Maxine Peake

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Maxine Peake
Peake in February 2015
Born (1974-07-14) 14 July 1974 (age 49)
EducationWesthoughton High School; Canon Slade School
Occupations
  • Actress
  • narrator
Years active1995–present
Known fordinnerladies
Shameless
Silk
The Village
PartnerPawlo Wintoniuk

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[edit]

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 Manchester. She later did a two-year performing arts course at the Salford College of Technology.[6] During this time she appeared in productions with two leading amateur theatre companies in Bolton: The Marco Players and The Phoenix Theatre Company. Peake was a member of the Communist Party of Britain Salford branch in her youth.[7] In her teens, Peake played for Wigan Ladies rugby league team.[8]

Peake's early attempts to enter the acting profession were unsuccessful. She was rejected by every theatre education company in North West England,[9] and tried unsuccessfully for three years to get into Manchester Polytechnic Theatre School and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.[10] However, at 21, she obtained a place at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). Her attempts to find sponsorship for her study at RADA were the subject of a 1996 documentary by The South Bank Show. Eventually, after being put forward by RADA, she was awarded the Patricia Rothermere Scholarship.[6][11]

Career[edit]

Peake (right) with Jerry Brotton and Paapa Essiedu at the 2016 Hay Festival

Peake has appeared in many 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.[12] 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.[6]

Peake portrayed Moors murderer Myra Hindley in See No Evil: The Moors Murders, which was broadcast in May 2006.[13] In January 2009, Peake appeared in her first major feature film role, as Angela, in the film Clubbed.

In 2012, Peake played the title role in Miss Julie at the Royal Exchange, Manchester,[14] and previously played the part of Kristin in a 2000 production.[15] She played Doll Tearsheet in the BBC2 adaptations of Henry IV, Parts I and II.[16]

Peake wrote, directed and starred in the play Beryl: A Love Story On Two Wheels about the life of the Leeds-born cyclist Beryl Burton, which was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2012.[17][18] In 2014, Peake adapted her play for the stage. Entitled simply Beryl, it was commissioned by the West Yorkshire Playhouse, where it ran in June and July 2014 to coincide with the start of the Tour de France in Leeds.[19] The play returned in June and July 2015 and toured across England in Autumn 2015.[20] Peake wrote a later play called Queens of the Coal Age again for Radio 4 that told the story of Anne Scargill and three other women who tried to occupy a coal mine in 1993.[21]

Peake provided the vocals for the Eccentronic Research Council's 2012 concept album 1612 Underture about the Pendle witch trials[22] and for their 2015 album Johnny Rocket, Narcissist & Music Machine…I'm Your Biggest Fan.[23] Peake also features as a crazed stalker in the music video for "Sweet Saturn Mine"[24] by Moonlandingz; a collaborative effort by Eccentronic Research Council and Fat White Family in 2015.[25]

In September 2013, Peake was appointed an Associate Artist of the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester.[26] Her association with the theatre began in childhood and she was a member of the youth theatre. Major productions in which she has performed include The Children's Hour in 2008, for which she won a MEN Award, and Miss Julie in 2012 for which she won a Manchester Theatre Award. All of her performances at the Royal Exchange have been directed by Sarah Frankcom with whom she also collaborated on The Masque of Anarchy in 2012 for the Manchester International Festival. Building on this work, in September 2014 Frankcom went on to direct her as the title character in a radical re-imagining of Hamlet.[27] The demand for tickets was so great that the production was extended for a week, having been "the theatre's fastest-selling show in a decade".[28] The Guardian said of her performance: "Peake's delicate ferocity, her particular mixture of concentration and lightness, ensure that you want to follow her whenever she appears".[29] A year later she appeared in Frankcom's production of The Skriker, as "Caryl Churchill's shape-shifting, doom-wreaking fairy".[30] The Guardian's Lyn Gardner listed the production in her top ten British plays of the year.[31] In 2016, Peake resumed her partnership with Royal Exchange Artistic Director, Sarah Frankcom, to star as Blanche Dubois in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire. Peake's performance in the role garnered critical acclaim with The Guardian describing her performance as "exquisite" and "breathtaking".[32]

