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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.
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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.
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
Comedy Connections
Fairy Tales
Sunburn
Shameless
The Street
All or Nothing
Wendell & Wild
The Theory of Everything
Little Dorrit
Say Nothing
Messiah
Criminal Justice
Room at the Top
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Falling
The Dispatcher
Peterloo
Faith
The Bisexual
Wonders of the Moon
Men Who Sleep in Cars
Three Girls
Silk
Rules of the Game
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