Maxine Peake
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Birthday:1974-07-14
Place of Birth:Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, UK
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The 50 Greatest Television Dramas (2007)
Boasting an amazing selection of the most watched, most influential and most highly acclaimed programmes ever made, The 50 Greatest Television Dramas...

Girls' Night (1998)
Two British best friends and in-laws Dawn and Jackie work together at a factory. When Dawn is diagnosed with a brain tumor Jackie shares $100,000...

Where We Used to Meet (2021)
While caring for their dying mother, a child finds solace in a group of friends, but begins to encounter violence at every turn.

Dance First (2023)
Parisian bon vivant, World War II Resistance fighter, Nobel Prize-winning playwright, philandering husband and recluse…Samuel Beckett lived a...

Words of War (1970)
World-renowned journalist and human rights activist Anna Politkovskaya went from being a local print journalist to braving the Chechen killing fields...

Clubbed (2008)
An underworld drama set in the early 1980s, about a lonely factory worker whose life is transformed when he becomes a nightclub doorman.

The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister (2010)
A lesbian in the 1800s who keeps a detailed account of her life written in coded diaries attempts to live independently while juggling an affair with...

The Real Anne: Unfinished Business (2022)
The story of Merseyside mum and campaigner Anne Williams, who lost her son Keven. For nearly three decades she fought the English establishment to...

I Am Bob (2007)
On his way to a Make Poverty History gig in Scotland, Bob Geldof is accidentally stranded by an incompetent chauffeur in a run-down motel in Northern...

Christmas Lights (2004)
Robson Green and Mark Benton co-star in Christmas Lights, a one-off comedy drama for ITV1 centred on two lifelong friends who have always competed...

Tish (2023)
A working-class photographer captures the impact of Thatcherism on the north of England but is unable to escape the poverty and inequality she...

Wendell & Wild (2022)
Two demon brothers enlist the aid of Kat Elliot — a tough teen with a load of guilt — to summon them to the Land of the Living. But what...

Edge (2010)
A hotel. A cliff. Six lost people, looking for something, or looking to lose themselves.

Woken (2024)
In a post-apocalyptic world, the isle provides a safe haven from a pandemic that has decimated earth. Anna wake up pregnant and unable to remember...

Svengali (2013)
Svengali tells the story of Dixie, a postman from South Wales, and a music fanatic. All his life he’s dreamed of discovering a great band and...

Run & Jump (2014)
After a stroke leaves her husband disabled and fundamentally changed, a spirited Irish wife struggles to keep her family members together. All the...

Hancock & Joan (2008)
Drama which tells the story of comedian Tony Hancock's love affair with his friend's wife, and her fight to save the man and his career.

The Theory of Everything (2014)
The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking,...

Confessions of a Diary Secretary (2007)
Funny film concerning John Prescott's affair with Tracey Temple

Keeping Rosy (2014)
A woman becomes enraged after being passed over for a promotion at her job.

Something Out of Nothing (2022)
A specially commissioned animation inspired by Barbara Hepworth's art and life.

Surfaces (2020)
Short film for Refuge, the national charity for domestic abuse, drawing attention to the shocking rise in violence against women during the 2020...

I Wish For You (2016)
A woman is moving house and as she is unpacking boxes she finds a long lost letter from her grandfather. As she reads it, his words evoke strong...

Judy (2019)
Set in Royton, Manchester, Judy is the uplifting story of a mother struggling to come to terms with her cancer diagnosis. The debut film of acclaimed...

It's Me (2020)
Set over the course of an evening, a mother remembers moments from a game she played with her son throughout his childhood. Tragedy strikes when he...

Lapushka! (2022)
'The Butternut Squash Gang' always stumble upon a criminal rouse that is passed off by adults as overactive minds. From their clubhouse in the woods,...

Strange Weather (2015)
Two strangers witness a mysterious natural phenomenon that reawaken their senses and draws their fractured lives together.

Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980 (2009)
After 6 years of brutal murders, the West Yorkshire Police fear that they may have already interviewed The Ripper and let him back into the world to...

The Falling (2015)
England, 1969. The fascinating Abbie and the troubled Lydia are great friends. After an unexpected tragedy occurs in the strict girls' school they...

Inner Polar Bear (2022)
A moving depiction of the alternative human and animal perspectives on the implications of climate change.

Hamlet (2015)
From its sell-out run at Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre comes a film version of this unique and critically acclaimed production of Hamlet with...

The Great Mountain Sheep Gather (2020)
Every summer, the sheep on Scafell Pike are gathered down to the farm for shearing. On this epic journey, a shepherd reflects on life while caring...

The Madness of the Dance (2006)
In the middle ages there was an outbreak of dancing manias in Europe that lasted hundreds of years. In the 20th century thousands of Chinese men and...

Generation '66 (2016)
Documentary exploring the key events of 1966, a period when British pop music, fashion and sport was making waves across the globe, but when the...

Faith (2005)
A gripping story of love, deceit, betrayal and survival set against the backdrop of the Miners' Strike of 1984-85. Michelle is married to Gary, a...

Red Top (2016)
Comic fantasy telling the story of Rebekah, an innocent and beguiling Northern girl who accidentally becomes Chief Executive of News International...

Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings (2000)
The comedienne stars in this festive sketch show, alongside a host of celebrity guests.

Choked Up (2023)
A politician learns just how quickly things can go terribly wrong when a career-defining live TV interview goes off the rails due to a surprise...

Private Peaceful (2012)
Set in the fields of Devon and the WW1 battlefields of Flanders, two brothers fall for the same girl while contending with the pressures of their...

Bike Squad (2008)
Comedy-drama featuring a group of inept constables who are relegated to the embarrassing "Bike Squad", a new police scheme intended to serve as a...

All or Nothing (2002)
Penny works at a supermarket and Phil is a gentle taxi-driver. Penny’s love for Phil has run dry and they lead joyless lives with their two...

A Midsummer Night's Dream (2016)
At the tyrannical court of Athens, pitiless dictator Theseus plans his wedding to Hippolyta, a prisoner of war, while young Hermia is sentenced to...

Hamilton Mattress (2002)
Sludger the aardvark tries to make it big as a drummer in the big city.

Funny Cow (2018)
A comedian uses her troubled past as material for her stand-up routine, trying to rise up through the comedy circuit by playing Northern England's...

Art Matters (2024)
Join Melvyn Bragg for an insightful journey into why “Art Matters,” With a career spanning over 60 years, Bragg passionately advocates...

Keeping Up with the Joneses (2013)
MP's wife Celia discovers her husband's true colours when she is taken hostage by his criminal business associates.

Best Laid Plans (2012)
David Blair directs this powerful British Drama, loosely inspired by John Steinbeck's novel 'Of Mice and Men'. Set in Nottingham, the film revolves...

Frozen (2005)
It's two years since the mysterious disappearance of Kath Swarbrick's older sister Annie, but Kath remains haunted by a need to know what happened....

I Swear (1970)
John Davidson, diagnosed with Tourette's at 15 and targeted as insane by his peers, struggled with a condition few had witnessed. Campaigning for...

The Heart Fails Without Warning (2013)
Lola's sister has stopped eating. Lola treats her with the scorn she deserves - she'll snap out of it soon, won't she? Adapted from Booker Prize...

Fanny Lye Deliver'd (2019)
On an isolated English farm in 1657, Fanny lives a quiet life with her oppressive husband John and their young son. One day their life is rocked with...

Would Like To Meet (2007)
A single mum looks for love in the lonely-hearts pages, but someone has already decided to play cupid - her eight year-old son…

Imaginary Friend (2010)
Short film starring Maxine Peake and written by actor Reece Dinsdale

Peterloo (2018)
An epic portrayal of the events surrounding the infamous 1819 Peterloo Massacre, where a peaceful pro-democracy rally at St Peter’s Field in...

