Maxine Peake

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Maxine Peake

Maxine Peake (born July 14, 1974 in Westhoughton , England ) is a British film and stage actress .

Life

Peake is the second daughter of Brian and Glenys Peak (née Hall); her older sister Lisa (* 1965) is a police officer.

Her father worked as a truck driver and in the electrical industry, her mother as a part-time worker in care. At the age of nine, the parents separated and Peak stayed with his mother until she was 15, when she met a new partner and moved in with him. In order to complete her GCSE at Westhoughton High School, she has since lived with her grandfather, who, according to his own account, also encouraged her to act. After finishing high school, she attended Canon Slade School in Bradshaw, where she graduated from high school.

In her youth, Peake played with the Wigan Ladies in the rugby league .

In 2009 Peake left London after 13 years and moved to her partner, Art Director Pawlo Wintoniuk in Salford . The move released her from the financial constraints of buying a house in London; he made it possible for her to "accept riskier roles and lower-paid offers in the theater". According to her own statements, she has been fortunate enough to decide what to do in recent years; living in Salford would give her the confidence to do so again, since she had no more mortgage to pay. In a 2014 interview, she stated that she had suffered two miscarriages and that everything was trying to have a child, including in vitro fertilization .

Career

Peake (right) with Jerry Brotton and Paapa Essiedu at the Hay Festival of Literature & Arts in 2016

She joined the Octagon Youth Theater in Bolton at the age of thirteen before playing at the Youth Theater of the Royal Exchange in Manchester . She later studied performing arts for two years at Salford College of Technology and was a member of the Communist Party of Britain in Salford. During this time she appeared in productions for two of the leading amateur theater companies in Bolton: the Marco Players and the Phoenix Theater Company.

Peake's early attempts to break into professional acting were unsuccessful. So she was rejected by every drama school in North West England and she tried for three years to get a place at the Manchester Polytechnic Theater School and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama . At the age of 21 she finally got a place at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London . Her attempts to get a RADA scholarship were the subject of the 1996 television documentary The South Bank Show ; she received the Patricia Rothermere Award .

Since then, Peake has worked as an actress in film, television and theater. In the theater she played title roles in Miss Julie , Hamlet and Happy Days ; in 2000 she had already played the role of Kristin in a production by Miss Julie . In 2001, she played the prostitute Doll Tearsheet in BBC Two adaptations of William Shakespeare's historical drama Henry IV, Part 1 and Henry IV, Part 2 .

Her better-known roles in television series included the Veronica Ball in Shameless on Channel 4 and Barrister Martha Costello on the BBC series Silk . Other roles she had in the BBC drama The Village alongside John Simm , the life in a village in Derbyshire during the First World War is, and in Victoria Woods Dinner Ladies . After a career tip from Victoria Wood, she lost so much weight that the weight change had to be incorporated into the scripts for her character Twinkle in Dinner Ladies .

In 2006 Peake portrayed the serial killer Myra Hindley in the television film See No Evil: The Moors Murders , who, together with her partner Ian Brady (played by Sean Harris ), kidnapped, abused and murdered five children and young people near Manchester in the 1960s. Moor murders ”went down in British criminal history; The broadcast of the two-part series, which won a BAFTA Award , met with mixed reactions. That same year, she announced that she was leaving the TV series Shameless .

Peake had her first major feature film role in January 2009 as Angela in Clubbed .

Her main productions at the Royal Exchange Theater in Manchester included Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour in 2008 , for which she won the Manchester Evening News Theater Award, and in 2012 August Strindberg's Miss Julie , for which she received a Manchester Theater Award. All productions were directed by Sarah Frankcom, with whom she also collaborated on Percy Bysshe Shelley's The Masque of Anarchy for the Manchester International Festival in 2012 . In the same year she contributed the vocals for the Eccentronic Research Council's concept album 1612 Underture , which dealt with the Pendle witch trials . In November 2012, Peake wrote, directed and starred Beryl: A Love Story on Two Wheels , a radio play about the life of Leeds- born cyclist Beryl Burton , premiered on BBC Radio Four .

In September 2013 Peake was named Associate Artist at the Royal Exchange Theater in Manchester.

She continued her collaboration with Sarah Frankcom in September 2014 on a radical new production of Hamlet starring Peake and directed by Frankom; The demand for theater tickets was so great that the production was extended by a week, making the production the "fastest sold-out stage play in the theater within a decade". The Guardian wrote about her appearance: “Peake's delicate wildness, her special mixture of concentration and lightness, ensure that you follow her whenever you see her.” Also in 2014, Peake wrote her radio play Beryl: A love story on two wheels by order the West Yorkshire Playhouse for the stage, where it ran under the title Beryl in June and July 2014 and coincided with the start of the Tour de France in Leeds; further performances followed in June and July 2015 as well as a stage tour through England in the autumn of the same year.

For the 2015 album Johnny Rocket, Narcissist & Music Machine… I'm Your Biggest Fan of the Eccentronic Research Council, she again provided the vocals and starred in the music video Sweet Saturn Mine by The Moonlandingz, a joint project between Eccentronic Research Council and Fat White Family , a crazy stalker . In December 2015, she appeared in The Skriker as " Caryl Churchill's shape-shifting, failing fairy"; The Guardian's Lyn Gardner added the production to their "Ten Best British Songs of the Year".

In 2016, Peake shone as Blanche Dubois in Tennessee Williams ' end of the line yearning ; Peake's role has been described here by the Guardian as "exquisite" and "breathtaking". Another radio play, Peakes, for Radio 4, Queens of the Coal Age , in 2016 told the story of Annie Scargill and three other women who tried to occupy a coal mine during the British miners' strike in the mid-1980s.

In 2017, it was revealed that Peake would star in Mike Leigh's film Peterloo , which covers the events of the Peterloo massacre in Manchester in 1819. In August of the same year she played in the episode Metalhead of the Netflix series Black Mirror ; the episode was directed by David Slade , who also directed television series such as Hannibal and American Gods .

In the 2018 film Funny Cow by Tony Pitts, she played the eponymous protagonist alongside Pitts, Paddy Considine and Stephen Graham . The film received extremely positive reviews, with particular praise for Peak's “great acting performance”. She also received critical acclaim in May 2018 for portraying Winnie in Samuel Beckett's Happy Days at the Royal Exchange Theater; The Guardian headlined that her portrayal was “brilliant” and “hardly a touch between optimism and despair” fits.

After Happy Days , the theater presented Peakes own play, Queens of the Coal Age . Based on her radio play of the same name, it is about the protests of the miners' women in the early 1990s against the closure of pits in northern England; however, it received mixed reviews.

In July 2019 Peake plays the singer Nico of the band The Velvet Underground in The Nico Project at the Manchester International Festival.

Political commitment

Jeremy Corbyn and Maxine Peake campaigning for the 2016 Tolpuddle Martyrs' Festival

Already in her youth Peake was active in communist organizations and a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain . The avowed feminist and socialist regularly incorporates her political views into her work; in January 2014 she won the Bolton Socialist Club Outstanding Contribution to Socialism Award for speaking out against the government's “crippling austerity measures”.

Peake is a supporter of Jeremy Corbyn and supported him in the July 2015 election campaign for leadership of the Labor Party . On her website she wrote: “For me, Jeremy Corbyn is our only hope to get the Labor Party back on track, to get the electorate back in touch with politics and this country from the constant senseless bullying of the vulnerable and poor to rescue."

In January 2016, she played the character of Mia in the short film I Wish For You by the British Climate Coalition , at the side of Jeremy Irons in the role of her grandfather. The film deals with the fight against climate change . In the same year she supported Jeremy Corbyn's bid for Prime Minister of the United Kingdom alongside other British celebrities .

In an interview during the UK general election in 2017 in April, Peake said, “I am a Corbyn supporter. I don't understand why people treat him like the antichrist ; it shows that people are far more right-wing conservative than they'd like to believe. "

In June 2020 she spread anti-Semitic conspiracy theories on the internet. It falsely claimed that the police methods used in the death of George Floyd were taught to the US police by Israeli security forces. She went on to say that capitalism must be abolished as quickly as possible, since one is being ruled by "fascist dictators". Shortly afterwards, she retracted her statement on Twitter about training the US police as false.