Peake starred in Metalhead, a December 2017 episode of Netflix's Black Mirror anthology. The episode was directed by Hannibal and American Gods director, David Slade.[33]

Peake starred as Nellie in Mike Leigh's 2018 film, Peterloo, based on the events of the 1819 Peterloo Massacre in Manchester.[34]

Peake starred as the eponymous protagonist in the 2018 film Funny Cow alongside a cast including Paddy Considine and Stephen Graham. Tony Pitts wrote and starred in the film, which received positive reviews, in particular for Peake's "magnificent" performance.[35]

Peake starred in, and won critical acclaim for, the lead role of Winnie in Samuel Beckett's Happy Days at the Royal Exchange Theatre in May 2018. The Guardian said she gave a "brilliant central performance, there’s barely a breath between optimism and despair".[36] Following Happy Days, the theatre presented Queens of the Coal Age, a play written by Peake. Adapted from her earlier radio drama,[37] Queens of the Coal Age looks at the 1993 pit closure protests by miners' wives in northern England. The play received mixed reviews.[38][39]

Peake starred in The Nico Project as the Velvet Underground singer Nico at the Manchester International Festival in July 2019.[40]

Peake stars as Miss Fozzard in the 2020 BBC remake of Talking Heads, recreating a role originally played by Patricia Routledge.[41][42]

Personal life[edit]

Peake is in a relationship with art director Pawlo Wintoniuk.[43] In 2009, Peake left London after living there for 13 years. She said that living in Salford with Wintoniuk gave her the freedom to choose more risky roles and lower-paying jobs in theatre.

Political views[edit]

Peake is a feminist and socialist. She was active in communist organisations during her youth and a member of the Communist Party of Britain.[44] In January 2014 Peake won the first Bolton Socialist Club Outstanding Contribution to Socialism Award for using her work to oppose the government's "crippling austerity measures".[45]

In January 2016 Peake featured in the Climate Coalition's short film I Wish For You as Mia, with Jeremy Irons starring as her grandfather, to highlight the urgency of combating climate change.[46]

Jeremy Corbyn and Maxine Peake walking together in the procession through the village at the Tolpuddle Martyrs' Festival and Rally 2016

In July 2015, Peake endorsed Jeremy Corbyn's campaign in the Labour Party leadership election. She wrote on her website: "For me, Jeremy Corbyn is our only beacon of hope to get the Labour Party back on track, get the electorate back in touch with politics and save this country from the constant mindless bullying of the vulnerable and poor."[47] In 2016, along with other celebrities, Peake toured the UK to support Corbyn's bid to become prime minister.[48][49]

In April 2017 Peake endorsed Labour Party leader Corbyn in the 2017 general election. She said: "I am a Corbyn supporter. My mind boggles why people treat him like the anti-Christ, but it goes to show people are a lot more right-wing than they like to believe."[50] In November 2019, along with other public figures, Peake signed a letter supporting Corbyn, describing him as "a beacon of hope in the struggle against emergent far-right nationalism, xenophobia and racism in much of the democratic world", and endorsed him in the 2019 general election.[51]

In June 2020 she took part in an interview with The Independent in which she stated that the practice of police officers in the United States kneeling on someone's neck, one example of which led to the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, was "learnt from seminars taught by Israeli secret services". The Independent amended the original article to add a note that "the allegation that US police were taught tactics of 'neck kneeling' by Israeli secret services is unfounded".[52] Peake later stated that she was "inaccurate in [her] assumption of American police training and its sources".[53] Peake's statement was denounced by Labour leader Keir Starmer, the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the Jewish Labour Movement as an "antisemitic conspiracy theory". Shadow Education Secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey retweeted the article and called Peake an "absolute diamond". When Jewish groups demanded she delete the tweet, Long-Bailey refused to do so, leading to her sacking from the Shadow cabinet by Starmer. John McDonnell, the shadow chancellor under Corbyn, said that "criticism of practices of [the] Israeli state is not antisemitic" and that Peake's claim "was not antisemitic".[54]

Acting credits[edit]

Film[edit]

