Maxine Peake does what you would expect – deliver a subtle and knowing performance and also manages to give the character a fresh feel which goes way beyond gender… She also proves to be a credible ...

Maxine Peake is to play Hamlet in a "radical re-imagining" of the play at Manchester's Royal Exchange theatre. The Shameless actress will reunite with Royal Exchange artistic director Sarah Frankcom, ...

Maxine Peake (born 14 July 1974) is an English stage, radio, film and television actress, playwright, producer, director and political activist, who made her name as Twinkle in Victoria Wood's sitcom ...