ACTOR
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 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.
Movies & TV Shows
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
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Girls' Night
⭐ 6.8
Where We Used to Meet
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Dance First
⭐ 6.6
Words of War
⭐ 6.9
Clubbed
⭐ 6.7
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
⭐ 6.5
The Real Anne: Unfinished Business
⭐ N/A
I Am Bob
⭐ 7.5
Christmas Lights
⭐ 5.6
Tish
⭐ 9.0
Edge
⭐ 6.0
Wendell & Wild
⭐ 6.6
Woken
⭐ 5.4
Svengali
⭐ 5.4
Run & Jump
⭐ 5.9
Hancock & Joan
⭐ 4.1
The Theory of Everything
⭐ 7.8
Confessions of a Diary Secretary
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Keeping Rosy
⭐ 5.4
Something Out of Nothing
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Surfaces
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Lapushka!
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Judy
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Strange Weather
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I Wish For You
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It's Me
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Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
⭐ 6.9
The Falling
⭐ 5.1
Inner Polar Bear
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Hamlet
⭐ 8.2
The Great Mountain Sheep Gather
⭐ 7.0
The Madness of the Dance
⭐ 6.5
Generation '66
⭐ 7.0
Faith
⭐ 9.0
Red Top
⭐ 5.3
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
⭐ 7.0
Choked Up
⭐ 7.5
Private Peaceful
⭐ 6.6
Bike Squad
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All or Nothing
⭐ 7.1
A Midsummer Night's Dream
⭐ 5.3
Hamilton Mattress
⭐ 6.8
Funny Cow
⭐ 6.3
Art Matters
⭐ 10.0
Keeping Up with the Joneses
⭐ 5.9
Best Laid Plans
⭐ 5.5
Frozen
⭐ 5.9
I Swear
⭐ 8.3
Fanny Lye Deliver'd
⭐ 6.2
Would Like To Meet
⭐ 10.0
Imaginary Friend
⭐ 8.0
The Heart Fails Without Warning
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Peterloo
⭐ 6.7
Men Who Sleep in Cars
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Wonders of the Moon
⭐ 6.7
Cake
⭐ 5.3
DeafBlind
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Gwen
⭐ 5.4
The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca
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The Priest
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Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle
⭐ 4.0
The Fear of Trilogy
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The Shuttleworths
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Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods
⭐ 7.2
Be Still My Beating Heart
⭐ 1.0
Unseen
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Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels
⭐ 0.5
Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough
⭐ 7.0
Quiet on Set: The Class Division in the Film Industry?
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The Occupant of the Room
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Becoming Victoria Wood
⭐ 6.0
The Bright Side Running Club
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Laundreams
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Crackula
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Obsession: The Beryl Burton Story
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National Theatre Live: The Welkin
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dinnerladies
⭐ 7.5
Early Doors
⭐ 7.8
ChuckleVision
⭐ 6.3
Jonathan Creek
⭐ 7.6
Comedy Connections
⭐ 6.5
We Have Been Watching
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Criminal Justice
⭐ 7.6
Little Dorrit
⭐ 7.9
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
⭐ 4.5
The Street
⭐ 7.6
Star Wars: Visions
⭐ 7.1
Red Riding
⭐ 7.2
Timeshift
⭐ 7.0
Artsnight
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Room at the Top
⭐ 6.9
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
⭐ 7.3
Messiah
⭐ 7.4
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
⭐ 7.6
Clocking Off
⭐ 7.6
Rules of the Game
⭐ 6.2
Sunburn
⭐ 4.8
Three Girls
⭐ 7.3
Art That Made Us
⭐ 5.5
See No Evil: The Moors Murders
⭐ 6.3
The Devil's Whore
⭐ 6.8
Shameless
⭐ 7.5
Black Mirror
⭐ 8.3
The Graham Norton Show
⭐ 7.2
Linda Green
⭐ 7.4
Secret Life of the Safari Park
⭐ N/A
The Bisexual
⭐ 6.4
Say Nothing
⭐ 7.5
The Hollow Crown
⭐ 7.4
Anne
⭐ 7.0
Inside No. 9
⭐ 8.1
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
⭐ 7.0
Last Seen
⭐ 7.6
Mandy
⭐ 7.5
Dinnerladies Diaries
⭐ 9.0
The One Show
⭐ 4.3
Fairy Tales
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The Village
⭐ 7.3
Silk
⭐ 7.5
First Day on Earth
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Bait
⭐ 6.6
The Haunted Season
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Dalziel and Pascoe
⭐ 6.4
At Home with the Braithwaites
⭐ 6.5
The South Bank Show
⭐ 5.6
The Unheard
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Children's Ward
⭐ 5.2
Picking Up the Pieces
⭐ 10.0
Coronation Street
⭐ 5.3
The Way We Live Now
⭐ 7.7
Holby City
⭐ 5.8
Agatha Christie's Marple
⭐ 7.9
Berlin Noir
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