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Maxine Peake
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.
As actor
Becoming Victoria Wood
Words of War
I Swear
Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough
Quiet on Set: The Class Division in the Film Industry?
The Occupant of the Room
Laundreams
Woken
Art Matters
Dance First
Tish
Choked Up
The Real Anne: Unfinished Business
Wendell & Wild
Something Out of Nothing
Lapushka!
Inner Polar Bear
Where We Used to Meet
Surfaces
It's Me
The Great Mountain Sheep Gather
Judy
Fanny Lye Deliver'd
Be Still My Beating Heart
Funny Cow
Peterloo
Wonders of the Moon
Gwen
The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca
Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels
