Maxine Peake
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.
Born: 14 July 1974
Played In
Last Seen
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)
Inner Polar Bear
Narrator (voice)
Lapushka!
Scoot Piccolo
Something Out of Nothing
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)
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
Be Still My Beating Heart
Judy
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
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
Hamlet
Artsnight
Self - Presenter
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
The Heart Fails Without Warning
Mother
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
Imaginary Friend
Pauline
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 Alan Titchmarsh Show
Self
Would Like To Meet
George's Mum
I Am Bob
Marilyn Monroe Lookalike/Compere's Assistant
Confessions of a Diary Secretary
Tracey Temple
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 Madness of the Dance
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
Twisting My Melon
Linda Ryder
The Bright Side Running Club
First Day on Earth
Helen