Maxine Peake


    Starbirth:
    July 14, 1974
Birthplace:
Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, UK
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Overview

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.


MOVIECHARACTERYEAR
Woken Helen 2024
Tish Tish Murtha (voice) 2023
Dance First Barbara 2023
Wendell & Wild Irmgard Klaxon (voice) 2022
Inner Polar Bear Narrator (voice) 2022
Lapushka! Scoot Piccolo 2022
Something Out of Nothing 2022
The Real Anne: Unfinished Business Self- Presenter 2022
Where We Used to Meet 2021
Fanny Lye Deliver'd Fanny Lye 2021
Surfaces Alix 2020
The Great Mountain Sheep Gather Self - Narrator 2020
It's Me Miriam 2020
Be Still My Beating Heart 2019
Judy Judy 2019
Peterloo Nellie 2018
The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca Herself 2018
Gwen Elen 2018
Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels Friedrich Engels (voice) 2018
Funny Cow Funny Cow 2018
Wonders of the Moon Narrator (voice) 2018
The Priest 2017
Men Who Sleep in Cars Sarah 2017
Cake 2017
Unseen Emma 2017
Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle Narrator 2017
Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods Self (archive footage) 2017
Generation '66 Narrator 2016
A Midsummer Night's Dream Titania 2016
Red Top Rebekah Brooks 2016
I Wish For You Grown Up Mia 2016
The Falling Eileen Lamont 2015
Hamlet Hamlet 2015
Strange Weather Jane 2015
The Shuttleworths Helen Bach 2015
The Theory of Everything Elaine Mason 2014
Keeping Rosy Charlotte 2014
Run & Jump Vanetia 2014
Keeping Up with the Joneses Celia 2013
Svengali Angie 2013
The Heart Fails Without Warning Mother 2013
Private Peaceful Hazel Peaceful 2012
Best Laid Plans Isabel 2012
DeafBlind Maggie 2011
Edge Elly 2010
Imaginary Friend Pauline 2010
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister Anne Lister 2010
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980 Helen Marshall 2009
Clubbed Angela 2008
Hancock & Joan Joan Le Mesurier 2008
Would Like To Meet George's Mum 2007
I Am Bob Marilyn Monroe Lookalike/Compere's Assistant 2007
Confessions of a Diary Secretary Tracey Temple 2007
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas Self 2007
The Fear of Trilogy 2006
The Madness of the Dance 2006
Frozen Ticket Attendant 2005
Faith Linda 2005
Christmas Lights Pauline 2004
All or Nothing Party girl 2002
Hamilton Mattress Lulu (voice) 2002
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings 2000
Girls' Night Sharon 1998
Twisting My Melon Linda Ryder
Anna Anna Politkovskaya
SHOWCHARACTERYEAR
Dinnerladies Twinkle <mt>
Early Doors Janice <mt>
Jonathan Creek Marion Cretiss <mt>
Criminal Justice Juliet Miller <mt>
Silk Martha Costello <mt>
Shameless <blank> <mt>
ChuckleVision <blank> <mt>
Comedy Connections <blank> <mt>
Dalziel & Pascoe <blank> <mt>
Little Dorrit Miss Wade <mt>
Fairy Tales <blank> <mt>
The Alan Titchmarsh Show Self <mt>
The Street <blank> <mt>
The Village Grace Middleton <mt>
Artsnight Self - Presenter <mt>
Room at the Top Alice Aisgill <mt>
Messiah DS Vickie Clarke <mt>
Sunburn Sue <mt>
Clocking Off Marie Leach <mt>
Three Girls Sara Rowbotham <mt>
Black Mirror Bella <mt>
Shameless Veronica Fisher <mt>
See No Evil: The Moors Murders Myra Hindley <mt>
The Devil's Whore Elizabeth Lilburne <mt>
The Graham Norton Show Self <mt>
Linda Green Receptionist <mt>
The Bisexual Sadie <mt>
Anne Anne Williams <mt>
Inside No. 9 Nadia <mt>
We Have Been Watching Self <mt>
Timeshift Self - Narrator <mt>
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates Photocopy Assistant <mt>
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads Miss Fozzard <mt>
Rules of the Game Sam Thompson <mt>
Art That Made Us Self - Actrice (Rules of the Game, Anne) <mt>
The Hollow Crown Doll Tearsheet <mt>
Red Riding <blank> <mt>
Star Wars: Visions Kalina Kalfus (voice) <mt>
Secret Life of the Safari Park Narrator <mt>
Say Nothing <blank> <mt>
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