Maxine Peake

All Movies of Maxine Peake

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  6.0
  Dance First
  Literary genius Samuel Beckett lived a life of many stages: Parisian bon vivant, Resistance fighter in World War II, Nobel Prize-winning playwright, philandering husband and recluse. But for all the adulation he received, he was a...
   2023

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  6.0
  Anne (TV Miniseries)
  TV Series (2022). 4 Episodes. Devastated by the loss of her fifteen year old son, Kevin, at the 1989 FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest, Anne Williams fights for the truth about the tragedy. Standing along s...
   2022

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  Talking Heads (TV Series)
  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 Britain's finest actors star in 10 of Bennet...
   2020

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  6.7
  Fanny Lye Deliver'd
  Set on an isolated farm in Shropshire in 1657. The story of Fanny Lye, a woman who learns to transcend her oppressive marriage and discover a new world of possibility.
  Character: Fanny Lye

   2019

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  6.0
  Gwen
  A folk story set in the dark hills of Wales during the industrial revolution.
   2018

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  6.5
  Peterloo
  The story of the 1819 Peterloo Massacre where British forces attacked a peaceful pro-democracy rally in Manchester.
  Character: Nellie

   2018

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  Black Mirror: Metalhead (TV)
   2017

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  7.7
  Three Girls (TV Miniseries)
  Based on three young girls who were groomed, sexually abused and trafficked by British Pakistani men in Rochdale and of the failure of the authorities to do anything about it.
   2017

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  6.4
  Keeping Rosy
  Character: Charlotte

   2014

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  7.2
  The Theory of Everything
  Renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking (Eddie Redmayne) and his wife Jane (Felicity Jones) struggle with Stephen’s debilitating illness as he embarks on his groundbreaking study of the nature of time, in this moving adaptation ...
  Character: Elaine Mason

   2014

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  6.0
  Run and Jump
  Run and Jump is an unconventional love story and authentic portrait of a happy-go-lucky Irish family.
   2013

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  Keeping Up With The Joneses (S)
  MP’s wife Celia discovers her husband’s true colours when she gets taken hostage by his criminal business associates, but both her and her kidnapper also end up learning a thing or two about themselves.
   2013

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  The Village (TV Series)
  Follows the residents of one English village across the 20th century and their turbulent lives.
   2013

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  Svengali
  Svengali tells the story of Dixie, a small town guy with a big dream. He leaves a humble Welsh mining town for the bright lights of London, intent on becoming the manager of the best band in the world. Svengali is a feel-good Brit...
   2013

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  8.3
  The Hollow Crown: Henry IV, Part 1 (TV)
  The heir to the throne, Prince Hal, defies his father, King Henry, by spending his time at Mistress Quickly's tavern in the company of the dissolute Falstaff and his companions. The King is threatened by a rebellion led by Hal's r...
  Character: Doll Tearsheet

   2012

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  The Hollow Crown: Henry IV, Part 2 (TV)
  In the aftermath of the Battle of Shrewsbury, Northumberland learns of the death of his son. The Lord Chief Justice attempts on behalf of the increasingly frail King to separate Falstaff from Prince Hal. The rebels continue to plo...
  Character: Doll Tearsheet

   2012

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  Room at the Top (TV Miniseries)
  Room at the Top is a 2012 BBC television adaptation by Amanda Coe of John Braine's novel of the same name, with a cast led by Matthew McNulty, Maxine Peake and Jenna-Louise Coleman, and directed by Aisling Walsh.
   2012

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  Private Peaceful
  A classic rites of passage story of two brothers and the exuberance and pain of their teenage love for the same girl, the pressures of their feudal family life, the horrors and folly of war and the ultimate price of courage and co...
   2012

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  6.3
  Best Laid Plans
  Character: Isabel

   2012

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  8.8
  Black Mirror (TV Series)
  TV Series (2011-Present). 5 Seasons. A television anthology series that shows the dark side of life and technology.
  Character:  Bella 1 episode, 2017

   2011

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  Silk (TV Series)
  TV Series (2011-Present). Silk follows a group of barristers from a chambers in London. The series' main focus is on Martha Costello (Maxine Peake) and her ambition to become Queen's Counsel as well as on her rival, Clive Reader (...
   2011

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  6.7
  Red Riding: 1980 (TV)
  Police corruption interferes with the search for a killer in Yorkshire, England. Based on David Peace's novel "Nineteen Eighty".
   2009

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  Hancock & Joan (TV)
  In the mid-1960s, Joan, not long married to comic actor John Le Mesurier, meets and is mutually attracted to comedian Tony Hancock, married to the long-suffering Freddie. Hancock's most successful period is in the past and he has ...
   2008

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  8.1
  Little Dorrit (TV Series)
  An adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic 'Little Dorrit'. It tells the story of the Dorrit family and the rich array of characters they encounter on their way from rags to riches and back again.
  Character:  Miss Wade 10 episodes, 2008

   2008

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  7.1
  See No Evil: The Moors Murders (TV)
  Based on a true story. The film is a vivid drama that documents the notorious "Moors murderers", Ian Brady and Myra Hindley.
  Character:  Myra Hindley 2 episodes, 2006

   2006

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  Shameless (TV Series)
  Paul Abbott's critically acclaimed, offbeat drama about the rollercoaster lives and loves of the dysfunctional Gallagher clan. This is one family where father definitely does not know best... This is the story of a young group of ...
   2004

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  7.2
  The Way We Live Now (TV)
  TV miniseries. 4 episodes. At the center of the story is Augustus Melmotte, a European-born city financier, whose origins are as mysterious as his business dealings. Trollope describes him as 'something in the city', but the "...
  Character:  Ruby Ruggles 4 episodes, 2001

   2001

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  Dinnerladies (TV Series)
  (1998-2000). 2 seasons. Comedy about the staff of a northern English factory. Bren, a kindly woman, tries to help everyone with their problems, while attempting to ignore her drunken mother who lives in a fantasy world where she h...
   1998