Alison Peebles

Alison Peebles (born 1953) is a Scottish actress, director, and writer in theatre, film, and television. She is a co-founder of Communicado, a Scottish theatre company. Early life Peebles trained as a painter at Edinburgh College of Art. Career In 1983, she co-founded Communicado, a Scottish theatre company, with Gerry Mulgrew and Rob Pickavance. Peebles portrayed Lady Macbeth in Michael Boyd's celebrated 1993 production of Macbeth at the Tron Theatre in Glasgow, Scotland. She directed the film AfterLife, which won the Standard Life Audience Award at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2003.