FrameThrower · Actors · Alison Steadman
Alison Steadman
2 films · 246 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1990–2024
Born 26 August 1946 · Liverpool, England, UK
Alison Steadman is an English actor. She won the 1991 National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress for the Mike Leigh (her husband 1973-2001) film Life is Sweet, and the 1993 Olivier Award for Best Actress for her role as Mari in the original production of The Rise and Fall of Little Voice. In a 2007 Channel 4 poll, the "50 Greatest Actors" voted for by other actors, she was ranked No. 42.
Steadman made her professional stage debut in 1968 and went on to establish her career in Mike Leigh's 1970s TV plays Nuts in May (1976) and Abigail's Party (1977).…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 246 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1990–2024
- Officer of the Order of the British Empire
- Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress
How their films are shot
Measured across 246 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Alison takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 2 films we hold, 56% of their frames are night, 45% low key — the look of the work Alison takes.
Time of day
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 246 frames from Alison Steadman's 2 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.