Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1974-07-14
Place of Birth
Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, UK
Maxine Peake
Biography
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
as Veronica Fisher
as Martha Costello QC
as Dottie
as Elaine Mason
as Grace Middleton
as Older Dolours Price
as Miss Wade
as Twinkle
as Bella
as Anna Politkovskaya
as Helen Marshall
as Funny Cow
as Jenna Reid
as Fanny Lye
as Rebekah Brooks
as Isabel
as Eileen Lamont
as Vanetia
as Nellie
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