Filmography (selection)

Awards and nominations

Royal Television Society North Awards
  • 2006: Royal Television Society North Award for Best Actress for See No Evil: The Moors Murders
British Academy Television Awards (BAFTA TV Awards)
  • 2009: BAFTA TV Award in the "Best Actress" category for Hancock and Joan (nominated)
  • 2014: BAFTA TV Award in the "Best Actress" category for The Village (nominated)
Broadcasting Press Guild TV & Radio Awards
  • 2010: BPG TV & Radio Award in the “Best Actress” category for The Street
  • 2010: BPG TV & Radio Award in the “Best Actress” category for Criminal Justice
  • 2013: BPG TV & Radio Award in the category "Best Actress" for Silk - Robes made of silk (nominated)
  • 2013: BPG TV & Radio Award in the category "Best Actress" for Room at the Top (nominated)
  • 2014: BPG TV & Radio Award in the category "Best Actress" for The Village (nominated)
  • 2018: BPG TV & Radio Award in the “Best Actress” category for Three Girls - Why does nobody believe us? (nominated)
Crime Thriller Awards
  • 2010: Crime Thriller Award in the “Best Actress” category for Criminal Justice
  • 2013: Crime Thriller Award in the category "Best Actress" for Silk - Robes made of silk (nominated)
Fantasporto Awards
  • 2014: Fantasporto Award in the “Best Actress” category for Keeping Rosy
British Independent Film Awards
  • 2018: British Independent Film Award in the category "Best Actress" for Funny Cow (nominated)
UK Theater Awards
  • 2018: UK Theater Award in the category "Outstanding contribution to British Theater"

