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Maxine Peake
Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, UK
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 Vi…
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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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2026
Last Seen
TV show Jenna Reid
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2026
Bait
TV show Helen
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2026
Becoming Victoria Wood
Movie Self
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2025
Laundreams
Movie
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2025
The Occupant of the Room
Movie The Englishwoman (voice)
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2025
Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough
Movie Narrator
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2025
I Swear
Movie Dottie
- 2025
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2025
Words of War
Movie Anna Politkovskaya
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2024
The Haunted Season
TV show The Englishwoman (voice)
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2024
Say Nothing
TV show Older Dolours Price
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2024
Art Matters
Movie Self
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2024
Woken
Movie Helen
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2024
Secret Life of the Safari Park
TV show Narrator
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2023
Tish
Movie Tish Murtha (voice)
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2023
Dance First
Movie Barbara
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2023
Choked Up
Movie Fiona Lacey
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2022
Wendell & Wild
Movie Irmgard Klaxon (voice)
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2022
Inner Polar Bear
Movie Narrator (voice)
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2022
Lapushka!
Movie Scoot Piccolo
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2022
Something Out of Nothing
Movie
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2022
Incompatible
Movie Director
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2022
Art That Made Us
TV show Self - Actrice (Rules of the Game, Anne)
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2022
Rules of the Game
TV show Sam Thompson
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2022
The Real Anne: Unfinished Business
Movie Self- Presenter
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2022
Anne
TV show Anne Williams
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2021
Where We Used to Meet
Movie
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2021
Star Wars: Visions
TV show Kalina Kalfus (voice)
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2021
Doughnut
Movie Thanks
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2020
Mandy
TV show Susan Blower
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2020
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
TV show Miss Fozzard
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2020
Surfaces
Movie Alix
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2020
The Great Mountain Sheep Gather
Movie Self - Narrator
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2020
It's Me
Movie Miriam
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2019
Fanny Lye Deliver'd
Movie Fanny Lye
- 2019
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2019
Judy
Movie Judy
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2018
Peterloo
Movie Nellie
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2018
The Bisexual
TV show Sadie
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2018
The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca
Movie Self
