Maxine Peake
Birthday: 1974-07-14
Place of Birth: Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, UK
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.
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The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
Boasting an amazing selection of the most watched, most influential and most highly acclaimed progra...
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Girls' Night
Two British best friends and in-laws Dawn and Jackie work together at a factory. When Dawn is diagno...
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Where We Used to Meet
While caring for their dying mother, a child finds solace in a group of friends, but begins to encou...
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Dance First
Parisian bon vivant, World War II Resistance fighter, Nobel Prize-winning playwright, philandering h...
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Words of War
World-renowned journalist and human rights activist Anna Politkovskaya went from being a local print...
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Clubbed
An underworld drama set in the early 1980s, about a lonely factory worker whose life is transformed ...
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The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
A lesbian in the 1800s who keeps a detailed account of her life written in coded diaries attempts to...
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The Real Anne: Unfinished Business
The story of Merseyside mum and campaigner Anne Williams, who lost her son Keven. For nearly three d...
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I Am Bob
On his way to a Make Poverty History gig in Scotland, Bob Geldof is accidentally stranded by an inco...
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Christmas Lights
Robson Green and Mark Benton co-star in Christmas Lights, a one-off comedy drama for ITV1 centred on...
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Tish
A working-class photographer captures the impact of Thatcherism on the north of England but is unabl...
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Wendell & Wild
Two scheming demons strike a deal with a punk rock-loving teen so they can leave the Underworld and ...
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Edge
A hotel. A cliff. Six lost people, looking for something, or looking to lose themselves....
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Woken
Anna wakes to kind faces she doesn’t recognize and a remote island she has no memory of. She is forc...
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Svengali
Svengali tells the story of Dixie, a postman from South Wales, and a music fanatic. All his life he’...
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Run & Jump
After a stroke leaves her husband disabled and fundamentally changed, a spirited Irish wife struggle...
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Hancock & Joan
Drama which tells the story of comedian Tony Hancock's love affair with his friend's wife, and her f...
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The Theory of Everything
The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the...
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Confessions of a Diary Secretary
Funny film concerning John Prescott's affair with Tracey Temple...
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Keeping Rosy
A woman becomes enraged after being passed over for a promotion at her job....
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Something Out of Nothing
A specially commissioned animation inspired by Barbara Hepworth's art and life....
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Surfaces
Short film for Refuge, the national charity for domestic abuse, drawing attention to the shocking ri...
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I Wish For You
A woman is moving house and as she is unpacking boxes she finds a long lost letter from her grandfat...
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Judy
Set in Royton, Manchester, Judy is the uplifting story of a mother struggling to come to terms with ...
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It's Me
Set over the course of an evening, a mother remembers moments from a game she played with her son th...
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Lapushka!
'The Butternut Squash Gang' always stumble upon a criminal rouse that is passed off by adults as ove...
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Strange Weather
Two strangers witness a mysterious natural phenomenon that reawaken their senses and draws their fra...
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Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
After 6 years of brutal murders, the West Yorkshire Police fear that they may have already interview...
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The Falling
England, 1969. The fascinating Abbie and the troubled Lydia are great friends. After an unexpected t...
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Inner Polar Bear
A moving depiction of the alternative human and animal perspectives on the implications of climate c...
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Hamlet
From its sell-out run at Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre comes a film version of this unique and...
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The Great Mountain Sheep Gather
Every summer, the sheep on Scafell Pike are gathered down to the farm for shearing. On this epic jou...
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The Madness of the Dance
In the middle ages there was an outbreak of dancing manias in Europe that lasted hundreds of years. ...
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Generation '66
Documentary exploring the key events of 1966, a period when British pop music, fashion and sport was...
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Faith
A gripping story of love, deceit, betrayal and survival set against the backdrop of the Miners' Stri...
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Red Top
Comic fantasy telling the story of Rebekah, an innocent and beguiling Northern girl who accidentally...
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Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
The comedienne stars in this festive sketch show, alongside a host of celebrity guests....
