Maxine Peake

Maxine Peake
Peake in February 2015
Born	(1974-07-14) 14 July 1974 (age 50) Bolton, Greater Manchester, England
Education	Westhoughton High School; Canon Slade School
Occupations	Actress narrator
Years active	1995–present
Known for	dinnerladies Shameless Silk The Village
Partner	Pawlo 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.