Maxine Peake
Acting
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
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tvBait
2026
Helen
movieThe Occupant of the Room
2025
The Englishwoman (voice)
movieI Swear
2025
Dottie
movieWords of War
2025
Anna Politkovskaya
tvThe Haunted Season
2024
The Englishwoman (voice)
tvSay Nothing
2024
Older Dolours Price
movieWoken
2024
Helen
movieTish
2023
Tish Murtha (voice)
movieDance First
2023
Barbara
movieChoked Up
2023
Fiona Lacey
movieWendell & Wild
2022
Irmgard Klaxon (voice)
Inner Polar Bear
2022
Narrator (voice)
movieLapushka!
2022
Scoot Piccolo
tvArt That Made Us
2022
Self - Actrice (Rules of the Game, Anne)
tvRules of the Game
2022
Sam Thompson
movieThe Real Anne: Unfinished Business
2022
Self- Presenter
tvAnne
2022
Anne Williams
tvStar Wars: Visions
2021
Kalina Kalfus (voice)
tvMandy
2020
Susan Blower
tvAlan Bennett's Talking Heads
2020
Miss Fozzard
movieThe Great Mountain Sheep Gather
2020
Self - Narrator
movieIt's Me
2020
Miriam
movieFanny Lye Deliver'd
2019
Fanny Lye
movieJudy
2019
Judy
moviePeterloo
2018
Nellie
tvThe Bisexual
2018
Sadie
movieGwen
2018
Elen
movieCeremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels
2018
Friedrich Engels (voice)
movieFunny Cow
2018
Funny Cow
movieWonders of the Moon
2018
Narrator (voice)
movieUnseen
2017
Emma
tvThree Girls
2017
Sara Rowbotham
movieBunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods
2017
Self (archive footage)
movieGeneration '66
2016
Narrator
movieRed Top
2016
Rebekah Brooks
movieI Wish For You
2016
Grown Up Mia
movieThe Falling
2015
Eileen Lamont
movieHamlet
2015
Hamlet
Artsnight
2015
Self - Presenter
movieThe Shuttleworths
2015
Helen Bach
movieThe Theory of Everything
2014
Elaine Mason
movieKeeping Rosy
2014
Charlotte
tvInside No. 9
2014
Nadia
movieRun & Jump
2014
Vanetia
movieSvengali
2013
Angie
tvThe Village
2013
Grace Middleton
moviePrivate Peaceful
2012
Hazel Peaceful
tvRoom at the Top
2012
Alice Aisgill
tvThe Hollow Crown
2012
Doll Tearsheet
movieBest Laid Plans
2012
Isabel
movieDeafBlind
2011
Maggie
tvBlack Mirror
2011
Bella
tvSilk
2011
Martha Costello QC
movieEdge
2010
Elly
movieRed Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
2009
Helen Marshall
tvThe Devil's Whore
2008
Elizabeth Lilburne
tvLittle Dorrit
2008
Miss Wade
movieClubbed
2008
Angela
tvCriminal Justice
2008
Juliet Miller
movieHancock & Joan
2008
Joan Le Mesurier
tvFairy Tales
2008
Cindy Mellor
movieBike Squad
2008
WPC Kate McFay
Would Like To Meet
2007
George's Mum
I Am Bob
2007
Marilyn Monroe Lookalike/Compere's Assistant
tvThe One Show
2006
Self - Guest
tvSee No Evil: The Moors Murders
2006
Myra Hindley
movieFrozen
2005
Ticket Attendant
movieFaith
2005
Linda
movieChristmas Lights
2004
Pauline
tvShameless
2004
Veronica Fisher
tvEarly Doors
2003
Janice
movieAll or Nothing
2002
Party girl
tvTimeshift
2002
Self - Narrator
movieHamilton Mattress
2002
Lulu (voice)
tvLinda Green
2001
Receptionist
tvMessiah
2001
DS Vickie Clarke
tvClocking Off
2000
Marie Leach
tvdinnerladies
1998
Twinkle
movieGirls' Night
1998
Sharon
tvJonathan Creek
1997
Marion Cretiss
tvHetty Wainthropp Investigates
1996
Photocopy Assistant
movieTwisting My Melon
Linda Ryder
Directing2
Production2
movieFunny Cow
2018
Executive Producer
Crew1
movieDoughnut
2021
Thanks
Writing1
movieThe Priest
2017
Writer