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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).
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister is a 2010 British biographical historical drama film about 19th-century Yorkshire landowner Anne Lister. Made for television, the film was directed by James Kent and starred Maxine Peake as Lister. The script by Jane English drew from Lister's diaries, written in code, and decoded many years after her ...
The miniseries received mostly positive reviews, such as Letterboxd's Mark Cunliffe praising the performances, saying that "both Maxine Peake and Sean Harris dominate proceedings with a deeply disturbing aura as Hindley and Brady, with Matthew McNulty and Joanne Froggatt equally convincing, grounded portrayals of the Smiths, and George Costigan ...
Actress. Years active. 1985–present. Anna Madeley (born 1 October 1976) [1] is an English actress. She performed for three seasons with the Royal Shakespeare Company and has appeared in three off-West End productions. She has starred in productions on each of the main British television channels and has also worked in radio and film.
Maxine Peake as Twinkle The youngest member of the team, she frequently turns up late for work and tries unsuccessfully to scrounge cigarettes from Tony. Despite her snarky attitude, she regards the other members of staff as friends, particularly Bren, to whom she turns for help on several occasions, such as when she thinks she is pregnant.
5 January 2022. (2022-01-05) Anne, subtitled One Mother's Story, is a British historical drama television miniseries developed by World Productions. Starring Maxine Peake as the titular campaigner Anne Williams, the four-part drama revolves around the Hillsborough disaster of 1989 and its aftermath. The series premiered on ITV on 2 January 2022 ...
It returned with another five episodes, starring Maxine Peake as Juliet Miller. The series follows Juliet as she struggles to lead a normal life and, after stabbing her abusive husband, following her trial through the criminal justice system. Matthew Macfadyen plays Joe, a barrister at the height of his professional powers. He is married to ...
List of. Dinnerladies. episodes. The new Complete Collection (left), Series 1 (middle) and Series 2 (right) DVD covers of the series. dinnerladies is a British sitcom that was created and written by Victoria Wood. [1] It was broadcast on BBC One in the United Kingdom, and ran for two series from 1998 to 2000, totalling sixteen episodes.