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