Maxine Peake
Maxine Peake (born 14 July 1974) is an English stage, radio, film and television actress, playwright 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.
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- Born:
- Jul 14, 1974 In Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, UK
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 89
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Words of War
- Latest Project:
- Series Say Nothing 2024-11-14
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Words of War | Anna Politkovskaya | 2025 |
| Movie | Woken | Helen | 2024-07-04 |
| Movie | Art Matters | Self | 2024-07-24 |
| Series | Say Nothing | Older Dolours Price | 2024-11-14 |
| Movie | Dance First | Barbara | 2023-11-03 |
| Movie | Choked Up | Fiona Lacey | 2023-03-28 |
| Series | Anne | Anne Williams | 2022-01-02 |
| Movie | The Real Anne: Unfinished Business | Self- Presenter | 2022-01-06 |
| Movie | Wendell & Wild | Irmgard Klaxon (voice) | 2022-10-21 |
| Series | Rules of the Game | Sam Thompson | 2022-01-11 |
| Movie | Lapushka! | Scoot Piccolo | 2022-08-04 |
| Movie | It's Me | Miriam | 2020-01-02 |
| Movie | Fanny Lye Deliver'd | Fanny Lye | 2019-10-10 |
| Movie | Judy | Judy | 2019-01-01 |
| Movie | Wonders of the Moon | Narrator (voice) | 2018-01-31 |
| Movie | Peterloo | Nellie | 2018-11-01 |
| Movie | Funny Cow | Funny Cow | 2018-04-20 |
| Movie | Gwen | Elen | 2018-07-12 |
| Series | The Bisexual | Sadie | 2018-10-10 |
| Movie | The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca | Herself | 2018-09-02 |
| Movie | Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods | Self (archive footage) | 2017-04-21 |
| Series | Three Girls | Sara Rowbotham | 2017-05-16 |
| Series | We Have Been Watching | Self | 2017-01-04 |
| Movie | Cake | 2017-09-29 | |
| Movie | Men Who Sleep in Cars | Sarah | 2017-10-01 |
| Movie | Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle | Narrator | 2017-06-08 |
| Movie | The Priest | 2017-12-11 | |
| Movie | Unseen | Emma | 2017-09-22 |
| Movie | Red Top | Rebekah Brooks | 2016-01-20 |
| Movie | Generation '66 | Narrator | 2016-07-31 |
| Movie | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Titania | 2016-05-30 |
| Series | Artsnight | Herself - Presenter | 2015-03-06 |
| Movie | The Shuttleworths | Helen Bach | 2015-01-01 |
| Movie | Hamlet | Hamlet | 2015-03-23 |
| Movie | The Falling | Eileen Lamont | 2015-04-24 |
| Movie | Run & Jump | Vanetia | 2014-01-24 |
| Movie | Keeping Rosy | Charlotte | 2014-06-08 |
| Movie | The Theory of Everything | Elaine Mason | 2014-11-26 |
| Movie | The Heart Fails Without Warning | Mother | 2013-01-01 |
| Movie | Keeping Up with the Joneses | Celia | 2013-10-18 |
| Series | The Village | Grace Middleton | 2013-03-31 |
| Movie | Svengali | Angie | 2013-06-19 |
| Series | The Hollow Crown | Doll Tearsheet | 2012-06-30 |
| Movie | Best Laid Plans | Isabel | 2012-02-03 |
| Movie | Private Peaceful | Hazel Peaceful | 2012-10-12 |
| Series | Room at the Top | Alice Aisgill | 2012-09-26 |
| Series | Silk | Martha Costello | 2011-02-22 |
| Series | Black Mirror | Bella | 2011-12-04 |
| Movie | DeafBlind | Maggie | 2011-12-31 |
| Movie | The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister | Anne Lister | 2010-03-01 |
| Movie | Imaginary Friend | Pauline | 2010-05-08 |
| Movie | Edge | Elly | 2010-10-23 |
| Movie | Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980 | Helen Marshall | 2009-02-28 |
| Series | Fairy Tales | Unknown | 2008-01-10 |
| Movie | Bike Squad | WPC Kate McFay | 2008-01-04 |
| Movie | Hancock & Joan | Joan Le Mesurier | 2008-03-26 |
| Series | Criminal Justice | Juliet Miller | 2008-06-30 |
| Series | Little Dorrit | Miss Wade | 2008-10-26 |
| Series | The Devil's Whore | Elizabeth Lilburne | 2008-11-19 |
| Movie | Clubbed | Angela | 2008-10-02 |
| Movie | The 50 Greatest Television Dramas | Self | 2007-02-03 |
| Series | The Graham Norton Show | Herself | 2007-02-22 |
| Movie | I Am Bob | Marilyn Monroe Lookalike/Compere's Assistant | 2007-04-26 |
| Movie | Would Like To Meet | George's Mum | 2007-07-31 |
| Movie | Confessions of a Diary Secretary | Tracey Temple | 2007-02-28 |
| Series | The Alan Titchmarsh Show | Unknown | 2007-09-03 |
| Movie | The Fear of Trilogy | 2006-01-01 | |
| Series | The Street | Unknown | 2006-04-13 |
| Movie | The Madness of the Dance | 2006-01-01 | |
| Series | See No Evil: The Moors Murders | Myra Hindley | 2006-05-14 |
| Movie | Frozen | Ticket Attendant | 2005-03-12 |
| Movie | Faith | Linda | 2005-02-28 |
| Series | Shameless | Veronica Fisher | 2004-01-13 |
| Movie | Christmas Lights | Pauline | 2004-12-20 |
| Series | Comedy Connections | Unknown | 2003-06-09 |
| Series | Early Doors | Janice | 2003-05-12 |
| Movie | All or Nothing | Party girl | 2002-05-17 |
| Movie | Hamilton Mattress | Lulu (voice) | 2002-01-01 |
| Series | Messiah | DS Vickie Clarke | 2001-05-26 |
| Series | Linda Green | Receptionist | 2001-10-30 |
| Series | Clocking Off | Marie Leach | 2000-01-23 |
| Movie | Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings | Self | 2000-12-25 |
| Series | Sunburn | Unknown | 1999-01-16 |
| Movie | Girls' Night | Sharon | 1998-06-26 |
| Series | Dinnerladies | Twinkle | 1998-11-12 |
| Series | Jonathan Creek | Unknown | 1997-05-09 |
| Series | Hetty Wainthropp Investigates | Unknown | 1996-01-03 |
| Series | Dalziel & Pascoe | Unknown | 1996-03-16 |
| Series | ChuckleVision | Unknown | 1987-09-26 |