Maxine Peake
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jul 14, 1974 (age 52)
- Place of birth
- Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, UK
- Credits
- 126
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.
Known for
Filmography
Crackula
2026Movie
Last Seen
2026TV
Jenna Reid
Bait
2026TV
Helen
Becoming Victoria Wood
2026Movie
Self
Laundreams
2025Movie
The Occupant of the Room
2025Movie
The Englishwoman (voice)
Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough
2025Movie
Narrator
I Swear
2025Movie
Dottie
Quiet on Set: The Class Division in the Film Industry?
2025Movie
Self
Words of War
2025Movie
Anna Politkovskaya
The Haunted Season
2024TV
The Englishwoman (voice)
Say Nothing
2024TV
Older Dolours Price
Art Matters
2024Movie
Self
Woken
2024Movie
Helen
Secret Life of the Safari Park
2024TV
Narrator
Tish
2023Movie
Tish Murtha (voice)
Dance First
2023Movie
Barbara
Choked Up
2023Movie
Fiona Lacey
Wendell & Wild
2022Movie
Irmgard Klaxon (voice)
Inner Polar Bear
2022Movie
Narrator (voice)
Lapushka!
2022Movie
Scoot Piccolo
Something Out of Nothing
2022Movie
Art That Made Us
2022TV
Self - Actrice (Rules of the Game, Anne)
Rules of the Game
2022TV
Sam Thompson
The Real Anne: Unfinished Business
2022Movie
Self- Presenter
Anne
2022TV
Anne Williams
Where We Used to Meet
2021Movie
Star Wars: Visions
2021TV
Kalina Kalfus (voice)
Mandy
2020TV
Susan Blower
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
2020TV
Miss Fozzard
Surfaces
2020Movie
Alix
The Great Mountain Sheep Gather
2020Movie
Self - Narrator
It's Me
2020Movie
Miriam
Fanny Lye Deliver'd
2019Movie
Fanny Lye
Be Still My Beating Heart
2019Movie
Judy
2019Movie
Judy
Peterloo
2018Movie
Nellie
The Bisexual
2018TV
Sadie
The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca
2018Movie
Self
Gwen
2018Movie
Elen
Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels
2018Movie
Friedrich Engels (voice)
Funny Cow
2018Movie
Funny Cow
Dinnerladies Diaries
2018TV
Self
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
2018TV
Self - Guest
Wonders of the Moon
2018Movie
Narrator (voice)
The Priest
2017Movie
Men Who Sleep in Cars
2017Movie
Sarah
Cake
2017Movie
Unseen
2017Movie
Emma
Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle
2017Movie
Narrator
Three Girls
2017TV
Sara Rowbotham
Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods
2017Movie
Self (archive footage)
We Have Been Watching
2017TV
Self
Generation '66
2016Movie
Narrator
A Midsummer Night's Dream
2016Movie
Titania
Red Top
2016Movie
Rebekah Brooks
I Wish For You
2016Movie
Grown Up Mia
The Falling
2015Movie
Eileen Lamont
Hamlet
2015Movie
Hamlet
Artsnight
2015TV
Self - Presenter
Strange Weather
2015Movie
Jane
The Shuttleworths
2015Movie
Helen Bach
The Theory of Everything
2014Movie
Elaine Mason
Keeping Rosy
2014Movie
Charlotte
Inside No. 9
2014TV
Nadia
Run & Jump
2014Movie
Vanetia
Keeping Up with the Joneses
2013Movie
Celia
Svengali
2013Movie
Angie
The Village
2013TV
Grace Middleton
The Heart Fails Without Warning
2013Movie
Mother
Private Peaceful
2012Movie
Hazel Peaceful
Room at the Top
2012TV
Alice Aisgill
The Hollow Crown
2012TV
Doll Tearsheet
Best Laid Plans
2012Movie
Isabel
DeafBlind
2011Movie
Maggie
Black Mirror
2011TV
Bella
Silk
2011TV
Martha Costello QC
Edge
2010Movie
Elly
Imaginary Friend
2010Movie
Pauline
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
2010Movie
Anne Lister
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
2009Movie
Helen Marshall
Red Riding
2009TV
The Devil's Whore
2008TV
Elizabeth Lilburne
Little Dorrit
2008TV
Miss Wade
Clubbed
2008Movie
Angela
Criminal Justice
2008TV
Juliet Miller
Hancock & Joan
2008Movie
Joan Le Mesurier
Fairy Tales
2008TV
Cindy Mellor
Bike Squad
2008Movie
WPC Kate McFay
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
2007TV
Self
Would Like To Meet
2007Movie
George's Mum
I Am Bob
2007Movie
Marilyn Monroe Lookalike/Compere's Assistant
Confessions of a Diary Secretary
2007Movie
Tracey Temple
The Graham Norton Show
2007TV
Self
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007Movie
Self
The One Show
2006TV
Self - Guest
See No Evil: The Moors Murders
2006TV
Myra Hindley
The Street
2006TV
The Madness of the Dance
2006Movie
The Fear of Trilogy
2006Movie
Frozen
2005Movie
Ticket Attendant
Faith
2005Movie
Linda
Christmas Lights
2004Movie
Pauline
Shameless
2004TV
Veronica Fisher
Comedy Connections
2003TV
Early Doors
2003TV
Janice
All or Nothing
2002Movie
Party girl
Timeshift
2002TV
Self - Narrator
Hamilton Mattress
2002Movie
Lulu (voice)
Linda Green
2001TV
Receptionist
Messiah
2001TV
DS Vickie Clarke
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
2000Movie
Self
Clocking Off
2000TV
Marie Leach
At Home with the Braithwaites
2000TV
Trixie Fletcher
Sunburn
1999TV
Sue
dinnerladies
1998TV
Twinkle
Girls' Night
1998Movie
Sharon
Jonathan Creek
1997TV
Marion Cretiss
Dalziel and Pascoe
1996TV
Dr Allison Laurie
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
1996TV
Photocopy Assistant
ChuckleVision
1987TV
The South Bank Show
1978TV
First Day on Earth
TV
Helen
The Bright Side Running Club
Movie
Obsession: The Beryl Burton Story
Movie
Self
The Unheard
TV