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