Key
Denotes works that have not yet been released
Year Title Role Notes
1998 Girls' Night Sharon
2002 All or Nothing Party Girl
Hamilton Mattress Lulu (voice) TV short
2005 Be Mine Tina's mother Short
Frozen Ticket Attendant
Stealing Up Daughter Short
2006 The Madness of the Dance The Professor
2007 I Am Bob Marilyn Monroe
Would Like to Meet Heather
2008 Clubbed Angela
2010 The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister Anne Lister
Alice Gillian Short
Edge Elly
2011 Room at the Top Alice Aisgill
Best Laid Plans Isabel
2012 Private Peaceful Hazel Peaceful
2013 Run & Jump Vanetia Casey
Svengali Angie
2014 The Falling Eileen
The Theory of Everything Elaine Mason
Keeping Rosy Charlotte
2017 Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle Narrator Documentary
Funny Cow Funny Cow
2018 Fanny Lye Deliver'd Fanny Lye
Peterloo Nellie
Gwen Elen
2019 Be Still My Beating Heart Short film
Judy Judy
2020 It's Me Miriam
2022 Lapushka! Scoot Piccolo
Wendell & Wild Irmgard Klaxon (voice) [55]
2023 Tish Tish Murtha Voiceover
TBA The Long Way Back Alyssa, the Sat Nav Short film
TBA Woken Helen In post-production
TBA Anna Anna Politkovskaya In production
TBA Dance First Barbara In post-production[56]

Television[edit]

Year Title Role Notes
1995 Children's Ward Geraldine 5 episodes
1996 Hetty Wainthropp Investigates Photocopy Assistant Episode: "Fingers"
1998 Picking Up the Pieces Lucy Series 1: Episode 7
1998–2000 dinnerladies Twinkle All 16 episodes
1999 Sunburn Sue Series 1: Episode 5
Coronation Street Belinda Peach Episode #1.4635
Jonathan Creek Marion Cretiss Episode: "The Curious Tale of Mr. Spearfish"
2000 Clocking Off Marie Leach Episode: "The Leaches' Story"
2001 The Way We Live Now Ruby Ruggles TV mini-series; all 4 episodes
Linda Green Receptionist Episode: "Fitness Freak"
2002 Holby City Tanya Wilton Episode: "Pawns in the Game: Part 1"
Dalziel and Pascoe Dr. Allison Laurie Episode: "Mens Sana"
2003 At Home with the Braithwaites Trixie Fletcher Series 4: Episode 3
Early Doors Janice 4 episodes
2004 Christmas Lights Pauline Television film
2004–2007 Shameless Veronica Ball Series regular (series 1–3), guest (series 4); 26 episodes
2005 Faith Linda Television film
Messiah: The Harrowing DS Vickie Clarke TV mini-series; all 3 episodes
2006 See No Evil: The Moors Murders Myra Hindley Television film
2007 Confessions of a Diary Secretary Tracey Temple
2008 Fairy Tales Cindy Mellor Episode: "Cinderella"
Bike Squad WPC Kate McFay Television film
Hancock and Joan Joan Le Mesurier
Placebo Dr. Sian Nuttall
The Devil's Whore Elizabeth Lilburne 4 episodes
Little Dorrit Miss Wade 7 episodes
2009 Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1980 Helen Marshall Television film
Agatha Christie's MarpleThey Do It with Mirrors Jolly Bellever
The Street Madeleine Episode: "Past Life"
Criminal Justice Juliet Miller 5 episodes
2010 The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister Anne Lister Television film
2011–2014 Silk Martha Costello All 18 episodes
2012 Henry IV, Parts I and II Doll Tearsheet TV dramas, part of the series The Hollow Crown
2013–2014 The Village Grace Middleton All 12 episodes
2015 Call Security Narrator Documentary
2016 Comic Strip – Red Top Rebekah Brooks Television film
A Midsummer Night's Dream Titania
2017 Three Girls Sara Rowbotham 3 episodes
Black Mirror Bella Episode: "Metalhead"
2018 The Bisexual Sadie All 6 episodes
2020 Inside No. 9 Nadia Episode: "Thinking Out Loud"
Talking Heads Miss Fozzard Episode: "Miss Fozzard Finds Her Feet"
Mandy Susan Blower Episode: "Susan Bloody Blower"
2022 Anne Anne Williams TV mini-series; all 4 episodes
Rules of the Game Sam Thompson TV mini-series; all 4 episodes[57]
Kelvin's Big Farming Adventure Narrator Six-part television series
2023 Star Wars: Visions Kalina Kalfus Episode: "I Am Your Mother"
TBA

