Maxine Peake
Born:
1974-07-14
From:
Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, UK
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.
Acting
Becoming Victoria Wood
Laundreams
The Occupant of the Room
Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough
I Swear
Quiet on Set: The Class Division in the Film Industry?
Words of War
Art Matters
Woken
Tish
Dance First
Choked Up
Wendell & Wild
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Inner Polar Bear
Lapushka!
Something Out of Nothing
The Real Anne: Unfinished Business
Where We Used to Meet
Surfaces
The Great Mountain Sheep Gather
It's Me
Fanny Lye Deliver'd
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Be Still My Beating Heart
Judy
