Maxine Peake

Personal context

Summary

Maxine Peake is an English actor and writer known for Dinnerladies, Shameless, Silk, The Village, and stage roles including Hamlet. Her roles and writing often engage with working-class life, women’s experiences, and social inequality. Peake has identified as a feminist and socialist, backed Jeremy Corbyn and campaigned for Labour, and served as an ambassador for Women in Prison. She has also spoken about feminism, women’s objectification, and racial inequality, and has supported public campaigns concerning Gaza.