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Maxine Peake

  • Born July 14, 1974
  • Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, UK
  • 52 years old

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 …

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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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Acting (106)

Elaine Mason

Bella

Dottie

Kalina Kalfus (voice)

Irmgard Klaxon (voice)

Nadia

Helen Marshall

Eileen Lamont

Party girl

Nellie

Veronica Fisher

Older Dolours Price

Miss Wade

Doll Tearsheet

Angela

Marion Cretiss

Jenna Reid

Elen

Fanny Lye

Anne Lister

Martha Costello QC

Helen

Elizabeth Lilburne

Sara Rowbotham

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Susan Blower

Hazel Peaceful

Myra Hindley

Twinkle

Anna Politkovskaya

Funny Cow

Angie

Sadie

Isabel

Helen

Juliet Miller

Dr Allison Laurie

Vanetia

Barbara

Janice

DS Vickie Clarke

Grace Middleton

Anne Williams

Ticket Attendant

Photocopy Assistant

Charlotte

Alice Aisgill

Titania

Sam Thompson

Trixie Fletcher

Marie Leach

Sharon

Pauline

Miss Fozzard

Lulu (voice)

Receptionist

Hamlet

Celia

Sue

Narrator (voice)

Joan Le Mesurier

Narrator

Rebekah Brooks

Fiona Lacey

Elly

Marilyn Monroe Lookalike/Compere's Assistant

Friedrich Engels (voice)

Narrator

Linda

Narrator

Pauline

Tish Murtha (voice)

George's Mum

WPC Kate McFay

Tracey Temple

Maggie

Cindy Mellor

Helen

Grown Up Mia

Narrator (voice)

Miriam

Judy

Scoot Piccolo

Sarah

Narrator

Jane

Alix

The Englishwoman (voice)

Mother

The Englishwoman (voice)

Helen Bach

Emma

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Executive production

Executive production

Directing (2)

Writing (1)

Crew (1)

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Appearances (16)

Self (archive footage)

Self - Guest

Self

Self - Narrator

Self - Actrice (Rules of the Game, Anne)

Self

Self

Self

Self - Narrator

Self - Presenter

Self

Self

Self

Self

Self- Presenter

Self