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 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.
خلاصه داستان: این سریال ، چهار دهه از دوران سیاسی ایرلند شمالی را از دید اعضای مختلف ارتش جمهوری خواه ایرلند بازگو می کند و نشان می دهد که چگونه برخی افراد برای دفاع از عقاید خود، مبارزه یا حتی افراط می کنند یا اینکه چطور یک بحث به یک درگیری مسلحانه تبدیل می شود.
