Maxine Peake
Born: 1974-07-14
• 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.
Filmography
Becoming Victoria Wood
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
Peterloo
The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca
Gwen
Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels
Funny Cow
Wonders of the Moon
The Priest
Men Who Sleep in Cars
Cake
Unseen
Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle
Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods
Generation '66
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Red Top
I Wish For You
The Falling
Hamlet
Strange Weather
The Shuttleworths
The Theory of Everything
Keeping Rosy
Run & Jump
Keeping Up with the Joneses
Svengali
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The Heart Fails Without Warning
Private Peaceful
Best Laid Plans
DeafBlind
Edge
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Imaginary Friend
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
Clubbed
Hancock & Joan
Bike Squad
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Would Like To Meet
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I Am Bob
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Confessions of a Diary Secretary
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
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The Madness of the Dance
The Fear of Trilogy
Frozen
Faith
Christmas Lights
All or Nothing
Hamilton Mattress
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
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Girls' Night
Twisting My Melon