Alison SteadmanFilmography

Fanny Hill

Actors: Rebecca Night, Samantha Bond, Alison Steadman, Philip Jackson, Hugo Speer

Synopsis: Bridget Jones's Diary screenwriter Andrew Davies adapts John Clelend's controversial 18th Century novel for the screen in this erotic drama starring screen newcomer Rebecca Night as the mischievous, titular nymph. Upon losing her parents to smallpox, wholesome naïf Fanny Hill begins the steady Read More

Gavin & Stacey: Series 01

Actors: Mathew Horne, Joanna Page, Ruth Jones, James Corden, Rob Brydon

Confetti

Actors: Martin Freeman, Jessica Stevenson, Stephen Mangan, Meredith MacNeill, Robert Webb

Synopsis: Three couples endure the living hell that is the happiest day of their lives in this comic mockumentary. Confetti is the United Kingdom's most prestigious wedding magazine, and publisher Antoni (Jimmy Carr) and editor Vivien (Felicity Montagu) have made a career out of documenting the Read More

Chunky Monkey

Actors: David Schofield, Nicola Stapleton, Alison Steadman, David Threlfall, Stephen Mangan

The Life and Death of Peter Sellers

Actors: Geoffrey Rush, Charlize Theron, Emily Watson, John Lithgow, Miriam Margolyes

Synopsis: The often-troubled life of one of the greatest comic actors in the history of the British cinema provides the basis for this biopic. Peter Sellers (Geoffrey Rush) was raised by a domineering mother (Miriam Margolyes) and meek father (Peter Vaughan), and at an early age discovered he liked to hide Read More

Happy Now

Actors: Ioan Gruffudd, Susan Lynch, Om Puri, Emmy Rossum, Paddy Considine

Synopsis: New wrinkles are added to an old crime when a spitting image of the victim shows up in this dark comedy. Pen-y-wig is a small town along the southern coast of Wales where, in 1988, Jenny Thomas (Emmy Rossum) won first prize in a local beauty contest. On her way home, Jenny began having car Read More

Secrets and Lies

Actors: Brenda Blethyn, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Phyllis Logan, Timothy Spall, Claire Rushbrook

Synopsis: A family is forced to confront the personal issues they've been avoiding for years in this powerful, realistic drama. Cynthia (Brenda Blethyn) is a working-class British woman whose life has been a long series of painful disappointments. She's single with no romantic prospects and a dead-end job Read More

Karaoke

Actors: Albert Finney, Richard E. Grant, Julie Christie, Alison Steadman, Hywel Bennett

Synopsis: The line between reality and fiction becomes increasingly blurred as an ailing screenwriter struggles with a story that seems to come to life before his eyes. A self-destructive loaner whose battle with pancreatic cancer has left him embittered and in great pain, Daniel Feeld (Albert Finney) Read More

Pride and Prejudice

Actors: Colin Firth, Jennifer Ehle, Susannah Harker, Crispin Bonham Carter, Adrian Lukis

Synopsis: Jane Austen's classic novel is brought to the screen once again in this intelligent and witty romantic drama. Elizabeth Bennett (Jennifer Ehle) is one of five sisters living on a British country estate in the 1800s. At a time and place in which matrimony is considered a woman's logical goal in Read More

The Wimbledon Poisoner

Actors: Robert Lindsay, Alison Steadman, Philip Jackson, Catherine Schell, Paul Butterworth

Synopsis: This two-part British miniseries chronicled the misfortunes of meek solicitor Henry Farr (Robert Lindsay), trapped in dead-end suburban domesticity and saddled with a feminist virago of a wife named Elinor (Alison Steadman). Finally able to stand no more, Henry plotted to do away with Elinor by Read More

Blame It on the Bellboy

Actors: Dudley Moore, Bryan Brown, Richard Griffiths, Andreas Katsulas, Patsy Kensit

Synopsis: Brevity may be the soul of wit, but that doesn't make the 79-minute Blame It on the Bellboy any funnier. Orton (Dudley Moore) is an ambitious real estate agent. Horton (Richard Griffiths) is a middle-aged married man looking for extracurricular activity via a dating service. And Lawton (Bryan Brown Read More

The Misadventures of Mr. Wilt

Actors: Griff Rhys Jones, Mel Smith, Alison Steadman, Diana Quick, Jeremy Clyde

Synopsis: Produced for London Weekend Television, Wilt is based on the novel of the same name by Tom Sharpe. Griff Rhys Jones and Mel Smith, stars of the internationally popular TV series Not Necessarily the News, head the cast as Henry Wilt and Inspector Flint. Though master of his own destiny on the Read More

Life Is Sweet

Actors: Alison Steadman, Jim Broadbent, Timothy Spall, Claire Skinner, Jane Horrocks

Synopsis: Mike Leigh's situation comedy about a lower middle-class family in the London suburbs is a slice-of-life chronicle that subtly reveals the pain and rage underneath the surface of day-to-day conventions. The youngish parents, Wendy (Alison Steadman) and Andy (Jim Broadbent) live with their Read More

Tartuffe

Synopsis: Tartuffe, French playwright Moliere's 16th-century satire of religious quackery, is given right and proper treatment by the Royal Shakespeare Company in this videotaped staging. Anthony Sher plays the title role, a haughty, self-righteous phony who inveigles his way into a wealthy household. Not Read More

Shirley Valentine

Actors: Pauline Collins, Tom Conti, Alison Steadman, Julia McKenzie, Joanna Lumley

Synopsis: Since its London and Broadway stage debut, playwright Willy Russell's Shirley Valentine has proven an excellent showcase for any number of talented actresses (Loretta Swit won the 1989 Sarah Siddons Award for her work in the Chicago production). In the film version of Shirley Valentine, Pauline Collins Read More

