Maxine Peake 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.
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Become a better you.
Share in the beauty of togetherness.
Join the family.
What happens behind these walls will change everything.
Like justice, it existed in theory.
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Same luxury. New reservations.
There's more to work than life.
Reacher's back.
We hear the wilderness and it hears us.
From long shot to big shot.
