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    Maxine Peake

    1974-07-14 (50 years old) in 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 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

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    Woken
    59 %|Jul 4, 2024
    Science Fiction, Horror
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    Tish
    90 %|Nov 17, 2023
    Documentary
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    Dance First
    79 %|Nov 3, 2023
    History, Drama
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    Wendell & Wild
    67 %|Oct 21, 2022
    Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
    actor
    Inner Polar Bear
    0 %|Oct 6, 2022
    Animation
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    Lapushka!
    0 %|Aug 4, 2022
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    Something Out of Nothing
    0 %|May 29, 2022
    Animation
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    The Real Anne: Unfinished Business
    0 %|Jan 6, 2022
    Documentary
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    Where We Used to Meet
    0 %|Sep 28, 2021
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    Surfaces
    0 %|Jun 3, 2020
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    The Great Mountain Sheep Gather
    0 %|Apr 13, 2020
    Documentary
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    It's Me
    0 %|Jan 2, 2020
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    Judy
    0 %|Jan 1, 2019
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    Generation '66
    70 %|Jul 31, 2016
    Documentary
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    I Wish For You
    0 %|Jan 1, 2016
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    The Falling
    51.349999999999994 %|Apr 24, 2015
    Drama, Mystery
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    Hamlet
    82 %|Mar 23, 2015
    Drama
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    Strange Weather
    0 %|Jan 2, 2015
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    The Theory of Everything
    79 %|Nov 26, 2014
    Drama, Romance
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    Keeping Rosy
    56 %|Jun 8, 2014
    Thriller
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    Run & Jump
    60 %|Jan 24, 2014
    Drama
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    Svengali
    53 %|Jun 19, 2013
    Comedy
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    Edge
    60 %|Oct 23, 2010
    Action, Thriller
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    The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
    66 %|Mar 1, 2010
    Drama, Romance, TV Movie
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    Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
    69 %|Feb 28, 2009
    Thriller, Crime, Drama, Mystery, TV Movie
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    Clubbed
    67 %|Oct 2, 2008
    Drama, Action, Thriller, Crime
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    Hancock & Joan
    49 %|Mar 26, 2008
    Comedy, Drama, TV Movie
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    I Am Bob
    75 %|Apr 26, 2007
    Comedy
    actor
    Confessions of a Diary Secretary
    0 %|Feb 28, 2007
    Comedy, TV Movie
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    The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
    0 %|Feb 3, 2007
    Documentary, TV Movie
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    The Madness of the Dance
    60 %|Jan 1, 2006
    actor
    Faith
    0 %|Feb 28, 2005
    Drama
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    Christmas Lights
    49 %|Dec 20, 2004
    Comedy, Drama, TV Movie
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    Girls' Night
    68 %|Jun 26, 1998
    Comedy, Drama
    actor
    Words of War
    0 %|Invalid Date
    Drama
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    Art Matters
    0 %|Jul 24, 2024
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    Choked Up
    70 %|Mar 28, 2023
    Comedy
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    Fanny Lye Deliver'd
    65 %|Oct 10, 2019
    Drama, History, Thriller
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    Be Still My Beating Heart
    10 %|Oct 6, 2019
    Horror, Fantasy, Science Fiction
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    Peterloo
    68 %|Nov 1, 2018
    History, Drama
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    The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca
    0 %|Sep 2, 2018
    Documentary
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    Gwen
    55 %|Jul 12, 2018
    Drama, Mystery, Horror, History
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    Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels
    5 %|Jun 22, 2018
    Documentary
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    Funny Cow
    64 %|Apr 20, 2018
    Comedy, Drama
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    Wonders of the Moon
    62 %|Jan 31, 2018
    Documentary
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    The Priest
    0 %|Dec 11, 2017
    Music, Drama
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    Men Who Sleep in Cars
    0 %|Oct 1, 2017
    Drama
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    Cake
    53 %|Sep 29, 2017
    Drama, Science Fiction, Comedy
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    Unseen
    0 %|Sep 22, 2017
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    Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods
    74 %|Apr 21, 2017
    Music, Documentary
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    A Midsummer Night's Dream
    52 %|May 30, 2016
    Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
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    Red Top
    53 %|Jan 20, 2016
    Comedy
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    The Shuttleworths
    0 %|Jan 1, 2015
    Animation, Comedy
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    Keeping Up with the Joneses
    59 %|Oct 18, 2013
    Comedy, Drama
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    Private Peaceful
    66 %|Oct 12, 2012
    Drama, Romance, War
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    Best Laid Plans
    56 %|Feb 3, 2012
    Thriller, Drama, Action
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    DeafBlind
    0 %|Dec 31, 2011
    Drama
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    Imaginary Friend
    80 %|May 8, 2010
    Drama
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    Bike Squad
    0 %|Jan 4, 2008
    Comedy, Drama, Crime
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    Would Like To Meet
    0 %|Jul 31, 2007
    Romance
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    The Fear of Trilogy
    0 %|Jan 1, 2006
    Comedy
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    Frozen
    57 %|Mar 12, 2005
    Thriller
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    All or Nothing
    70.31 %|May 17, 2002
    Drama
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    Hamilton Mattress
    64 %|Jan 1, 2002
    Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family, Music
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    I Swear
    0 %|Invalid Date
    Drama, History
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    Twisting My Melon
    0 %|Invalid Date

