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Maxine Peake

Maxine Peake

Actor · Born 1974-07-14 · Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, UK

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Biography

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.

Movies & TV Shows

  1. The Theory of Everything (2014) — Elaine Mason
  2. Black Mirror (2011) — Bella
  3. Star Wars: Visions (2021) — Kalina Kalfus (voice)
  4. I Swear (2025) — Dottie
  5. Wendell & Wild (2022) — Irmgard Klaxon (voice)
  6. The Graham Norton Show (2007) — Self
  7. Inside No. 9 (2014) — Nadia
  8. Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980 (2009) — Helen Marshall
  9. The Falling (2015) — Eileen Lamont
  10. All or Nothing (2002) — Party girl
  11. Peterloo (2018) — Nellie
  12. Shameless (2004) — Veronica Fisher
  13. Say Nothing (2024) — Older Dolours Price
  14. The Hollow Crown (2012) — Doll Tearsheet
  15. Little Dorrit (2008) — Miss Wade
  16. Jonathan Creek (1997) — Marion Cretiss
  17. Clubbed (2008) — Angela
  18. Gwen (2018) — Elen
  19. The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister (2010) — Anne Lister
  20. Fanny Lye Deliver'd (2019) — Fanny Lye
  21. Three Girls (2017) — Sara Rowbotham
  22. Silk (2011) — Martha Costello QC
  23. The Devil's Whore (2008) — Elizabeth Lilburne
  24. Private Peaceful (2012) — Hazel Peaceful
  25. Mandy (2020) — Susan Blower
  26. Bait (2026) — Helen
  27. See No Evil: The Moors Murders (2006) — Myra Hindley
  28. dinnerladies (1998) — Twinkle
  29. Funny Cow (2018) — Funny Cow
  30. Words of War (2025) — Anna Politkovskaya
  31. Svengali (2013) — Angie
  32. The Bisexual (2018) — Sadie
  33. Best Laid Plans (2012) — Isabel
  34. The One Show (2006) — Self - Guest
  35. Woken (2024) — Helen
  36. Run & Jump (2014) — Vanetia
  37. Criminal Justice (2008) — Juliet Miller
  38. Early Doors (2003) — Janice
  39. Messiah (2001) — DS Vickie Clarke
  40. Dance First (2023) — Barbara

Directed

  1. Incompatible (2022) — Director
  2. The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca (2018) — Director