Maxine Peake

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...

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The 50 Greatest Television Dramas

As Self

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Girls' Night

As Sharon

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Where We Used to Meet

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Dance First

As Barbara

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Words of War

As Anna Politkovskaya

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Clubbed

As Angela

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The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister

As Anne Lister

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The Real Anne: Unfinished Business

As Self- Presenter

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I Am Bob

As Marilyn Monroe Lookalike/Compere's Assistant

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Christmas Lights

As Pauline

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Tish

As Tish Murtha (voice)

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Edge

As Elly

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Wendell & Wild

As Irmgard Klaxon (voice)

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Woken

As Helen

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Svengali

As Angie

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Run & Jump

As Vanetia

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Hancock & Joan

As Joan Le Mesurier

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The Theory of Everything

As Elaine Mason

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Confessions of a Diary Secretary

As Tracey Temple

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Keeping Rosy

As Charlotte

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Something Out of Nothing

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Surfaces

As Alix

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Lapushka!

As Scoot Piccolo

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Judy

As Judy

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Strange Weather

As Jane

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I Wish For You

As Grown Up Mia

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It's Me

As Miriam

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Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980

As Helen Marshall

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The Falling

As Eileen Lamont

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Inner Polar Bear

As Narrator (voice)

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Hamlet

As Hamlet

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The Great Mountain Sheep Gather

As Self - Narrator

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The Madness of the Dance

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Generation '66

As Narrator

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Faith

As Linda

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Red Top

As Rebekah Brooks

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Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings

As Self

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Choked Up

As Fiona Lacey

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Private Peaceful

As Hazel Peaceful

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Bike Squad

As WPC Kate McFay

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All or Nothing

As Party girl

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A Midsummer Night's Dream

As Titania

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Hamilton Mattress

As Lulu (voice)

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Funny Cow

As Funny Cow

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Art Matters

As Self

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Keeping Up with the Joneses

As Celia

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Best Laid Plans

As Isabel

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Frozen

As Ticket Attendant

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I Swear

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Fanny Lye Deliver'd

As Fanny Lye

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Would Like To Meet

As George's Mum

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Imaginary Friend

As Pauline

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The Heart Fails Without Warning

As Mother

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Peterloo

As Nellie

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Men Who Sleep in Cars

As Sarah

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Wonders of the Moon

As Narrator (voice)

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Cake

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DeafBlind

As Maggie

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Gwen

As Elen

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The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca

As Herself

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The Priest

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Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle

As Narrator

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The Fear of Trilogy

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The Shuttleworths

As Helen Bach

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Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods

As Self (archive footage)

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Twisting My Melon

As Linda Ryder

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Be Still My Beating Heart

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Unseen

As Emma

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Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels

As Friedrich Engels (voice)

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Dinnerladies

As Twinkle

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Early Doors

As Janice

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ChuckleVision

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Jonathan Creek

As Marion Cretiss

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Shameless

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Comedy Connections

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Dalziel & Pascoe

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We Have Been Watching

As Self

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Criminal Justice

As Juliet Miller

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Little Dorrit

As Miss Wade

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Fairy Tales

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The Alan Titchmarsh Show

As Self

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The Street

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Star Wars: Visions

As Kalina Kalfus (voice)

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Red Riding

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Timeshift

As Self - Narrator

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The Village

As Grace Middleton

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Silk

As Martha Costello

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Artsnight

As Self - Presenter

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Room at the Top

As Alice Aisgill

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Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

As Photocopy Assistant

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Messiah

As DS Vickie Clarke

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Alan Bennett's Talking Heads

As Miss Fozzard

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Clocking Off

As Marie Leach

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Rules of the Game

As Sam Thompson

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Sunburn

As Sue

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Three Girls

As Sara Rowbotham

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Art That Made Us

As Self - Actrice (Rules of the Game, Anne)

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See No Evil: The Moors Murders

As Myra Hindley

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The Devil's Whore

As Elizabeth Lilburne

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Black Mirror

As Bella

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The Graham Norton Show

As Self

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Linda Green

As Receptionist

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Secret Life of the Safari Park

As Narrator

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The Bisexual

As Sadie

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Say Nothing

As Older Dolours Price

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The Hollow Crown

As Doll Tearsheet

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Anne

As Anne Williams

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Inside No. 9

As Nadia