Alison Stephens (1 March 1970 – 10 October 2010) was an English classical mandolin player and film musician.
[1] Stephens was born in Bickley, Kent, and educated at James Allen's Girls' School and Haileybury and began playing the mandolin at the age of seven, inspired by her father, who had played the instrument during the Second World War.
She played for opera and ballet companies and was a performer on the scores of films such as The Queen, The Golden Compass, Captain Corelli's Mandolin and Fantastic Mr. Fox.
After undergoing a second round of treatment in 2009 with a new form of radiation therapy, tomotherapy, she made a full recovery and spent much of the last two years of her life fundraising for cancer charities.
In June 2010, the cancer returned and she died at the Arthur Rank Hospice in Cambridge on 10 October that year.