Mike Leigh
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Mike Leigh is an English screenwriter, producer, director and former actor with a film, theatre, and television career spanning more than 60 years. His accolades include prizes at the Cannes Film Fest
Leigh in 2021
Leigh at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival
Alison Steadman
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Alison Steadman is an English actress. She received the 1977 Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress for Abigail's Party, the 1991 National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress for t
Mike Leigh
…scholarship to RADA. Initially trained as an actor at RADA, Leigh started to hone his directing skills at East 15 Acting School, where he met the actress Alison Steadman. Leigh responded negatively to RADA's agenda, finding himself being taught how to "laugh, cry and snog" for weekly rep purposes, and became a sullen…
Steadman during a recording of You'll Have Had Your Tea for BBC Radio 4 in 2006