Maxine Peake

  • EntertainmentYahoo Celebrity UK

    Maxine Peake leads fightback against potential Oldham Coliseum closure

    The venue has been a celebrated launching ground for many of Britain's best known actors.

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  • EntertainmentYahoo Movies UK

    Fanny Lye Deliver'd trailer: Maxine Peake and Charles Dance star in new Puritan thriller

    The BFI-backed film, shot on 35mm, premiered at the 2019 London Film Festival after spending three years in post-production.

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  • PoliticsThe Guardian

    Peterloo massacre 'could happen again', warns Maxine Peake

    An event like the Peterloo massacre, which killed an estimated 15 people 199 years ago, could happen again today, the actor Maxine Peake has said, speaking following a rally to mark the event’s anniversary. On 16 August 1819, cavalry charged into a crowd of about 60,000 people who had gathered at St Peter’s Field, Manchester, to demand the reform of parliamentary representation. “We’re in a very dangerous place politically at the moment and protest is really important.

  • NewsYahoo Movies UK Box Sets

    Black Mirror S4 challenges the London-centric notion of Britishness

    The Netflix series champions regional accents beyond the North-South divide.

  • NewsTom Butler

    Actors Go On ‘Hunger Strike’ For Last British Guantanamo Prisoner

    MPs and celebrities, including ‘Wolf Hall’ star Mark Rylance and ‘The Walking Dead’ actor David Morrissey, have rallied to the cause of Shaker Aamer, the last British prisoner to be held at Guantanamo Bay. Mr Aamer, who was born in Saudi Arabian but has UK residency, has been imprisoned in the US military prison on Cuba for 14 years without charge or trial and was promised a release “imminently” on 25 September. Since this release has failed to materialise, Aamer has gone on hunger strike tell