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Alison Steadman

August 2023

  • Alison Steadman and Larry Lamb pictured together at a garden fence.

    TV review
    Alison & Larry: Billericay to Barry review – the dullest celebrity travel show of all time

    Are Gavin and Stacey co-stars Alison Steadman and Larry Lamb even friends? You can’t tell from this mind-bendingly banal failure of a series. Who is responsible for this flop?

March 2023

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    The reader interview
    Alison Steadman: ‘We filmed the sex scene in the New Forest, so it was quite prickly’

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    The reader interview
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October 2022

  • Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara in Cannes, 2015

    Portraits by Chris Floyd: from Sheridan Smith to civil rights icon Claudette Colvin – in pictures

    In his latest book, Not Just Pictures to be published by Reel Art Press, the celebrated British photographer shares more than 250 images of extraordinary people: Hollywood stars, artists, actors, athletes and musicians. Here, he tells the stories behind some of those shots

July 2022

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    This much I know
    Alison Steadman: ‘I do enjoy a gin and tonic in the evening’

    The actor, 75, describes working with Tom Jones, her fear of flying and awe at the wonders of nature

April 2022

  • My family and other animals … (From left) Jude Morgan-Collie, Mica Ricketts, Alison Steadman, Freya Parks, Jim Howick, Tom Basden, Katherine Parkinson.

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: Alison Steadman is an interfering grandma in new BBC sitcom

    Katherine Parkinson also navigates life’s everyday mundanities in Here We Go. Plus: Not Going Out heads to the woods in search of drugs. Here’s what to watch this evening

October 2020

  • Victoria Hamilton, right, and Susannah Fielding in Life, ‘the best soap opera ever devised’

    The week in TV: Life; The Comey Rule; Honour; Brave New World – review

    Mike Bartlett fashions a superior soap, while recent US political history rears its Trumpian head

September 2020

  • Gold wedding rings

    Brief letters
    Thirty invitations to a shotgun wedding

    Brief letters: Alison Steadman | Tory resignations | British summer time | Rishi Sunak | Life outside central London | Covid restrictions
  • Nicely observed … Dave Johns and Alison Steadman in 23 Walks.

    23 Walks review – dog-lovers follow the path to romance

    In this warm and kindly drama, Alison Steadman and Dave Johns play a couple brought together by their daily perambulations with pooches
  • Alison Steadman: ‘If this was 50 years ago, when all we had was a landline and it was expensive, how would we all have coped?’

    Alison Steadman: 'I never thought I would live in such strange and scary times'

    The actor is back from lockdown with two new dramas. She talks about her 50-year career, Boris Johnson and the joy of miaowing at John Cleese, while James Corden, Julia Davis and Mike Leigh pay tribute

March 2020

  • Jennifer Saunders as Madame Arcati in Blithe Spirit at the Duke of Yorks

    The many incarnations of Noël Coward’s Blithe Spirit – in pictures

    With Jennifer Saunders playing Madame Arcati in London, and a new film adaptation with Judi Dench on the way, we look back at productions starring Angela Lansbury, Joanna Lumley and many more

April 2019

  • A Skylark sings from a post at Thurrock Nature Park

    Birdsong inspires artists, musicians and poets. The world should listen

    Letters: As we approach International Dawn Chorus Day, Alison Steadman, Grayson Perry and 76 others say nature is falling silent and the UK must take a leading role in its recovery

December 2018

  • Sheridan Smith and Alison Steadman in Care.

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: Care; The Good Place; Billy Connolly’s Ultimate World Tour; Dynasties – review

  • Sheridan Smith as Jenny, right, looking after her mother Mary, played by Alison Steadman, in the drama Care.

    Jimmy McGovern: ‘We can’t dodge the issue of care for the elderly any longer

October 2018

  • Girl allowed? The cast of Butterfly.

    Representation or demonisation? How Anna Friel’s new drama shows the transitioning experience

    ITV’s Butterfly, which centres on the life of a transgender child, is the latest suburban family drama to skewer the genre. Does it succeed?

June 2018

  • Alison Steadman

    The balance
    Alison Steadman: ‘As you get older, learning lines gets harder’

    The actor on doing puzzles in bed, her Liverpool roots and watching wildlife

February 2018

  • Gavin and Stacey cast.

    Jump the shark
    When good TV goes bad: how becoming mainstream juggernaut killed Gavin & Stacey

    It was Gav’n’Stace that propelled James Corden to intergalactic domination but the when the show left BBC Three, so did its tight focus and cult status

April 2017

  • John Cleese

    John Cleese to appear in his first BBC sitcom since Fawlty Towers

    Monty Python actor, who vowed never to work with the corporation again, will star alongside Alison Steadman in Edith

June 2016

  • Alison Steadman and Myra Frances

    BBC to stream 1974 show with first lesbian kiss on UK television

    Girl, starring Alison Steadman, tells the story of an affair between army officers and is now available after 40 years

April 2016

  • Left to right: Alison Steadman, Polly Hemingway, Jonathan Pryce, and Michael Angelis in The Foursome, 1972.

    Theatre blog
    Liverpool Everyman's resident actors could become local heroes

    Gemma Bodinetz’s plans for a multi-skilled, community-based company with a 50:50 gender split is a bold new vision of the theatre’s 70s rep model
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