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.
Known For
108 titles
Black Mirror
The Graham Norton Show
Star Wars: Visions
Shameless
The One Show
Inside No. 9
Silk
I Swear
Dalziel & Pascoe
Jonathan Creek
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
The Hollow Crown
Bait
Mandy
Timeshift
ChuckleVision
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
Say Nothing
The Theory of Everything
Clocking Off
The Village
Messiah
The Street
Sunburn
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