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Maxine Peake
Acting
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.
BODY OF WORK
Maxine Peake's Filmography
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Crackula
Becoming Victoria Wood
as Self
Laundreams
The Occupant of the Room
as The Englishwoman (voice)
Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough
as Narrator
I Swear
as Dottie
Quiet on Set: The Class Division in the Film Industry?
as Self
Words of War
as Anna Politkovskaya
Art Matters
as Self
Woken
as Helen
Tish
as Tish Murtha (voice)
Dance First
as Barbara
Choked Up
as Fiona Lacey
Wendell & Wild
as Irmgard Klaxon (voice)
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Inner Polar Bear
as Narrator (voice)
Lapushka!
as Scoot Piccolo
Something Out of Nothing
The Real Anne: Unfinished Business
as Self- Presenter
Where We Used to Meet
Surfaces
as Alix
The Great Mountain Sheep Gather
as Self - Narrator
It's Me
as Miriam
Fanny Lye Deliver'd
as Fanny Lye
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Be Still My Beating Heart
Judy
as Judy
Peterloo
as Nellie
The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca
as Self
Gwen
as Elen
Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels
as Friedrich Engels (voice)
Funny Cow
as Funny Cow
Wonders of the Moon
as Narrator (voice)
The Priest
Men Who Sleep in Cars
as Sarah
Cake
Unseen
as Emma
Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle
as Narrator
Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods
as Self (archive footage)
Generation '66
as Narrator
A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Titania
Red Top
as Rebekah Brooks
I Wish For You
as Grown Up Mia
The Falling
as Eileen Lamont
Hamlet
as Hamlet
Strange Weather
as Jane
The Shuttleworths
as Helen Bach
The Theory of Everything
as Elaine Mason
Keeping Rosy
as Charlotte
Run & Jump
as Vanetia
Keeping Up with the Joneses
as Celia
Svengali
as Angie
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The Heart Fails Without Warning
as Mother
Private Peaceful
as Hazel Peaceful
Best Laid Plans
as Isabel
DeafBlind
as Maggie
Edge
as Elly
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Imaginary Friend
as Pauline
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
as Anne Lister
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
as Helen Marshall
Clubbed
as Angela
Hancock & Joan
as Joan Le Mesurier
Bike Squad
as WPC Kate McFay
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Would Like To Meet
as George's Mum
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I Am Bob
as Marilyn Monroe Lookalike/Compere's Assistant
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Confessions of a Diary Secretary
as Tracey Temple
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
as Self
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The Madness of the Dance
The Fear of Trilogy
Frozen
as Ticket Attendant
Faith
as Linda
Christmas Lights
as Pauline
All or Nothing
as Party girl
Hamilton Mattress
as Lulu (voice)
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
as Self
Girls' Night
as Sharon
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Obsession: The Beryl Burton Story
as Self
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