
Maxine Peake
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Biography
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.
Known For

The Graham Norton Show

Inside No. 9

Star Wars: Visions

Dalziel & Pascoe

Mandy

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

The Hollow Crown

Timeshift

Black Mirror

Linda Green

Alan Bennett's Talking Heads

Clocking Off

Artsnight

Fairy Tales

Comedy Connections

Sunburn

Shameless

The Street

All or Nothing

Wendell & Wild

Little Dorrit

The Theory of Everything

Say Nothing

Criminal Justice

Messiah

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Room at the Top

Faith

Peterloo

The Falling

The Dispatcher

The Bisexual

Silk

Wonders of the Moon

Rules of the Game

Three Girls

Men Who Sleep in Cars
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