Maxine Peake [76944] Gender: Female Popularity: 2.5424 Birthplace: Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, UK Birthday: 1974-07-14 Age: 50 years Movies: 69 Links: Homepage, IMDB 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. Words of War2025-05-02 Art Matters2024-07-24 Woken2024-07-04 Dance First2023-11-03 Tish2023-11-17 Choked Up2023-03-28 Inner Polar Bear2022-10-06 Wendell & Wild2022-10-21 Lapushka!2022-08-04 Something Out of Nothin2022-05-29 The Real Anne: Unfinish2022-01-06 Where We Used to Meet2021-09-28 Surfaces2020-06-03 The Great Mountain Shee2020-04-13 It's Me2020-01-02 Fanny Lye Deliver'd2019-10-10 Be Still My Beating Hea2019-10-06 Judy2019-01-01 The Last Testament of L2018-09-02 Peterloo2018-11-01 Gwen2018-07-12 Wonders of the Moon2018-01-31 The Priest2017-12-11 Ceremony: The Return of2018-06-22 Funny Cow2018-04-20 Men Who Sleep in Cars2017-10-01 Cake2017-09-29 Unseen2017-09-22 Dispossession: The Grea2017-06-08 Bunch of Kunst - A Film2017-04-21 Generation '662016-07-31 A Midsummer Night's Dre2016-05-30 Red Top2016-01-20 I Wish For You2016-01-01 Hamlet2015-03-23 Strange Weather2015-01-02 The Shuttleworths2015-01-01 The Falling2015-04-24 The Theory of Everythin2014-11-07 Keeping Rosy2014-06-08 Keeping Up with the Jon2013-10-18 Svengali2013-06-19 Run & Jump2014-01-24 The Heart Fails Without2013-01-01 Private Peaceful2012-10-12 Best Laid Plans2012-02-03 DeafBlind2011-12-31 Edge2010-10-23 Imaginary Friend2010-05-08 The Secret Diaries of M2010-03-01 Red Riding: The Year of2009-11-11 Clubbed2008-10-02 Hancock & Joan2008-03-26 Bike Squad2008-01-04 Would Like To Meet2007-07-31 I Am Bob2007-04-26 Confessions of a Diary 2007-02-28 The 50 Greatest Televis2007-02-03 The Fear of Trilogy2006-01-01 The Madness of the Danc2006-01-01 Frozen2005-03-12 Faith2005-02-28 Christmas Lights2004-12-20 All or Nothing2002-10-18 Hamilton Mattress2002-01-01 Victoria Wood with All 2000-12-25 Girls' Night1998-06-26 I Swear Twisting My Melon