Maxine Peake
Acting
Born 1974-07-14
Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, UK
122 credits
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Maxine Peake (born 14 July 1974) is an English stage, radio, film and television actress, playwright, producer, director and political activist, who made her name as Twinkle in Victoria Wood's sitcom Dinnerladies. She has since played Veronica in Channel 4's Manchester-based drama series Shameless, barrister Martha Costello in the BBC legal drama Silk and Grace Middleton in The Village. She is also an accomplished stage actress, having played the title role in Hamlet, and had a role in the 2014 film The Theory of Everything. In 2018 she played the lead in the film Funny Cow and had a starring role in Mike Leigh's epic Peterloo, a film very close to her heart.
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Filmography
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Acting
53 credits
The Graham Norton Show
Black Mirror
The One Show
Shameless
Star Wars: Visions
I Swear
Inside No. 9
Silk
Fairy Tales
Jonathan Creek
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
The Hollow Crown
Timeshift
Bait
Say Nothing
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
The Theory of Everything
The Village
Mandy
Little Dorrit
Wendell & Wild
Criminal Justice
dinnerladies
All or Nothing
Clocking Off
Messiah
The Devil's Whore
Early Doors
The Bisexual
Sunburn
Linda Green
Words of War
Three Girls
Anne
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
Room at the Top
Red Top
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
Peterloo
Dance First
Artsnight
Art That Made Us
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
Dinnerladies Diaries
Funny Cow
Rules of the Game
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
The Falling
Run & Jump
Fanny Lye Deliver'd
Private Peaceful
We Have Been Watching
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ChuckleVision
The Street
Comedy Connections
Red Riding
Last Seen
Laundreams
Be Still My Beating Heart
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