Men Who Sleep in Cars (2017)
Three men in modern Manchester spend each night sleeping in their cars. How did they end up in this situation? How do they cope? Michael Symmons...

Wonders of the Moon (2018)
Documentary which uses the latest, most detailed imagery to reveal the monthly life cycle of the moon. From Wales to Wyoming, Hong Kong to Croydon,...

Cake (2017)
Two women sit in a barren dystopian wasteland discussing the best way to die.

DeafBlind (2011)
'Ever had that feeling you're being watched?' A Deaf Blind woman has a man living in her house. She doesn't know he's there. What does he want?

Gwen (2018)
A mysterious — and suspicious — run of ill fortune plagues a teenage girl and her mother and sister on their hillside farm in this folk...

The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca (2018)
Maxine Peake's exploration of the true story of Lillian Bilocca, a largely forgotten but formidable figure in the fight for safer trawlers. The...

The Priest (2017)
Johnny Marr has teamed up with the award-winning actor Maxine Peake to create a new project which sets Peake’s spoken word performances to...

Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle (2017)
Narrated by Maxine Peake, this feature documentary explores the failures and deception that have caused a chronic shortage of social housing in...

The Fear of Trilogy (2006)
Maxine Peake stars in a short film about three fears (birds, falling, sleepwalking) - filmed and edited in a single day on a mobile phone for Cinema...

The Shuttleworths (2015)
Versatile singer/song-writer John Shuttleworth struggles to balance semi-professional obligations - a gig at a care home - with domestic, namely his...

Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods (2017)
Documentary following British punk duo Sleaford Mods on their two year journey from Nottingham bedroom recording sessions to chart success

Twisting My Melon (1970)
Biopic based on Happy Mondays frontman Shaun Ryder's autobiography, the film will track the singer’s journey from a guitar-loving child to a...

Be Still My Beating Heart (2019)
Two adult sisters exist dysfunctionally, each limited by illnesses affecting both body and mind — one physically and the other psychologically.

Unseen (2017)
A cleaner in a brand new apartment block begins to suspect one of the residents is a victim of domestic abuse.

Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels (2018)
Following the artist Phil Collins' search for a decommissioned statue of German philosopher Friedrich Engels in eastern Ukraine, and documenting its...

dinnerladies (1998)
Dinnerladies is a BBC sitcom written by and starring Victoria Wood that chronicles the antics of a group of workers in a canteen in the north of...

Early Doors (2003)
A sitcom set in a small pub in Manchester, “The Grapes”, where daily life is bound up in the issues of love, loneliness, and blocked...

ChuckleVision (1987)
ChuckleVision is a long-standing British children's series broadcast from 1987 to 2009. The Chuckle Brothers' famous comedy involves slapstick, other...

Jonathan Creek (1997)
Working from his home in a converted windmill, Jonathan Creek is a magician with a natural ability for solving puzzles. He soon puts this ability to...

Shameless (2004)
The story of a young group of siblings pretty much abandoned by their parents, surviving by their wits - and humor - on a rough Manchester council...

Comedy Connections (2003)
Comedy Connections was a BBC One documentary series produced by BBC Scotland that aired from 2003 to 2008. The show looked at the stories behind the...

Dalziel & Pascoe (1996)
British crime drama based on the "Dalziel and Pascoe" series of books by Reginald Hill, set in the fictional Yorkshire town of Wetherton. The...

We Have Been Watching (2017)
This series features some of Britain's best-loved comedians and funniest comedy actors gathering together for a jolly night in front of the telly,...

Criminal Justice (2008)
Thriller by Peter Moffat about the challenges and politics of the criminal justice system seen through the eyes of the accused.

Little Dorrit (2008)
Amy Dorrit spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father who is a long term inmate of Marshalsea debtors' prison in...

Fairy Tales (2008)
Four contemporary adaptations of classic fairy tales, Rapunzel, Cinderella, The Emperor's New Clothes and Billy Goats Gruff.

