British actress Maxine Peake chatted about starring in the new movie “Words of War,” where she played slain journalist Anna Politkovskaya. Maxine Peake in 'Words of War.' Photo Courtesy of Rolling ...

Moviefone speaks with Jason Isaacs and Maxine Peake about 'Words of War'. "The way it told a professional journalistic life was fabulous," Peake said. Moviefone recently had the pleasure of speaking ...

Maxine Peake will star in a new production of Tennessee Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire. The actress will star as fading belle Blanche DuBois in Sarah Frankcom's production at the Manchester ...

Read on to find out why the self-confessed 'leftie luvvie' was urged to choose a £16 option instead of the conversion TELLY star Maxine Peake has won a planning row to convert a farmhouse into ...

Maxine Peake has been nominated for both an acting and a writing award in the Manchester Theatre Awards. Peake is up for best actress, for the second year in a row, for her role in The Skriker which ...

Her proposal was approved by the council despite one neighbour complaining about potential noise - and suggested she rent out ...

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 ...

“Did people call you Peakey at school?” Maxine Peake asks me, her coincidental namesake. She then wonders whether we are related. (We’re not.) “I used to get Peakey all the time. Or Peakster.” The ...