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Maxine Peake
Catalogued films 77Director 2Actor 76
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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0/75- OBObsession: The Beryl Burton Story
- CRCrackula
Becoming Victoria Wood
Laundreams
The Occupant of the Room
Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough
I Swear
Quiet on Set: The Class Division in the Film Industry?
Words of War
Art Matters
Tish
Dance First
Choked Up
Woken
Wendell & Wild- INInner Polar Bear
Lapushka!
Something Out of Nothing
The Real Anne: Unfinished Business
Where We Used to Meet
Surfaces
The Great Mountain Sheep Gather
It's Me
Be Still My Beating Heart
Judy
The Delivered
Peterloo
Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels
Wonders of the Moon
Gwen
The Priest
Men Who Sleep in Cars
Cake
Unseen
Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle
Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods
Funny Cow
Generation '66
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Red Top
I Wish For You
The Falling
Strange Weather
The Shuttleworths
Hamlet
The Theory of Everything
Keeping Rosy
Keeping Up with the Joneses- THThe Heart Fails Without Warning
Run & Jump
Svengali
Best Laid Plans
Private Peaceful
DeafBlind- IMImaginary Friend
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
Edge
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
Hancock & Joan
Bike Squad
Clubbed- WOWould Like To Meet
- I I Am Bob
- COConfessions of a Diary Secretary
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
The Fear of Trilogy
The Madness of the Dance
Faith
Frozen
Christmas Lights
All or Nothing
Hamilton Mattress
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
Girls' Night- THThe Bright Side Running Club