Tracy Shaw (born 27 July 1973 in Belper, Derbyshire) is a British actress and singer.She is best known for her role as hairdresser Maxine Peacock in British soap opera Coronation Street, a role which she played between May 1995 and January 2003.Shaw was born into the hotel and pub trade, at the time when her parents ran the Talbot Hotel in Belper, Derbyshire. She attended St Benedict's School in Derbyshire, learnt classical dance at Hilda Davis School of Dance, Belper and went to the Arden School of Theatre in Manchester in 1990, where she got a degree in theatre studies. Wikipedia