The Alan Titchmarsh Show (2007)
The Alan Titchmarsh Show is a British daytime chat show presented by Alan Titchmarsh. It was first broadcast on ITV on 3 September 2007 and currently...

The Street (2006)
Anthology drama following the lives and passions of neighbors on a northern English street.

Star Wars: Visions (2021)
This anthology of animated shorts from around the world celebrates the mythos of Star Wars through unique cultural lenses.

Red Riding (2009)
Thrilling trilogy of films based on David Peace's cult noir novels about Yorkshire during the 1970s and 80s: a world of paranoia, corruption and the...

Timeshift (2002)
Documentary series which ranges widely over Britain's social and cultural history, its narrative-led storytelling offering a richly immersive and...

The Village (2013)
The Village tells the story of life in a Derbyshire village through the eyes of a central character, Bert Middleton.

Silk (2011)
Silk is a British television drama series produced by the BBC and first shown in 2011. Written by Peter Moffat, the series follows a set of...

Artsnight (2015)
An art magazine show guest-edited by a different personality each week.

Room at the Top (2012)
Joe leaves working-class, industrial Dufton behind him and takes a job as senior audit clerk at the town hall in affluent Warley. He takes lodgings...

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (1996)
Instead of spending her golden years lying down, the indomitable Hetty Wainthropp found her calling late in life. Combining common sense, her...

Messiah (2001)
Crime drama series following the investigations of DCI Red Metcalfe.

Alan Bennett's Talking Heads (2020)
Widely celebrated as Alan Bennett's masterpieces, his multi-award-winning Talking Heads return to BBC One. Filmed during lockdown under social...

Clocking Off (2000)
How much do you know about the person working next to you? From the outside, life at Mackintosh Textiles appears to run smoothly, but in a community...

Rules of the Game (2022)
Sam is a hard-headed manager at a family-run business in the North West. However, when Sam arrives at work one day to find a dead body in the office...

Sunburn (1999)
Sunburn is a British television series that followed the lives of a group of British holiday reps. It was broadcast on BBC One between 16 January...

Three Girls (2017)
The story of three of the children who were victims in the 2012 grooming and sex trafficking case in Rochdale, for which nine men were convicted and...

Art That Made Us (2022)
An alternative history of the British Isles, told through art. Looking at 1,500 years and eight dramatic turning points, acclaimed artists and...

See No Evil: The Moors Murders (2006)
See No Evil: The Moors Murders is a British two-part television serial directed by Christopher Menaul. It was produced by Granada Television and...

The Devil's Whore (2008)
Set between the years 1642 and 1660, "The Devil's Whore" charts the progress of the English Civil War through the eyes of the a 17 year old girl, the...

Shameless (2004)
The story of a young group of siblings pretty much abandoned by their parents, surviving by their wits - and humor - on a rough Manchester council...

Black Mirror (2011)
Over the last ten years, technology has transformed almost every aspect of our lives before we've had time to stop and question it. In every home; on...

The Graham Norton Show (2007)
Each week celebrity guests join Irish comedian Graham Norton to discuss what's being going on around the world that week. The guests poke fun...

Linda Green (2001)
Linda's a Manchester girl, born and bred. She's in her early 30s and the friends she has now are the same friends she's had since primary school. By...

Secret Life of the Safari Park (2024)
The denizens at Knowsley Safari, the longest safari drive in the UK and home to hundreds of wild animals from across the world, roam free on its...

The Bisexual (2018)
Leila takes a break from her decade long relationship with partner Sadie, and begins to explore her own bisexuality.

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...

The Hollow Crown (2012)
A series of British television films featuring William Shakespeare's History Plays.

Anne (2022)
Anne Williams, from Formby, near Liverpool, was devastated by the loss of her son, 15-year-old Kevin, who was tragically killed at the FA Cup...

Inside No. 9 (2014)
An anthology of darkly comic twisted tales, each one taking place behind a door marked 'number 9'.