Maxine Peake

ACTRESS, DIRECTOR, WRITER

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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 May 2006, it was met with mixed reactions; soon after this Peake announced that she was leaving Shameless. January 2009 saw Peake appear in her first major feature film role, as Angela, in the film Clubbed. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous

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Streaming Availability

Amazon Video has the most number of Maxine Peake’s flixes, followed by Amazon Prime Video compared to other streaming platforms. See the full graph below.

Releases by Year

Maxine Peake on average has worked on 3 movies per year from 1997 to 2020. See the full graphs of the number of Maxine Peake movies released per year from 2009 till 2020.

Top Genres

Maxine Peake works mostly in Drama Genre followed by Comedy Genre flixes. 36% of Maxine Peake movies are Drama Genre movies. See Top Genres that Maxine Peake worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Maxine Peake has worked on is 7.0.

7.0 / 10

Maxine Peake's Movies and Tv Series available to Stream now ..

The story of Anne Williams fight for the truth of her son's death.

8.3/1053 min

Available in 4 platform(s).

Drama,History
I Swear (2025)

Diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome at 15, John Davidson navigates his way against the odds through troubled teenage years and into adulthood, finding inspiration in the kindness of others to discover his true purpose in life.

8.3/10121 min

Available in 8 platform(s).

Crime,Drama,History,Mystery,Thriller
Say Nothing (2024)

Through the eyes of various Irish Republican Army (IRA) members, explore the extremes some people will go to in the name of their beliefs, the way a deeply divided society can suddenly tip over into armed conflict, the long shadow of radical violence for both victims and perpetrators, and the emotional and psychological costs of a code of silence.

8.1/1043 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

A six-part series about life at the Bar, the dilemmas and problems that modern day barristers have to face, and what it means to become a silk.

8/1060 min

Available in 14 platform(s).

Widely celebrated as Alan Bennett's masterpieces, his multi-award-winning Talking Heads return to BBC One. Filmed during lockdown under social distancing guidelines, a new generation of ...

7.9/10\N min

Available in 3 platform(s).

Crime,Drama,Mystery
Criminal Justice (2008)

Series 1 follows Ben Coulter who is accused of committing a crime that he has no recollection of after a drunken and drug-filled night out. Series 2 follows Juliet through the criminal justice system after she stabs her abusive husband.

7.7/10584 min

Available in 2 platform(s).

Follows the residents of one English village across the 20th century and their turbulent lives.

7.7/1060 min

Available in 8 platform(s).

A vivid drama that documents the notorious "Moors murderers", Ian Brady and Myra Hindley.

7.1/10180 min

Available in 9 platform(s).