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Maxine Peake is an English stage, radio, film and television actress, 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.

Peake has appeared in a number of television and stage productions including Victoria Wood's Dinnerladies, Channel 4's Shameless, in the lead role of barrister Martha Costello in the BBC's legal drama Silk and alongside John Simm in the BBC drama The Village, depicting life in a Derbyshire village during the First World War. Following career advice from Victoria Wood, between the two series of Dinnerladies, Peake lost so much weight that an explanation had to be written into the script for her character, Twinkle.

Peake portrayed the Moors murderer Myra Hindley in See No Evil: The Moors Murders. Broadcast in Ma

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Actor, writer and political activist, Maxine Peake was born in Westhoughton, Bolton in 1974. Her prolific and varied acting career across TV, film and stage, has established her as one of the country’s hardest working and best loved actors.

Maxine Peake - 'Great Northeners'
(Stanley Chow)

Maxine has appeared in many TV and film productions including Channel 4's Shameless, in the lead role of barrister Martha Costello in the BBC's legal drama Silk and The Village, depicting life in a Derbyshire village during the WW1. She portrayed Moors murderer Myra Hindley in See No Evil: The Moors Murders and in 2009 appeared in her first major feature film role, as Angela, in the film Clubbed. Maxine starred as Nellie in Mike Leigh's 2018 film, Peterloo and as the eponymous protagonist in the 2018 film Funny Cow 

 

Maxine’s authoritative but reassuring northern accent is always in demand for TV and radio voice over work.

Growing up in Bolton,

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Maxine Peake

British actress (born 1974)

Maxine Peake (born 14 July 1974) 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),[1] 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 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.

Early life

Peake was born in Bolton, England,[2] on 14 July 1974.[3] She went to Westhoughton High School and Canon Slade School (in the same year as Sara Cox) in Bradshaw, acquiring two A-levels.[4][5]

Peake joined the Octagon Youth Theatre in Bolton at the age of 13, before a period at the youth theatre of the Royal Exchange in Manc

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