Maxine Peake

Actor

Born July 14, 1974 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.

Filmography

Twisting My Melon

Linda Ryder

Bait

Helen

Becoming Victoria Wood

Self

Laundreams

The Occupant of the Room

The Englishwoman (voice)

Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough

Narrator

I Swear

Dottie

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

Self

Words of War

Anna Politkovskaya

The Haunted Season

The Englishwoman (voice)

Say Nothing

Older Dolours Price

Art Matters

Self

Woken

Helen

Secret Life of the Safari Park

Narrator

Tish

Tish Murtha (voice)

Dance First

Barbara

Choked Up

Fiona Lacey

Wendell & Wild

Irmgard Klaxon (voice)

Lapushka!

Scoot Piccolo

Something Out of Nothing

Incompatible

Art That Made Us

Self - Actrice (Rules of the Game, Anne)

Rules of the Game

Sam Thompson

The Real Anne: Unfinished Business

Self- Presenter

Anne

Anne Williams

Where We Used to Meet

Star Wars: Visions

Kalina Kalfus (voice)

Doughnut

Mandy

Susan Blower

Alan Bennett's Talking Heads

Miss Fozzard

Surfaces

Alix

The Great Mountain Sheep Gather

Self - Narrator

It's Me

Miriam

Fanny Lye Deliver'd

Fanny Lye

Judy

Peterloo

Nellie

The Bisexual

Sadie

The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca

Self

Gwen

Elen

Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels

Friedrich Engels (voice)

Funny Cow

Dinnerladies Diaries

Self

The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer

Self - Guest

Wonders of the Moon

Narrator (voice)

The Priest

Men Who Sleep in Cars

Sarah

Cake

Unseen

Emma

Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle

Narrator

Three Girls

Sara Rowbotham

Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods

Self (archive footage)

We Have Been Watching

Self

Generation '66

Narrator

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Titania

Red Top

Rebekah Brooks

I Wish For You

Grown Up Mia

The Falling

Eileen Lamont

Hamlet

Strange Weather

Jane

The Shuttleworths

Helen Bach

The Theory of Everything

Elaine Mason

Keeping Rosy

Charlotte

Inside No. 9

Nadia

Run & Jump

Vanetia

Keeping Up with the Joneses

Celia

Svengali

Angie

The Village

Grace Middleton

Private Peaceful

Hazel Peaceful

Room at the Top

Alice Aisgill

The Hollow Crown

Doll Tearsheet

Best Laid Plans

Isabel

DeafBlind

Maggie

Black Mirror

Bella

Silk

Martha Costello QC

Edge

Elly

The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister

Anne Lister

Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980

Helen Marshall

Red Riding

The Devil's Whore

Elizabeth Lilburne

Little Dorrit

Miss Wade

Clubbed

Angela

Criminal Justice

Juliet Miller

Hancock & Joan

Joan Le Mesurier

Fairy Tales

Cindy Mellor

Bike Squad

WPC Kate McFay

The Graham Norton Show

Self

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas

Self

The One Show

Self - Guest

See No Evil: The Moors Murders

Myra Hindley

The Street

The Fear of Trilogy

Frozen

Ticket Attendant

Faith

Linda

Christmas Lights

Pauline

Shameless

Veronica Fisher

Comedy Connections

Early Doors

Janice

All or Nothing

Party girl

Timeshift

Self - Narrator

Hamilton Mattress

Lulu (voice)

Linda Green

Receptionist

Messiah

DS Vickie Clarke

Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings

Self

Clocking Off

Marie Leach

Sunburn

Sue

dinnerladies

Twinkle

Girls' Night

Sharon

Jonathan Creek

Marion Cretiss

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

Photocopy Assistant

ChuckleVision