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Maxine Peake

Maxine Peake

Acting July 14, 1974 (52 years old) Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, UK

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.

Movies 76

I Swear 8.3

I Swear

as Dottie

2025
The Theory of Everything 7.8

The Theory of Everything

as Elaine Mason

2014
Wendell & Wild 6.6

Wendell & Wild

as Irmgard Klaxon (voice)

2022
All or Nothing 7.1

All or Nothing

as Party girl

2002
Fanny Lye Deliver'd 6.2

Fanny Lye Deliver'd

as Fanny Lye

2019
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980 6.9

Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980

as Helen Marshall

2009
Words of War 6.9

Words of War

as Anna Politkovskaya

2025
Peterloo 6.7

Peterloo

as Nellie

2018
The Falling 5.1

The Falling

as Eileen Lamont

2015
Clubbed 6.7

Clubbed

as Angela

2008
Private Peaceful 6.6

Private Peaceful

as Hazel Peaceful

2012
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister 6.5

The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister

as Anne Lister

2010
A Midsummer Night's Dream 5.3

A Midsummer Night's Dream

as Titania

2016
Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough 7.0

Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough

as Narrator

2025
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas

as Self

2007
Girls' Night 6.8

Girls' Night

as Sharon

1998
Funny Cow 6.3

Funny Cow

as Funny Cow

2018
Svengali 5.4

Svengali

as Angie

2013
Wonders of the Moon 6.7

Wonders of the Moon

as Narrator (voice)

2018
Best Laid Plans 5.5

Best Laid Plans

as Isabel

2012
Frozen 5.9

Frozen

as Ticket Attendant

2005
The Real Anne: Unfinished Business

The Real Anne: Unfinished Business

as Self- Presenter

2022
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings 7.0

Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings

as Self

2000
Red Top 5.3

Red Top

as Rebekah Brooks

2016
Dance First 6.6

Dance First

as Barbara

2023
Hamlet 8.2

Hamlet

as Hamlet

2015
Gwen 5.4

Gwen

as Elen

2018
Men Who Sleep in Cars

Men Who Sleep in Cars

as Sarah

2017
Faith 9.0

Faith

as Linda

2005
The Occupant of the Room

The Occupant of the Room

as The Englishwoman (voice)

2025
Christmas Lights 5.6

Christmas Lights

as Pauline

2004
Choked Up 7.5

Choked Up

as Fiona Lacey

2023
Woken 5.4

Woken

as Helen

2024
Confessions of a Diary Secretary

Confessions of a Diary Secretary

as Tracey Temple

2007
Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels 0.5

Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels

as Friedrich Engels (voice)

2018
Keeping Up with the Joneses 5.9

Keeping Up with the Joneses

as Celia

2013
Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods 7.2

Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods

as Self (archive footage)

2017
Quiet on Set: The Class Division in the Film Industry?

Quiet on Set: The Class Division in the Film Industry?

as Self

2025
Tish 9.0

Tish

as Tish Murtha (voice)

2023
Generation '66 7.0

Generation '66

as Narrator

2016
Keeping Rosy 5.4

Keeping Rosy

as Charlotte

2014
The Shuttleworths

The Shuttleworths

as Helen Bach

2015
Unseen

Unseen

as Emma

2017
The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca

The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca

as Self

2018
Becoming Victoria Wood 6.0

Becoming Victoria Wood

as Self

2026
Be Still My Beating Heart 1.0

Be Still My Beating Heart

2019
Obsession: The Beryl Burton Story

Obsession: The Beryl Burton Story

as Self

2026
DeafBlind

DeafBlind

as Maggie

2011
Laundreams

Laundreams

2025
Where We Used to Meet

Where We Used to Meet

2021
Hancock & Joan 4.1

Hancock & Joan

as Joan Le Mesurier

2008
I Am Bob 7.5

I Am Bob

as Marilyn Monroe Lookalike/Compere's Assistant

2007
Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle 4.0

Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle

as Narrator

2017
The Bright Side Running Club

The Bright Side Running Club

Run & Jump 5.9

Run & Jump

as Vanetia

2014
Edge 6.0

Edge

as Elly

2010
Surfaces

Surfaces

as Alix

2020
Art Matters 10.0

Art Matters

as Self

2024
The Heart Fails Without Warning

The Heart Fails Without Warning

as Mother

2013
I Wish For You

I Wish For You

as Grown Up Mia

2016
Something Out of Nothing

Something Out of Nothing

2022
The Great Mountain Sheep Gather 7.0

The Great Mountain Sheep Gather

as Self - Narrator

2020
Hamilton Mattress 6.8

Hamilton Mattress

as Lulu (voice)

