# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maxine-peake
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:56:40.420Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/maxine-peake"
name: "Maxine Peake"
slug: "maxine-peake"
description: "Maxine Peake 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), 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 a Royal Exchange production of 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."
tagline: "British actress"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Maxine_Peake%2C_Tolpuddle_2016.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1974-07-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           15.84251866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0668845/"
    handle:    "nm0668845"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.maxine-peake.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "ماكسين بيك"
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    title: "Maxine Peake"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxine_Peake"
    title: "Maxine Peake"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Maxine Peake"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Maxine Peake"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxine_Peake"
    title: "Maxine Peake"
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  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%A7%D7%A1%D7%99%D7%9F_%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%A7"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Maxine Peake"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Maxine Peake"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Maxine Peake"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump