Maxine Peake
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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.Read full biography
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Secret Life of the Safari Park (2024), The Haunted Season (2024), Rules of the Game (2022), Art That Made Us (2022), Alan Bennett's Talking Heads (2020), The Bisexual (2018), Dinnerladies Diaries (2018), We Have Been Watching (2017), Three Girls (2017), Artsnight (2015), The Village (2013), Room at the Top (2012), Red Riding (2009), Criminal Justice (2008), Little Dorrit (2008), The Devil's Whore (2008), Fairy Tales (2008), The Street (2006), See No Evil: The Moors Murders (2006), Early Doors (2003), Comedy Connections (2003), Timeshift (2002), Messiah (2001), Linda Green (2001), Clocking Off (2000), Sunburn (1999), dinnerladies (1998), The Dispatcher, First Day on Earth