FrameThrower · Actors · Maxine Peake
Maxine Peake
2 films · 110 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2014–2018
Born 14 July 1974 · Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, UK
Maxine Peake 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 Dinnerladies. She has since played Veronica in Channel 4's Manchester-based drama series Shameless, barrister Martha Costello in the BBC legal drama Silk and Grace Middleton in The Village. She is also an accomplished stage actress, having played the title role in Hamlet, and had a role in the 2014 film The Theory of Everything. In 2018 she played the lead in the film Funny Cow and had a starring role in Mike Leigh's epic Peterloo, a film very close to her heart.
How their films are shot
Measured across 110 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Maxine takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 2 films we hold, 64% of their frames are day, 50% natural — the look of the work Maxine takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 110 frames from Maxine Peake's 2 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.