Maxine Peake

Maxine Peake

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Birthday: 
14 July 1974, Westhoughton, Bolton, Lancashire, England, UK
Height: 
170 cm
Maxine Peake is an English stage, radio, film and television actress, 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 accomplish... Show more »
Maxine Peake is an English stage, radio, film and television actress, 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.Peake has appeared in a number of television and stage productions including Victoria Wood's Dinnerladies, Channel 4's Shameless, in the lead role of barrister Martha Costello in the BBC's legal drama Silk and alongside John Simm in the BBC drama The Village, depicting life in a Derbyshire village during the First World War. Following career advice from Victoria Wood, between the two series of Dinnerladies, Peake lost so much weight that an explanation had to be written into the script for her character, Twinkle.Peake portrayed the Moors murderer Myra Hindley in See No Evil: The Moors Murders. Broadcast in May 2006, it was met with mixed reactions; soon after this Peake announced that she was leaving Shameless. January 2009 saw Peake appear in her first major feature film role, as Angela, in the film Clubbed. Show less «

Maxine Peake's FILMOGRAPHY

Mandy - Season 3

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Panorama - Season 72

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Black Mirror - Season 6

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The Graham Norton Show - Season 31

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Panorama - Season 71

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Star Wars: Visions - Season 2

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Inside No.9 - Season 8

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Inside No.9 - Season 7

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The Graham Norton Show - Season 30

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Anne - Season 1

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Mandy - Season 2

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Wendell and Wild

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Rules of the Game - Season 1

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Inside No.9 - Season 6

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The Graham Norton Show - Season 29

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Star Wars: Visions - Season 1 [Audio: Eng]

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Inside No.9 - Season 5

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The Graham Norton Show - Season 28

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The Graham Norton Show - Season 27

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Alan Bennetts Talking Heads - Season 1

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Mandy - Season 1

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Black Mirror - Season 5

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The Graham Norton Show - Season 26

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Maxine Peake'S roles

Hazel Peaceful
Hazel Peaceful
Veronica
Veronica
Herself - Guest
Herself - Guest
Herself - Guest
Herself - Guest