Maxine Peake
Maxine Peake is an English actress and narrator. She is known for her roles as Twinkle in dinnerladies, a sitcom on BBC One (1998–2000), as Veronica Ball in Shameless, the comedy drama from Channel 4 (2004–2007), Martha Costello in the BBC One legal drama Silk (2011–2014), and Grace Middleton in the BBC One drama series The Village (2013–2014). In 2017, she starred in the Black Mirror episode "Metalhead". She has also played the title role in a Royal Exchange production of Hamlet, as well as the notorious serial killer Myra Hindley in See No Evil: The Moors Murders, the critically acclaimed 2006 dramatisation by ITV of the Moors murders.
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🎬 Movies
Bait
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2026
I Swear
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2025
Words of War
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2025
Art Matters
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2024
Woken
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2024
Dance First
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2023
Wendell & Wild
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2022
Fanny Lye Deliver'd
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2019
Peterloo
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2018
Funny Cow
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2018
The Falling
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2015
The Theory of Everything
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2014
Svengali
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2013
Private Peaceful
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2012
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
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2010
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
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2009
Clubbed
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2008
Frozen
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2005
Hamilton Mattress
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2002
The Bright Side Running Club
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📺 TV Shows
Bait
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2026
Say Nothing
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2024
Kelvin's Big Farming Adventure
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2022
Rules of the Game
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2022
Anne
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2022
The Bisexual
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2018
dinnerladies diaries
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2018
999 Rescue Squad
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2018
Three Girls
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2017
Animal Heroes
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2013
The Village
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2013
Room at the Top
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2012
Silk
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2011
The Devil's Whore
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2008
Little Dorrit
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2008
Criminal Justice
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2008
See No Evil: The Moors Murders
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2006
dinnerladies
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1998
First Day on Earth
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