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

Actors: John Neville, Sarah Polley, Eric Idle, Jonathan Pryce, Uma Thurman, Oliver Reed, Charles McKeown, Sting, Robin Williams, Valentina Cortese

Synopsis: Director Terry Gilliam adroitly applies his Monty Python sensibilities upon the "career" of famed German prevaricator Baron von Munchausen. Played herein by John Neville, the baron is seen quelling a war that he himself started, flying into the stratosphere on the back of a cannonball, ballooning Read More

Virtuoso

Actors: Alfred Molina, Alison Steadman

Synopsis: British character actor Alfred Molina contributes another top-rank characterization in Virtuoso. Molina essays the role of real-life concert pianist John Ogden. The film touches briefly upon Ogden's performing genius, then takes a dark turn by concentrating on his descent into mental illness. Alison Steadman Read More

Stormy Monday

Actors: Melanie Griffith, Tommy Lee Jones, Sting, Sean Bean, Prunella Gee, James Cosmo

Synopsis: Stormy Monday is a four-person character study in which style is all that matters. This tautly constructed, deftly executed crime thriller is set in economically depressed Newcastle England. Sting plays Finney, a relatively honest Newcastle jazz-club owner who crosses the path of crass American Read More

Clockwise

Actors: John Cleese, Alison Steadman, Penelope Wilton, Stephen Moore, Joan Hickson, Sharon Maiden

Synopsis: John Cleese's knack for mining hilarity from the growing frustration of a dignified gentleman is fully exploited in the British comedy Clockwise. Cleese portrays Brian Stimpson, a perfectionist English headmaster who has been selected to make an important presentation before a group of his peers. Read More

The Singing Detective

Actors: Michael Gambon, Patrick Malahide, Janet Suzman, Alison Steadman, Jim Carter

Synopsis: With the notable exception of Pennies From Heaven, The Singing Detective was the best-known TV miniseries project of the iconoclastic, darkly humored Dennis Potter. A reworking of Potter's first novel Hide and Seek, the six-part series starred Michael Gambon as crime novelist Philip E. Marlow. Read More

Coming Through

Synopsis: The romantic entanglements of renowned author D.H. Lawrence (Kenneth Branaugh) and Frieda Von Richthofen (Helen Mirren) become intertwined with the life of a man in present day who is obsessed with the noted writer. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide Read More

A Private Function

Actors: Michael Palin, Maggie Smith, Liz Smith, Denholm Elliott, Richard Griffiths

Synopsis: A British couple's attempts to circumvent local food-rationing regulations trigger a chaotic series of events in this satirical comedy set in post-World War II England. The couple's scheme centers on a massive hog which has been illegally raised by a local farmer. Seeing a chance to capitalize on Read More

Number One

Actors: Mel Smith, Alison Steadman, P.H. Moriarty, Phil Daniels

Synopsis: In this conventional, formulaic tale about a nonchalant snooker (pool, British style) hustler who is conned into competing in a national championship, good ensemble acting carries the story beyond its predictable evolution. Bob Geldof is Harry (Flash) Gordon, the snooker player who hustles games Read More

Champions

Actors: John Hurt, Edward Woodward, Jan Francis, Peter Barkworth

Synopsis: John Hurt plays the British jockey Bob Champion in this true story of how Champion overcame cancer and the rigors of chemotherapy for an impressive personal and professional comeback. Just as Champion is in the middle of a vacation in Kentucky, he finds out he has cancer, and, like others before Read More

Kipperbang

Actors: John Albasiny, Alison Steadman, Garry Cooper, Abigail Crittenden, Maurice Dee

Synopsis: The romantic hurdles experienced by the teen set at a British school are juxtaposed with the same type of difficulties experienced by their elders in this pat, adolescent view of life and love by director Michael Apted for a British TV series called First Love. The English teacher (Alison Read More

Abigail's Party

Synopsis: Abigail's Party originally aired as part of the BBC's influential Play for Today series. Writer/director Mike Leigh was responsible for several productions for the series, as was Dennis Potter (The Singing Detective). This filmed play was developed the same way most of Leigh's work has been -- in Read More

Nuts in May

Synopsis: Keith (Roger Sloman) and Candice Marie (Alison Steadman) take a trip to a campsite in the English countryside. They're folk-singing vegetarian types, but Keith is very controlling, and Candice Marie is manipulative as well, in her own childlike way. Keith is also very anal, taking down every Read More

The Wackers

Actors: Ken Jones, Sheila Fay, Alison Steadman, Keith Chegwin, Pearl Hackney

Synopsis: Ken Jones starred in this British sitcom as ne'er-do-well Billy Clarkson who, after being released from jail, returned to his home in Liverpool. Determined to go straight, Billy first tackled the problem of riding herd over his large and boisterous family. Not only were his relatives evenly Read More

Hard Labour

Actors: Liz Smith, Alison Steadman, Clifford Kershaw, Polly Hemingway, Vanessa Harris

Synopsis: Mrs. Thornley (Liz Smith) leads a rather miserable existence in Salford. She lives with her husband, Jim (Clifford Kershaw), a night custodian at a toy factory, and their grown daughter, Ann (Polly Hemingway). Mrs. Thornley is a maid who works for an imperious upper-middle class woman, Mrs. Stone Read More

Z Cars [TV Series]

Actors: Stratford Johns, Frank Windsor, James Ellis, Dudley Foster, Brian Blessed

Synopsis: The incredibly durable cop show Z Cars (pronounced "Zed Cars") was one of the great guilty pleasures of British television -- a program which everyone watched, but no one would admit to watching. Created by Troy Kennedy Martin, the series focused on a "typical" crime-ridden Liverpool police Read More