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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.
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The One Show
The Graham Norton Show
Inside No. 9
Star Wars: Visions
Dalziel & Pascoe
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
Mandy
The Hollow Crown
Timeshift
Black Mirror
Linda Green
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
Artsnight
Comedy Connections
Fairy Tales
Sunburn
Shameless
The Street
Clocking Off
All or Nothing
Wendell & Wild
Little Dorrit
The Theory of Everything
Messiah
Criminal Justice
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Room at the Top
Faith
The Falling
The Bisexual
The Dispatcher
Say Nothing
Peterloo
Three Girls
Rules of the Game
Men Who Sleep in Cars
Silk
The Village
Wonders of the Moon
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