Maxine Peake
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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CREDITS
PHOTOS
TV Series
dinnerladies
7.4
Early Doors
7.7
ChuckleVision
6.2
Jonathan Creek
7.507
Shameless
7.5
Comedy Connections
2
Dalziel & Pascoe
6.5
We Have Been Watching
0
Criminal Justice
7.63
Little Dorrit
7.806
Fairy Tales
0
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
3.7
The Street
7.7
Star Wars: Visions
7.157
Red Riding
6.5
Timeshift
7
The Village
7.5
Silk
7.594
Artsnight
0
Room at the Top
7.3
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
7.278
Messiah
7.229
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
8.1
Clocking Off
7.4
Rules of the Game
6.1
Sunburn
4
Three Girls
7.2
Art That Made Us
5.5
See No Evil: The Moors Murders
6.3
The Devil's Whore
6.932
Shameless
7.5
Black Mirror
8.287
The Graham Norton Show
7.185
Linda Green
7
Secret Life of the Safari Park
0
The Bisexual
6.904
Say Nothing
7.304
The Hollow Crown
7.4
Anne
7.031
Inside No. 9
8.004
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
7.5
The Dispatcher
0
Movies
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
0
Girls' Night
6.8
Where We Used to Meet
0
Dance First
7
Words of War
6.7
Clubbed
6.7
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
6.6
The Real Anne: Unfinished Business
0
I Am Bob
7.5
Christmas Lights
5.1
Tish
9
Edge
6
Wendell & Wild
6.6
Woken
5.8
Svengali
5.3
Run & Jump
6.019
Hancock & Joan
4.9
The Theory of Everything
7.842
Confessions of a Diary Secretary
0
Keeping Rosy
5.6
Something Out of Nothing
0
Surfaces
0
Lapushka!
0
Judy
0
Strange Weather
0
I Wish For You
0
It's Me
0
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
6.923
The Falling
5.131
Inner Polar Bear
0
Hamlet
8.2
The Great Mountain Sheep Gather
0
The Madness of the Dance
6.5
Generation '66
7
Faith
0
Red Top
5.3
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
6.5
Choked Up
7
Private Peaceful
6.6
Bike Squad
0
All or Nothing
7.1
A Midsummer Night's Dream
5.231
Hamilton Mattress
6.3
Funny Cow
6.3
Art Matters
10
Keeping Up with the Joneses
5.9
Best Laid Plans
5.6
Frozen
5.7
I Swear
0
Fanny Lye Deliver'd
6.5
Would Like To Meet
10
Imaginary Friend
8
The Heart Fails Without Warning
0
Peterloo
6.796
Men Who Sleep in Cars
0
Wonders of the Moon
6.6
Cake
5.3
DeafBlind
0
Gwen
5.41
The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca
0
The Priest
0
Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle
4
The Fear of Trilogy
0
The Shuttleworths
0
Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods
7.167
Twisting My Melon
0
Be Still My Beating Heart
1
Unseen
0
Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels
0.5
Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough
0
Quiet on Set: The Class Division in the Film Industry?
0