    Series

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    Say Nothing
    73 %|Nov 14, 2024
    Drama, Crime
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    Secret Life of the Safari Park
    0 %|Jan 4, 2024
    Documentary
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    Art That Made Us
    55 %|Apr 7, 2022
    Documentary
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    Rules of the Game
    60 %|Jan 11, 2022
    Mystery
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    Anne
    68 %|Jan 2, 2022
    Drama
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    Star Wars: Visions
    72 %|Sep 22, 2021
    Animation, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure
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    Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
    81.43 %|Jun 23, 2020
    Comedy, Drama
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    The Bisexual
    70 %|Oct 10, 2018
    Comedy, Drama
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    Three Girls
    71 %|May 16, 2017
    Drama, Crime
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    We Have Been Watching
    0 %|Jan 4, 2017
    actor
    Artsnight
    0 %|Mar 6, 2015
    Documentary
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    Inside No. 9
    80 %|Feb 5, 2014
    Comedy, Mystery, Crime, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama
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    The Village
    75 %|Mar 31, 2013
    Drama
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    Room at the Top
    69 %|Sep 26, 2012
    Drama
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    The Hollow Crown
    74 %|Jun 30, 2012
    Drama,
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    Black Mirror
    83 %|Dec 4, 2011
    Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama, Mystery
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    Silk
    76 %|Feb 22, 2011
    Drama
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    Red Riding
    73 %|Mar 12, 2009
    Crime, Drama
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    The Devil's Whore
    68 %|Nov 19, 2008
    Drama
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    Little Dorrit
    78 %|Oct 26, 2008
    Drama
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    Criminal Justice
    75 %|Jun 30, 2008
    Crime, Drama
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    Fairy Tales
    0 %|Jan 10, 2008
    Drama, Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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    The Alan Titchmarsh Show
    37 %|Sep 3, 2007
    Talk
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    The Graham Norton Show
    72 %|Feb 22, 2007
    Comedy, Talk
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    See No Evil: The Moors Murders
    64 %|May 14, 2006
    Crime, Drama
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    The Street
    76 %|Apr 13, 2006
    Drama
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    Shameless
    77 %|Jan 13, 2004
    Comedy, Drama
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    Shameless
    77 %|Jan 13, 2004
    Comedy, Drama
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    Comedy Connections
    20 %|Jun 9, 2003
    Documentary, Comedy
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    Early Doors
    77 %|May 12, 2003
    Comedy
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    Timeshift
    70 %|Oct 10, 2002
    Documentary
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    Linda Green
    70 %|Oct 30, 2001
    Drama, Comedy
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    Messiah
    71 %|May 26, 2001
    Mystery, Drama, Crime
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    Clocking Off
    74 %|Jan 23, 2000
    Drama
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    Sunburn
    40 %|Jan 16, 1999
    Comedy, Drama
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    Dinnerladies
    74 %|Nov 12, 1998
    Comedy
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    Jonathan Creek
    74 %|May 9, 1997
    Mystery, Comedy, Drama
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    Dalziel & Pascoe
    63 %|Mar 16, 1996
    Crime, Mystery
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    Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
    72 %|Jan 3, 1996
    Drama, Crime
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    ChuckleVision
    62 %|Sep 26, 1987
    Family, Comedy