2002
Strange Weather

Strange Weather

as Jane

2015
Crackula

Crackula

2026
Cake 5.3

Cake

2017
Would Like To Meet 10.0

Would Like To Meet

as George's Mum

2007
Lapushka!

Lapushka!

as Scoot Piccolo

2022
Bike Squad

Bike Squad

as WPC Kate McFay

2008
Inner Polar Bear

Inner Polar Bear

as Narrator (voice)

2022
The Priest

The Priest

2017
The Madness of the Dance 6.5

The Madness of the Dance

2006
It's Me

It's Me

as Miriam

2020
Imaginary Friend 8.0

Imaginary Friend

as Pauline

2010
Judy

Judy

as Judy

2019
The Fear of Trilogy

The Fear of Trilogy

2006

TV Shows 50

The Graham Norton Show 7.2

The Graham Norton Show

as Self

2007
The One Show 4.3

The One Show

as Self - Guest

2006
Black Mirror 8.3

Black Mirror

as Bella

2011
The South Bank Show 5.6

The South Bank Show

1978
Shameless 7.5

Shameless

as Veronica Fisher

2004
Inside No. 9 8.1

Inside No. 9

as Nadia

2014
The Alan Titchmarsh Show 4.5

The Alan Titchmarsh Show

as Self

2007
Dalziel and Pascoe 6.4

Dalziel and Pascoe

as Dr Allison Laurie

1996
Star Wars: Visions 7.1

Star Wars: Visions

as Kalina Kalfus (voice)

2021
ChuckleVision 6.3

ChuckleVision

1987
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer 7.0

The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer

as Self - Guest

2018
Last Seen 7.6

Last Seen

as Jenna Reid

2026
Jonathan Creek 7.6

Jonathan Creek

as Marion Cretiss

1997
Silk 7.5

Silk

as Martha Costello QC

2011
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates 7.3

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

as Photocopy Assistant

1996
Bait 6.6

Bait

as Helen

2026
The Hollow Crown 7.4

The Hollow Crown

as Doll Tearsheet

2012
Timeshift 7.0

Timeshift

as Self - Narrator

2002
Say Nothing 7.5

Say Nothing

as Older Dolours Price

2024
The Street 7.6

The Street

2006
At Home with the Braithwaites 6.5

At Home with the Braithwaites

as Trixie Fletcher

2000
Little Dorrit 7.9

Little Dorrit

as Miss Wade

2008
Mandy 7.5

Mandy

as Susan Blower

2020
Clocking Off 7.6

Clocking Off

as Marie Leach

2000
dinnerladies 7.5

dinnerladies

as Twinkle

1998
The Village 7.3

The Village

as Grace Middleton

2013
Comedy Connections 6.5

Comedy Connections

2003
Criminal Justice 7.6

Criminal Justice

as Juliet Miller

2008
Messiah 7.4

Messiah

as DS Vickie Clarke

2001
Early Doors 7.8

Early Doors

as Janice

2003
Red Riding 7.2

Red Riding

2009
The Devil's Whore 6.8

The Devil's Whore

as Elizabeth Lilburne

2008
Sunburn 4.8

Sunburn

as Sue

1999
Three Girls 7.3

Three Girls

as Sara Rowbotham

2017
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads 7.6

Alan Bennett's Talking Heads

as Miss Fozzard

2020
Linda Green 7.4

Linda Green

as Receptionist

2001
Fairy Tales

Fairy Tales

as Cindy Mellor

2008
Art That Made Us 5.5

Art That Made Us

as Self - Actrice (Rules of the Game, Anne)

2022
The Bisexual 6.4

The Bisexual

as Sadie

2018
We Have Been Watching

We Have Been Watching

as Self

2017
Anne 7.0

Anne

as Anne Williams

2022
Artsnight

Artsnight

as Self - Presenter

2015
Room at the Top 6.9

Room at the Top

as Alice Aisgill

2012
Dinnerladies Diaries 9.0

Dinnerladies Diaries

as Self

2018
Rules of the Game 6.2

Rules of the Game

as Sam Thompson

2022
The Unheard

The Unheard

The Haunted Season

The Haunted Season

as The Englishwoman (voice)

2024
Secret Life of the Safari Park

Secret Life of the Safari Park

as Narrator

2024
First Day on Earth

First Day on Earth

as Helen

See No Evil: The Moors Murders 6.3

See No Evil: The Moors Murders

as Myra Hindley

2006

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