![Maxine Peake](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300//6H2yLBIQDWgDmBkS5exDHGlZgqt.jpg)
Maxine Peake
July 14, 1974 (49 years old) in Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, UK
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
Credits
- 2024 · Woken as Helen
- 2024 · Secret Life of the Safari Park as Narrator
- 2023 · Dance First as Barbara
- 2022 · Wendell & Wild as Irmgard Klaxon (voice)
- 2022 · Art That Made Us as Self - Actrice (Rules of the Game, Anne)
- 2022 · Rules of the Game as Sam Thompson
- 2022 · Anne as Anne Williams
- 2021 · Star Wars: Visions as Kalina Kalfus (voice)
- 2021 · Fanny Lye Deliver'd as Fanny Lye
- 2020 · Alan Bennett's Talking Heads as Miss Fozzard
- 2018 · Peterloo as Nellie
- 2018 · The Bisexual as Sadie
- 2017 · Three Girls as Sara Rowbotham
- 2017 · We Have Been Watching as Self
- 2016 · A Midsummer Night's Dream as Titania
- 2015 · The Falling as Eileen Lamont
- 2015 · Artsnight as Self - Presenter
- 2014 · The Theory of Everything as Elaine Mason
- 2014 · Inside No. 9 as Nadia
- 2013 · The Village as Grace Middleton
- 2012 · Private Peaceful as Hazel Peaceful
- 2012 · Room at the Top as Alice Aisgill
- 2012 · The Hollow Crown as Doll Tearsheet
- 2012 · Best Laid Plans as Isabel
- 2011 · Black Mirror as Bella
- 2011 · Silk as Martha Costello
- 2010 · The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister as Anne Lister
- 2009 · Red Riding as
- 2009 · Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980 as Helen Marshall
- 2008 · The Devil's Whore as Elizabeth Lilburne
- 2008 · Little Dorrit as Miss Wade
- 2008 · Clubbed as Angela
- 2008 · Criminal Justice as Juliet Miller
- 2008 · Fairy Tales as
- 2007 · The Alan Titchmarsh Show as Self
- 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self
- 2007 · The 50 Greatest Television Dramas as Self
- 2006 · The Street as
- 2004 · Christmas Lights as Pauline
- 2004 · Shameless as
- 2004 · Shameless as Veronica Fisher
- 2003 · Comedy Connections as
- 2003 · Early Doors as Janice
- 2002 · Timeshift as Self - Narrator
- 2002 · All or Nothing as Party girl
- 2001 · Linda Green as Receptionist
- 2001 · Messiah as DS Vickie Clarke
- 2000 · Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings as
- 2000 · Clocking Off as Marie Leach
- 1999 · Sunburn as Sue
- 1998 · Dinnerladies as Twinkle
- 1997 · Jonathan Creek as Marion Cretiss
- 1996 · Dalziel & Pascoe as
- 1996 · Hetty Wainthropp Investigates as Photocopy Assistant
- 1987 · ChuckleVision as
- Future · Say Nothing as Older Dolours Price
- 2023 · Tish as Tish Murtha (voice)
- 2023 · Choked Up as Fiona Lacey
- 2022 · Inner Polar Bear as Narrator (voice)
- 2022 · Lapushka! as Scoot Piccolo
- 2022 · Something Out of Nothing as
- 2022 · The Real Anne: Unfinished Business as Self- Presenter
- 2021 · Where We Used to Meet as
- 2020 · Surfaces as Alix
- 2020 · The Great Mountain Sheep Gather as Self - Narrator
- 2020 · It's Me as Miriam
- 2019 · Be Still My Beating Heart as
- 2019 · Judy as Judy
- 2018 · The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca as Herself
- 2018 · Gwen as Elen
- 2018 · Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels as Friedrich Engels (voice)
- 2018 · Funny Cow as Funny Cow
- 2018 · Wonders of the Moon as Narrator (voice)
- 2017 · The Priest as
- 2017 · Men Who Sleep in Cars as Sarah
- 2017 · Cake as
- 2017 · Unseen as Emma
- 2017 · Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle as Narrator
- 2017 · Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods as Self (archive footage)
- 2016 · Generation '66 as Narrator
- 2016 · Red Top as Rebekah Brooks
- 2016 · I Wish For You as Grown Up Mia
- 2015 · Hamlet as Hamlet
- 2015 · Strange Weather as Jane
- 2015 · The Shuttleworths as Helen Bach
- 2014 · Keeping Rosy as Charlotte
- 2014 · Run & Jump as Vanetia
- 2013 · Keeping Up with the Joneses as Celia
- 2013 · Svengali as Angie
- 2013 · The Heart Fails Without Warning as Mother
- 2011 · DeafBlind as Maggie
- 2010 · Edge as Elly
- 2010 · Imaginary Friend as Pauline
- 2008 · Hancock & Joan as Joan Le Mesurier
- 2008 · Bike Squad as WPC Kate McFay
- 2007 · Would Like To Meet as George's Mum
- 2007 · I Am Bob as Marilyn Monroe Lookalike/Compere's Assistant
- 2007 · Confessions of a Diary Secretary as Tracey Temple
- 2006 · See No Evil: The Moors Murders as Myra Hindley
- 2006 · The Fear of Trilogy as
- 2006 · The Madness of the Dance as
- 2005 · Frozen as Ticket Attendant
- 2005 · Faith as Linda
- 2002 · Hamilton Mattress as Lulu (voice)
- 1998 · Girls' Night as Sharon
- Future · Twisting My Melon as Linda Ryder
- Future · Words of War as Anna Politkovskaya