Maxine Peake
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Maxine Peake (born in 1974) is an 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 and Victoria Wood's dinnerladies.
Peake's recent portrayal of the Moors Murderess Myra Hindley in See No Evil: The Moors Murders has been met with mixed reactions. In 2006 she also appeared in On the Third Day the resultant play in Channel 4's The Play's the Thing televised competition. Following the broadcast of See No Evil, Peake announced that she was quitting Shameless.
She will next play Tracey Temple in the TV drama Confessions of a Diary Secretary, which tells the story of John Prescott's affair with a co-worker.
