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Maxine Peake - what members say


  • Dinnerladies - Series 1
  • Dinnerladies - Series 1 review by from London, SE16
    Rated - 4.0 stars 12 Rounds of toast please 25 April 2006
    ...other. Anna Reid and Thelma Barlow make a brilliant elderly double act and Maxine Peake (Veronica in Shameless) shows pure class as the dopey Twinkle and her stunned s...   Read customer review
  • See No Evil
  • See No Evil review by from Lancaster, England
    Rated - 2.0 stars See No Evil 13 January 2009
    ...As much as I think Maxine Peake and Sean Harris are brilliant actors, I didn't get a sense of who they really were in See No Evil. Primarily the fault of the screenwriter I...   Read customer review
  • Clubbed
  • Clubbed review by LaFarge from UK
    Rated - 0.5 stars Don't, Just Don't... 3 April 2011
    ...When I saw Maxine Peake, Colin Salmon and Neil Morrissey in this I thought excellent, well worth a watch as I am a firm fan of British films. Well, what a crusing disappoin...   Read customer review

Maxine Peake - filmography


  • Best Laid Plans on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Stephen Graham,  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje,  David O'Hara
    Director: David Blair
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In this unforgivingly hard-hitting thriller, Danny (Stephen Graham) and his friend Joseph (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje), are faced with a terrible ultimatum. To pay off Danny's mounting debts to crime boss Curtis (David O'Hara), Joseph must battle his way through a number of unliscensed cage fights. ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 402 members
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  • Silk - Series 2 (2011)
    Starring: Maxine Peake,  Rupert Penry-Jones,  Alex Jennings
    Director: Peter Hoar
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    As Martha (Maxine Peake) steps up to become a QC, Shoe Lane Chambers once again becomes the focus for drama and intrigue on the front line of criminal law... Martha Costello is incredibly young to have got silk, she is a brilliant and passionate barrister but now the stakes are higher than ever. ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 14 members
    Due for release on 4th June 2012
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  • Silk (2 discs) on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Maxine Peake,  Rupert Penry-Jones
    Director: Michael Offer,  Catherine Morshead,  Catherine Morshead
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Silk is a thrilling drama series for BBC One about the lives, loves and hard cases facing barristers on the front line of criminal law, written by Bafta award-winning writer Peter Moffat. Maxine Peake is Martha Costello, in her thirties, single, passionate and a defence barrister applying for silk. ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 82% from 484 members
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  • Edge on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Maxine Peake,  Marjorie Yates,  Joseph Dempsie
    Director: Carol Morley
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Washed-up pop star (Paul Hilton) arrives at the Cliff Edge Hotel looking for inspiration and meets a guilt-ridden woman (Maxine Peake), who is desperate to recover her past. An older woman (Marjorie Yates) checks into a room with dark intent, but encounters a chambermaid (Ania Wendzikowska) who ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 26 members
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  • Clubbed - Blu-ray (2009)
    Starring: Mel Raido,  Shaun Parkes,  Scot Williams
    Director: Neil Thompson
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Based on the international best selling book by Bafta winning writer Geoff Thompson, Clubbed is a journey through family and fear set in the violent world of 1980's clubland. Danny - a lonely factory worker, intimidated by life - is battered and humiliated in front of his kids in a random act of ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 1,455 member
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  • Shameless - Series 6 (5 discs) on DVD (2009)
    Starring: David Threlfall,  Brid Brennan,  Jody Latham
    Director: David Richardson
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    The sixth series of offbeat TV drama SHAMELESS promises plenty of laughs from Manchester's most dysfunctional family, the Gallaghers, as they go about their hectic lives. Join Frank and his menagerie of kids, his wife and his ex, for whom there is never a dull moment on Chatsworth housing estate. ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 84% from 1,254 member
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  • Clubbed on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Mel Raido,  Shaun Parkes,  Scot Williams
    Director: Neil Thompson
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Based on the international best selling book by Bafta winning writer Geoff Thompson, Clubbed is a journey through family and fear set in the violent world of 1980's clubland. Danny - a lonely factory worker, intimidated by life - is battered and humiliated in front of his kids in a random act of ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 5,172 members
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  • See No Evil on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Maxine Peake,  Sean Harris,  Matthew McNulty
    Director: Christopher Menaul
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    SEE NO EVIL is a chilling drama is based on the infamous true-life crimes of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley. During the mid-60's the pair abducted and murdered five people; three children and two teenagers, four of which were buried in the Yorkshire Moors. Maxine Peak (SHAMELESS) and Sean Harris (CREEP)..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 356 members
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  • Shameless - S03 E03 (2005)
    Starring: David Threlfall,  Maggie O'Neill,  Dean Lennox Kelly
    Director: Jim O'Hanlon
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    When Mandy Maguire gives birth prematurely after a smash and grab at the shop, Lip is desperate to see his baby but the Maguire family won't let him near the child or their daughter. So when he gets information about who it was robbed Mandy and knocked her to the ground, he sees his opportunity to ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 No ratings yet. Be the first.
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  • Shameless - S03 E07 (2005)
    Starring: David Threlfall,  Maggie O'Neill,  Dean Lennox Kelly
    Director: Paul Walker
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    When the lights go out on Debbie's party the Gallaghers discover that Sue's forgotten to pay the electricity bill. No big deal until they scratch the surface of her excuses and unravel Sue's got twelve grand worth of debt. She claims it's owed to her by her ex Craig but Carol's having none of it ..read more »
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  • Shameless - S03 E06 (2005)
    Starring: David Threlfall,  Maggie O'Neill,  Dean Lennox Kelly
    Director: David Threlfall
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Lip finally realises his true feelings for Mandy when he sees she has a new boyfriend and as soon he's alone in his bedroom with her seizes the opportunity to tell her how he feels. But before the words can leave his mouth the ceiling collapses and Carl comes tumbling down from the attic surrounded ..read more »
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Maxine Peake facts

5 most recent films

Shameless - Series 8 - 3.5 stars
Best Laid Plans - 3.0 stars
Best Laid Plans - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Silk - Series 2 - 3.0 stars
Silk - 4.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Shameless - Series 6 - 4.0 stars
Shameless - Series 4 - 4.0 stars
Silk - 4.0 stars
Dinnerladies - Series 1 - 4.0 stars
Messiah - Series 3 And 4 - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Edge - 2.5 stars
Silk - Series 2 - 3.0 stars
Best Laid Plans - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Best Laid Plans - 3.0 stars
Clubbed - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Maggie O'Neill - 21 times - show films
David Threlfall - 21 times - show films
Dean Lennox Kelly - 20 times - show films
Marjorie Yates - 13 times - show films
Chris Bisson - 13 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Marc Munden - 8 times - show films
Marc Munden - 8 times - show films
Catherine Morshead - 7 times - show films
David Richardson - 7 times - show films
Catherine Morshead - 6 times - show films