Web links

Commons : Maxine Peake  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Charlotte Philby, My Secret Life: Maxine Peake, actress, 33 . In: The Independent , March 8, 2008. Archived from the original on April 20, 2008. 
  2. ↑ a b c Maureen Paton: Maxine Peake: From rugby league to starring actress . In: Daily Mail , November 9, 2007. Archived from the original on April 3, 2009. 
  3. ↑ From running on rugby league fields to acting on the Hollywood big screen , Fox Sports Australia. December 11th 2013. 
  4. ^ Maxine Peake on Leaving London . In: The Daily Telegraph . Archived from the original on April 4, 2015. Retrieved on April 7, 2015.
  5. ^ It's So Selfish to Have Children . In: Daily Mail . Archived from the original on April 15, 2015. Retrieved on April 7, 2015.
  6. ↑ a b c Amanda Mitchison: Maxine Peake: The Misfit . In: The Guardian . May 15, 2010. Archived from the original on June 7, 2014. Retrieved June 4, 2014.
  7. ^ Maxine Peake - My lovely Lancashire home . In: Lancashire Life , January 4, 2012. Retrieved October 13, 2012. "When I was much younger I used to be a member of the Communist Party although nowadays I don't really have a political affiliation to any party." 
  8. ↑ Amy Raphael: Justice at last for Maxine Peake . In: The Guardian , October 3, 2009. Archived from the original on March 10, 2016. 
  9. ↑ Alice Jones: Maxine Peake: Onward and upward . In: The Independent , June 22, 2006. Archived from the original on June 3, 2010. 
  10. ↑ Miss Julie Cast List . Royal Exchange Theater. Archived from the original on October 14, 2014. Retrieved March 3, 2012.
  11. ↑ Eccleston Woos Miss Julie at Haymarket . What's on stage. January 19, 2000. Retrieved March 5, 2012.
  12. ↑ Cast confirmed for BBC Two's cycle of Shakespeare films . BBC drama publicity. November 24, 2011. Archived from the original on December 30, 2011. Retrieved on July 20, 2012.
  13. ^ The Village Press Pack . BBC Press Office. March 19, 2013. Archived from the original on April 2, 2013. Retrieved on March 19, 2013.
  14. ^ Return to the Moors . Manchester Evening News. May 4, 2006. Archived from the original on April 16, 2007.
  15. ↑ John Doran: The Eccentronic Research Council And Maxine Peake . In: The Quietus . August 22, 2012. Archived from the original on February 4, 2013.
  16. ↑ Richard Abraham: BBC to broadcast Beryl Burton radio drama . In: Cycling Weekly , November 20, 2012. Archived from the original on June 7, 2014. Retrieved June 4, 2014. 
  17. ↑ Beryl: A Love Story On Two Wheels . BBC. Archived from the original on September 25, 2015. Retrieved July 20, 2015.
  18. ↑ Meet The Creative Team . Royal Exchange Theater. Archived from the original on April 19, 2015. Retrieved April 9, 2015.
  19. ^ Royal Exchange Press Release . royalexchange.co.uk. Retrieved May 10, 2014.
  20. ^ Maxine Peake's run as Hamlet at Royal Exchange extended by a week , Manchester Evening News , September 1, 2014.
  21. ↑ Hamlet Review . In: The Guardian . Archived from the original on April 8, 2015. Retrieved April 8, 2015.
  22. ↑ Ian Youngs: Maxine Peake celebrates unsung sporting hero Beryl Burton . BBC News. June 24, 2014. Archived from the original on September 25, 2015. Retrieved on July 20, 2015.
  23. ^ Tour de Beryl . West Yorkshire Playhouse. July 8, 2015. Archived from the original on October 4, 2015. Retrieved July 20, 2015.
  24. ↑ Tristan Bath: The Eccentronic Research Council - Johnny Rocket, Narcissist & Music Machine ... I'm Your Biggest Fan . In: The Quietus . May 27, 2015. Archived from the original on April 21, 2016.
  25. ↑ Sweet Saturn Mine . YouTube. Archived from the original on October 3, 2015. Retrieved on April 9, 2015.
  26. ↑ Maxine Peake Stalks the Fat Whites ... . In: The Guardian . Archived from the original on April 16, 2015. Retrieved April 9, 2015.
  27. ^ Susannah Clapp: The Skriker review - extraordinarily prescient . Archived from the original on December 23, 2015. Retrieved on December 23, 2015.
  28. ↑ Lyn Gardner: Lyn Gardner's top 10 theater of 2015 . Archived from the original on December 23, 2015. Retrieved on December 23, 2015.
  29. ↑ Michael Billington: A Streetcar Named Desire review - Maxine Peake is a breathtaking Blanche (en-GB) . In: The Guardian , September 13, 2016. Retrieved August 27, 2017. 
  30. ^ Queens of the Coal Age . Archived from the original on December 21, 2016. Retrieved on April 29, 2017.
  31. ↑ Maxine Peake Joins Mike Leigh's 'Peterloo' (Exclusive) (en) . In: The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved August 27, 2017. 
  32. ↑ Bruce Haring: 'Black Mirror': Season 4 Cast & Episode Info, Teaser Trailer Released By Netflix (en) . In: Deadline , August 25, 2017. Accessed August 27, 2017. 
  33. ↑ Funny Cow Review .
  34. ↑ Catherine Love: Happy Days review - Maxine Peake is transfixed by climate chaos ( en ) May 31, 2018. Retrieved September 28, 2018.
  35. ↑ Queens of the Coal Age, Afternoon Drama - BBC Radio 4 ( en-GB ) Retrieved September 28, 2018.
  36. ^ Queens of the Coal Age review at the Royal Exchange Theater, Manchester (en-US) . In: The Stage . Retrieved September 28, 2018. 
  37. ↑ Catherine Love: Queens of the Coal Age review - Maxine Peake shines light on women's fight for the mines ( en ) July 5, 2018. Retrieved September 28, 2018.
  38. ↑ Maxine Peake to star as Nico in play about the singer's 'dark side' ( en ) March 8, 2019. Accessed March 8, 2019.
  39. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/oct/17/maxine-peake-hope-corbyn-people-power-peterloo-radical-legacy
  40. ↑ Ed Cumming: Maxine Peake: 'I care deeply what people think' , The Guardian. January 17, 2016. Archived from the original on December 14, 2016. 
  41. ↑ Saiqa Chaudhari: Maxine Peake wins socialism award for opposing austerity measures . The Bolton News. January 10, 2014. Archived from the original on March 20, 2014. Retrieved June 4, 2014.
  42. ^ Luke James: Peake: Corbyn can put Labor on track , Morning Star . July 11, 2015. Archived from the original on August 9, 2015. 
  43. ↑ Maxine Peake stars in new climate change film 'I Wish for You ...' . BT.com. Archived from the original on April 7, 2016.
  44. ↑ Michael Wilkinson: Celebrities to tour Britain in 'Jeremy Corbyn For Prime Minister' musical show , The Daily Telegraph . February 1, 2016. Archived from the original on June 9, 2016. Retrieved July 15, 2017. 
  45. ↑ Simon Hattenstone: Maxine Peake: 'I'm a Corbyn supporter. We need a coup ' . In: The Guardian , April 29, 2017. Archived from the original on June 6, 2017. Retrieved June 14, 2017. 
  46. ↑ Maxine Peake: 'People who couldn't vote Labor because of Corbyn? They voted Tory as far as I'm concerned '. Retrieved June 25, 2020 .
  47. ^ Labor's Rebecca Long-Bailey sacked in anti-Semitism row. Retrieved June 25, 2020 . Maxine Peake's bizarre George Floyd claim. Retrieved June 25, 2020 .
  48. ^ Labor leader Sir Keir Starmer sacks Rebecca Long-Bailey over 'antisemitic conspiracy theory' article. Retrieved June 27, 2020 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Peake, Maxine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British film and stage actress
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Westhoughton , England , UK