Maxine Peake
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| Born | 1974 Bolton, Greater Manchester, England |
| Notable roles | Veronica in Shameless Myra Hindley in See No Evil: The Moors Murders |
Maxine Peake (born in 1974) is a acclaimed English actress from Westhoughton, near Bolton, Greater Manchester, England.
She attended Westhoughton High School and later trained at RADA. She has appeared in a number of television and stage productions including Channel 4's Shameless, Victoria Wood's Dinnerladies and Craig Cash's Early Doors as Janice. 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.
In 2006, Peake took on one of the most challenging roles of her career; that of the Moors Murderess Myra Hindley in See No Evil: The Moors Murders. See No Evil aired in May 2006 (forty years after Hindley and Ian Brady's trial), and was met with mixed reactions. Following the broadcast of See No Evil, Peake announced that she was quitting Shameless.
Also in 2006, Peake appeared in On the Third Day the resultant play in Channel 4's The Play's the Thing televised competition.
In 2007, she played Tracey Temple in the TV drama Confessions of a Diary Secretary, which told the story of John Prescott's affair with a co-worker.