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Choked Up
A politician learns just how quickly things can go terribly wrong when a career-defining live TV int...
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Private Peaceful
Set in the fields of Devon and the WW1 battlefields of Flanders, two brothers fall for the same girl...
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Bike Squad
Comedy-drama featuring a group of inept constables who are relegated to the embarrassing "Bike Squad...
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All or Nothing
Penny works at a supermarket and Phil is a gentle taxi-driver. Penny’s love for Phil has run dry and...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
At the tyrannical court of Athens, pitiless dictator Theseus plans his wedding to Hippolyta, a priso...
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Hamilton Mattress
Sludger the aardvark tries to make it big as a drummer in the big city....
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Funny Cow
A comedian uses her troubled past as material for her stand-up routine, trying to rise up through th...
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Art Matters
Join Melvyn Bragg for an insightful journey into why “Art Matters,” With a career spanning over 60 y...
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Keeping Up with the Joneses
MP's wife Celia discovers her husband's true colours when she is taken hostage by his criminal busin...
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Best Laid Plans
David Blair directs this powerful British Drama, loosely inspired by John Steinbeck's novel 'Of Mice...
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Frozen
It's two years since the mysterious disappearance of Kath Swarbrick's older sister Annie, but Kath r...
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I Swear
Diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome at 15, John Davidson navigates his way against the odds through tro...
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The Heart Fails Without Warning
Lola's sister has stopped eating. Lola treats her with the scorn she deserves - she'll snap out of i...
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Fanny Lye Deliver'd
On an isolated English farm in 1657, Fanny lives a quiet life with her oppressive husband John and t...
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Would Like To Meet
A single mum looks for love in the lonely-hearts pages, but someone has already decided to play cupi...
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Peterloo
An epic portrayal of the events surrounding the infamous 1819 Peterloo Massacre, where a peaceful pr...
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Men Who Sleep in Cars
Drama, entirely in verse, following three men who sleep on the streets of Manchester in their vehicl...
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Wonders of the Moon
Documentary which uses the latest, most detailed imagery to reveal the monthly life cycle of the moo...
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DeafBlind
'Ever had that feeling you're being watched?' A Deaf Blind woman has a man living in her house. She ...
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Gwen
A mysterious — and suspicious — run of ill fortune plagues a teenage girl and her mother and sister ...
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The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca
Maxine Peake's exploration of the true story of Lillian Bilocca, a largely forgotten but formidable ...
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The Priest
Johnny Marr has teamed up with the award-winning actor Maxine Peake to create a new project which se...
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Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle
Narrated by Maxine Peake, this feature documentary explores the failures and deception that have cau...
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The Fear of Trilogy
Maxine Peake stars in a short film about three fears (birds, falling, sleepwalking) - filmed and edi...
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The Shuttleworths
Versatile singer/song-writer John Shuttleworth struggles to balance semi-professional obligations - ...
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Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods
Documentary following British punk duo Sleaford Mods on their two year journey from Nottingham bedro...
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Twisting My Melon
Biopic based on Happy Mondays frontman Shaun Ryder's autobiography, the film will track the singer’s...
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Be Still My Beating Heart
Two adult sisters exist dysfunctionally, each limited by illnesses affecting both body and mind — on...
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Unseen
A cleaner in a brand new apartment block begins to suspect one of the residents is a victim of domes...
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Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels
Following the artist Phil Collins' search for a decommissioned statue of German philosopher Friedric...
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Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough
One of the most controversial writers of our times, join Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh as he und...
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Quiet on Set: The Class Division in the Film Industry?
Filmmaker Mark Forbes explores the persistent class barriers within the UK film industry, revealing ...
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The Occupant of the Room
Based on the short ghost story of the same name by Algernon Blackwood from 1909, The Occupant of the...
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Becoming Victoria Wood
A feature length documentary celebrating the life of Britain’s beloved comedy icon Victoria Wood del...
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