Biography
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.
Filmography
all 119
Movies 74
TV Shows 45
self 17
Voice 7
Narrator 6
Director 1
Producer 1
Writer 1
Anna Politkovskaya
Words of War (2025)
Movie
Older Dolours Price
Say Nothing (2024)
TV
Helen
Woken (2024)
Movie
Tish Murtha (voice)
Tish (2023)
Movie
Barbara
Dance First (2023)
Movie
Fiona Lacey
Choked Up (2023)
Movie
Irmgard Klaxon (voice)
Wendell & Wild (2022)
Movie
4
Narrator (voice)
Inner Polar Bear (2022)
Movie
Scoot Piccolo
Lapushka! (2022)
Movie
Director
Incompatible (2022)
Movie
Self - Actrice (Rules of the Game, Anne)
Art That Made Us (2022)
TV
Self - Narrator
Kelvin's Big Farming Adventure (2022)
TV
Sam Thompson
Rules of the Game (2022)
TV
Self- Presenter
The Real Anne: Unfinished Business (2022)
Movie
Anne Williams
Anne (2022)
TV
Kalina Kalfus (voice)
Star Wars: Visions (2021)
TV
8
Thanks
Doughnut (2021)
Movie
Miss Fozzard
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads (2020)
TV
Self - Narrator
The Great Mountain Sheep Gather (2020)
Movie
Miriam
It's Me (2020)
Movie
Fanny Lye
Fanny Lye Deliver'd (2019)
Movie
Judy
Judy (2019)
Movie
Nellie
Peterloo (2018)
Movie
Sadie
The Bisexual (2018)
TV
Herself / Director / Producer
The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca (2018)
Movie
Elen
Gwen (2018)
Movie
6
Friedrich Engels (voice)
Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels (2018)
Movie
Funny Cow / Executive Producer
Funny Cow (2018)
Movie
6
Narrator
999: Rescue Squad (2018)
TV
Narrator (voice)
Wonders of the Moon (2018)
Movie
Writer
The Priest (2017)
Movie
Emma
Unseen (2017)
Movie
Sara Rowbotham
Three Girls (2017)
TV
Self (archive footage)
Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods (2017)
Movie
Narrator
Generation '66 (2016)
Movie
Rebekah Brooks
Red Top (2016)
Movie
Grown Up Mia
I Wish For You (2016)
Movie
Eileen Lamont
The Falling (2015)
Movie
Hamlet
Hamlet (2015)
Movie
Self - Presenter
Artsnight (2015)
TV
Helen Bach
The Shuttleworths (2015)
Movie
Elaine Mason
The Theory of Everything (2014)
Movie
7.3
Charlotte
Keeping Rosy (2014)
Movie
Vanetia
Run & Jump (2014)
Movie
Angie
Svengali (2013)
Movie
Grace Middleton
The Village (2013)
TV
Hazel Peaceful
Private Peaceful (2012)
Movie
Alice Aisgill
Room at the Top (2012)
TV
Doll Tearsheet
The Hollow Crown (2012)
TV
7.1
Isabel
Best Laid Plans (2012)
Movie
Maggie
DeafBlind (2011)
Movie
Martha Costello
Silk (2011)
TV
6.55
Elly
Edge (2010)
Movie
Pauline
Imaginary Friend (2010)
Movie
Helen Marshall
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980 (2009)
Movie
6
Elizabeth Lilburne
The Devil's Whore (2008)
TV
3.5
Miss Wade
Little Dorrit (2008)
TV
6
Angela
Clubbed (2008)
Movie
Juliet Miller
Criminal Justice (2008)
TV
6.22
Joan Le Mesurier
Hancock & Joan (2008)
Movie
WPC Kate McFay
Bike Squad (2008)
Movie
George's Mum
Would Like To Meet (2007)
Movie
Marilyn Monroe Lookalike/Compere's Assistant
I Am Bob (2007)
Movie
Tracey Temple
Confessions of a Diary Secretary (2007)
Movie
Myra Hindley
See No Evil: The Moors Murders (2006)
TV
6
Ticket Attendant
Frozen (2005)
Movie
Linda
Faith (2005)
Movie
Pauline
Christmas Lights (2004)
Movie
Veronica Fisher
Shameless (2004)
TV
6.28
Janice
Early Doors (2003)
TV
Party girl
All or Nothing (2002)
Movie
Self - Narrator
Timeshift (2002)
TV
Lulu (voice)
Hamilton Mattress (2002)
Movie
Receptionist
Linda Green (2001)
TV
DS Vickie Clarke
Messiah (2001)
TV
Marie Leach
Clocking Off (2000)
TV
Twinkle
dinnerladies (1998)
TV
6
Sharon
Girls' Night (1998)
Movie
Marion Cretiss
Jonathan Creek (1997)
TV
1
Photocopy Assistant
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (1996)
TV
6
Narrator
Jon Venables: What Went Wrong?
Movie
Linda Ryder
Twisting My Melon
Movie
Information
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1974-07-14 (50 years old)
Birth Place
Westhoughton, United Kingdom
Citizenships
United Kingdom
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