Say Nothing

Dolours Price Filming[58]

Music videos[edit]

Year Title Artist Role Notes
2019 The Dazzler Ex:Re Actor Lead actor, portrays a nameless woman spending the night at The Dazzler

Theatre[edit]

Year Title Role Notes References
1998 Early One Morning Lizzie [59]
2000 Miss Julie Kristin [60]
The John Ford Investigation Various
The Importance of Being Earnest Gwendoline
The Cherry Orchard Dunyasha [61]
2001 The Relapse Miss Hoyden [62]
Luther Katherine Von Bora [63]
2002 Mother Theresa Is Dead Jane [64]
Hamlet Ophelia [65]
2003 Serjeant Musgrave's Dance Annie [66]
Robin Hood Maid Marion
The Permanent Way Various Not in the final cast [67]
2005 Rutherford and Son Janet [68]
2006 On the Third Day Claire [69]
2007 Leaves of Glass Debbie [70]
2008 The Children's Hour Karen Wright [71]
2011 Loyalty Laura [72]
The Deep Blue Sea Hester Collyer [73]
2012 Miss Julie Miss Julie [74]
2013 The Masque of Anarchy Performer [75]
2014 Beryl Writer
Hamlet Hamlet [76]
2015 How to Hold Your Breath Dana [77]
The Skriker The Skriker [78]
2016 A Streetcar Named Desire Blanche DuBois [79]
2018 Happy Days Winnie [80]
2019 Avalanche: A Love Story Julia
The Nico Project Nico
2020 The Welkin Lizzie Luke
The Great Mountain Sheep Gather Narrator
2022-2023 Betty! A Sort of Musical Meredith Ankle and Betty Boothroyd Co-Writer and Actor [81]

Radio drama[edit]

  • Guilty Until Proved Innocent (2009), Dina[82]
  • Geoffrey Chaucer – Troilus and Criseyde (2009), Criseyde (dramatised by Lavinia Greenlaw)[83]
  • This Repulsive Woman (2010), Deborah Hurst[84]
  • Craven (Series 1: 2009, Series 2, 3 & 4: 2012, Series 5: 2013, Series 6: 2014), Detective Sue Craven[85]
  • Beryl: A Love Story on Two Wheels (2012), writer and performer (Beryl Burton)[17]
  • Queens of the Coal Age (2013) writer and performer (Anne Scargill)[86]
  • My Dad Keith (2014), writer and performer (Steph)[87]
  • Betsie Coleman (2015), performer (Betsie Coleman)[88]
  • Briar Road (2015), narrator (writer Jonathan Buckley)[89]
  • Not in Our Name CD (2015), narrator (writer Heathcote Williams)[90]
  • Only Mountains, BBC Radio Drama on 3 (writer) 8 March 2020

Radio (other)[edit]

Only Artists (2018), meets the musician and performance artist Cosey Fanni Tutti.[91]

Awards and nominations[edit]

Year Nominated Work Association Category Result
2006 See No Evil: The Moors Murders Royal Television Society – North Best Actress Won
2009 Hancock & Joan BAFTA TV Award Nominated
2010 The Street Broadcasting Press Guild Award Won
Criminal Justice Won
Crime Thriller Awards Nominated
2013 Silk Broadcasting Press Guild Award Nominated
Crime Thriller Awards Nominated
Room at the Top Broadcasting Press Guild Award Nominated
2014 Keeping Rosy Fantasporto Awards Won
The Village BAFTA TV Award Nominated
Broadcasting Press Guild Awards Nominated
2018 Three Girls Nominated
UK Theatre Award Outstanding contribution to British Theatre Won
Funny Cow British Independent Film Awards Best Actress Nominated

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