secretary for the Liverpool Probation Service before making her professional stage bow in 1968. Five years later, Steadman made her London theatrical debut. She won a plethora of awards for her rendition of the title role in both the stage and film version of Abigail's Party. This and several subsequent productions were directed by Steadman's former husband, Mike Leigh. She has starred in the British TV series Wackers (1975) and Gone to Seed (1992), and has made a number of conspicuous film appearances since her 1982 screen debut in Kipperbang. American TV viewers will remember Steadman as Mrs. Marlowe in the wildly eccentric Dennis Potter miniseries The Singing Detective.
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Acclaimed actress Alison Steadman is helping raise funds for Carers UK. Alison is known for her many TV and film roles such as Abigail's Party and Life is Sweet and more recently in BBC comedy Gavin and Stacey. Alison has recorded a fundraising appeal for Carers UK that will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4. In the appeal Alison talks of the impact caring had on her own family when her Mum had cancer. The appeal will be broadcast on Sunday 19th August on Radio 4 at 0755 hrs and repeated again that night at 2126 hrs. It is ... repeated the following Thursday.
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Alison Steadman was last at the Arts Theatre in Entertaining Mr Sloane. Alison's other recent thcatre credits include Memory of Water (Vaudeville Theatre) and The Provok'd Wife (Old Vic Theatre). Her recent film and tclevision credits include Topsy Turvy with Mike Leigh and ITV's Fat Friends which returns to television in September.
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Alison Steadman is regarded as one of Britain’s foremost actresses, whose career extends from theatre, to film, TV, radio, and voice-overs in great abundance. She has performed (and sometimes created) some of the most memorable roles in British theatre for over 30 years.
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