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Maxine Peake

Actress / Film Actress | * 07/14/1974 (49) | Westhoughton, Lancashire, England (United Kingdom (UK))
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Maxine Peake (born 14 July 1974) is an English actress and narrator. She is known for her roles as Twinkle in dinnerladies, a sitcom on BBC One (1998–2000), as Veronica Ball in Shameless, the comedy drama from Channel 4 (2004–2007), Martha Costello in the BBC One legal drama Silk (2011–2014), and Grace Middleton in the BBC One drama series The Village (2013–2014). In 2017, she starred in the Black Mirror episode "Metalhead". She has also played the title role in Hamlet, as well as the notorious serial killer Myra Hindley in See No Evil: The Moors Murders, the critically acclaimed 2006 dramatisation by ITV of the Moors murders. ()
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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.

Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Comedies | Documentaries

Known for these Movies & Shows

The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student J ...

The Theory of Everything

FSK: 0+ years

2014 | 3.9/5 | 2h 3min
Drama, Romance / Love
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A comedian uses her troubled past as material for her stand-up routine, trying to rise up through the comedy circuit by playing Northern England's working men's clubs. ...

Funny Cow

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2018 | 3.2/5 | 1h 43min
Comedy, Drama
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The story of a young group of siblings pretty much abandoned by their parents, surviving by their wits - and humor - on a rough Manchester council estate. Whilst they won't admit it, they need help an ...

Shameless

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2004 | 3.8/5 | 1h per episode
Comedy, Drama
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Movies with Maxine Peake as Actress(50)

as Anna Politkovskaya2023 Anna
as Tish Murtha (voice)2023 Tish
as Barbara2023 Dance First
as Narrator (voice)2022 Inner Polar Bear
as Self- Presenter2022 The Real Anne: Unfinished Business
as Irmgard Klaxon (voice)2022 Wendell & Wild
as Fanny Lye2021 Fanny Lye Deliver'd
2021 Where We Used to Meet
as Self - Narrator2020 The Great Mountain Sheep Gather
2019 Be Still My Beating Heart
as Friedrich Engels (voice)2018 Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels
as Elen2018 Gwen
as Funny Cow2018 Funny Cow
as Nellie2018 Peterloo
as Narrator (voice)2018 Wonders of the Moon
as Sarah2017 Men Who Sleep in Cars
2017 Cake
as Herself (Archive Footage)2017 Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods
as Emma2017 Unseen
2017 The Priest
as Narrator2017 Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle
as Rebekah Brooks2016 Red Top
as Titania2016 A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Eileen Lamont2015 The Falling
as Hamlet2015 Hamlet
as Elaine Mason2014 The Theory of Everything
as Charlotte2014 Keeping Rosy
as Vanetia2014 Run & Jump
as Angie2013 Svengali
as Celia2013 Keeping Up with the Joneses
as Mum2012 Rachael
as Isabel2012 Best Laid Plans
as Hazel Peaceful2012 Private Peaceful
as Maggie2011 DeafBlind
as Elly2010 Edge
as Anne Lister2010 The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
as Helen Marshall2009 Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
as Angela2008 Clubbed
as Joan Le Mesurier2008 Hancock & Joan
as herself2007 The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
as Marilyn Monroe Lookalike/Compere's Assistant2007 I Am Bob
as Tracey Temple2007 Confessions of a Diary Secretary
2006 The Madness of the Dance
as Linda2005 Faith
as Ticket Attendant2005 Frozen
as Pauline2004 Christmas Lights
as Party girl2002 All or Nothing
as Lulu (voice)2002 Hamilton Mattress
2000 Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
as Sharon1998 Girls' Night

TV Shows/Series with Maxine Peake as Actress(36)

as Anne Williams2022 Anne
as Sam Thompson2022 Rules of the Game
as Kalina Kalfus (voice)2021 Star Wars: Visions
as Miss Fozzard2020 Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
as Sadie2018 The Bisexual
as Sara Rowbotham2017 Three Girls
as herself2017 We Have Been Watching
as Self - Presenter2015 Artsnight
as Nadia2014 Inside No. 9
as Grace Middleton2013 The Village
as Dorothy 'Dol' Tearsheet2012 The Hollow Crown
as Alice Aisgill2012 Room at the Top
as Bella2011 Black Mirror
as Martha Costello2011 Silk
2009 Red Riding
as Miss Wade2008 Little Dorrit
as Elizabeth Lilburne2008 The Devil's Whore
2008 Fairy Tales
as herself2007 The Graham Norton Show
2006 The Street
as Myra Hindley2006 See No Evil: The Moors Murders
2004 Shameless
as Veronica Fisher2004 Shameless
2003 Comedy Connections
as Janice2003 Early Doors
as Self - Narrator2002 Timeshift
as Receptionist2001 Linda Green
2001 Messiah
as DS Vickie Clarke2001 Messiah
as Marie Leach2000 Clocking Off
1999 Sunburn
as Twinkle1998 Dinnerladies
as Marion Cretiss1997 Jonathan Creek
as Photocopy Assistant1996 Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
1996 Dalziel & Pascoe
1987 ChuckleVision

Movies with Maxine Peake as Crew(3)

Crew/Thanks2021 Doughnut
Production/Executive Producer2018 Funny Cow
Writing/Writer2017 The Priest

Full Name: Maxine Peake
Citizenship: United Kingdom (UK)
Born: Sunday, 07/14 1974 (July) in Westhoughton, Lancashire, England (United Kingdom (UK)) (current age: 49 years + 279 days)
Zodiac sign: Cancer (Chinese zodiac sign: Tiger)
Languages: English (EN)
Educated at: Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, University of Salford, Canon Slade School, Westhoughton High School
Maxine Peake frequently works together with these people:
Steve Pemberton (12x, Actor)
Reece Shearsmith (11x, Actor)
Thomas Clay (10x, Crew)
Victoria Wood (9x, Actress)
Paul Abbott (7x, Crew)
Julie Walters (6x, Actress)
Celia Imrie (6x, Actress)
Lee Ingleby (6x, Actor)
Tom Goodman-Hill (6x, Actor)
Yuki Igarashi (6x, Crew)
Benedict Cumberbatch (5x, Actor)
Carol Morley (5x, Crew)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:7055, Added: 03/23/2018, Last updated: 04/11/2024