Maxine Peake
July 14, 1974 (50 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 · Say Nothing as Older Dolours Price
- 2024 · Art Matters as Self
- 2024 · Woken as Helen
- 2024 · Secret Life of the Safari Park as Narrator
- 2023 · Tish as Tish Murtha (voice)
- 2023 · Dance First as Barbara
- 2023 · Choked Up as Fiona Lacey
- 2022 · Wendell & Wild as Irmgard Klaxon (voice)
- 2022 · Inner Polar Bear as Narrator (voice)
- 2022 · Lapushka! as Scoot Piccolo
- 2022 · Something Out of Nothing as
- 2022 · Art That Made Us as Self - Actrice (Rules of the Game, Anne)
- 2022 · Rules of the Game as Sam Thompson
- 2022 · The Real Anne: Unfinished Business as Self- Presenter
- 2022 · Anne as Anne Williams
- 2021 · Where We Used to Meet as
- 2021 · Star Wars: Visions as Kalina Kalfus (voice)
- 2020 · Alan Bennett's Talking Heads as Miss Fozzard
- 2020 · Surfaces as Alix
- 2020 · The Great Mountain Sheep Gather as Self - Narrator
- 2020 · It's Me as Miriam
- 2019 · Fanny Lye Deliver'd as Fanny Lye
- 2019 · Be Still My Beating Heart as
- 2019 · Judy as Judy
- 2018 · Peterloo as Nellie
- 2018 · The Bisexual as Sadie
- 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 · Three Girls as Sara Rowbotham
- 2017 · Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods as Self (archive footage)
- 2017 · We Have Been Watching as Self
- 2016 · Generation '66 as Narrator
- 2016 · A Midsummer Night's Dream as Titania
- 2016 · Red Top as Rebekah Brooks
- 2016 · I Wish For You as Grown Up Mia
- 2015 · The Falling as Eileen Lamont
- 2015 · Hamlet as Hamlet
- 2015 · Artsnight as Self - Presenter
- 2015 · Strange Weather as Jane
- 2015 · The Shuttleworths as Helen Bach
- 2014 · The Theory of Everything as Elaine Mason
- 2014 · Keeping Rosy as Charlotte
- 2014 · Inside No. 9 as Nadia
- 2014 · Run & Jump as Vanetia
- 2013 · Keeping Up with the Joneses as Celia
- 2013 · Svengali as Angie
- 2013 · The Village as Grace Middleton
- 2013 · The Heart Fails Without Warning as Mother
- 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 · DeafBlind as Maggie
- 2011 · Black Mirror as Bella
- 2011 · Silk as Martha Costello
- 2010 · Edge as Elly
- 2007 · Would Like To Meet as George's Mum
- 2006 · See No Evil: The Moors Murders as Myra Hindley
- 2006 · The Madness of the Dance as
- 2005 · Frozen as Ticket Attendant
- 2004 · Christmas Lights as Pauline
- 2000 · Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings as Self
- Future · Words of War as Anna Politkovskaya
- 2010 · Imaginary Friend as Pauline
- 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 · Hancock & Joan as Joan Le Mesurier
- 2008 · Fairy Tales as
- 2008 · Bike Squad as WPC Kate McFay
- 2007 · The Alan Titchmarsh Show as Self
- 2007 · I Am Bob as Marilyn Monroe Lookalike/Compere's Assistant
- 2007 · Confessions of a Diary Secretary as Tracey Temple
- 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self
- 2007 · The 50 Greatest Television Dramas as Self
- 2006 · The Street as
- 1998 · Girls' Night as Sharon
- Future · I Swear as
- 2006 · The Fear of Trilogy as
- 2005 · Faith as Linda
- 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
- 2002 · Hamilton Mattress as Lulu (voice)
- 2001 · Linda Green as Receptionist
- 2001 · Messiah as DS Vickie Clarke
- 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 · Twisting My Melon as Linda Ryder