Maxine Peake
Acting
🎂 1974-07-14
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.
Cast credits(114)
Bella
2011
Self
2007
Nadia
2014
2004
Veronica Fisher
2004
Kalina Kalfus (voice)
2021
Marion Cretiss
1997
1996
Older Dolours Price
2024
Self - Narrator
2002
Self
2007
Doll Tearsheet
2012
Elaine Mason
2014
Martha Costello
2011
Photocopy Assistant
1996
Self - Guest
2018
Susan Blower
2020
Scoot Piccolo
2022
2006
Marie Leach
2000
Miss Wade
2008
Irmgard Klaxon (voice)
2022
2009
Tracey Temple
2007
Grace Middleton
2013
Twinkle
1998
Elizabeth Lilburne
2008
Party girl
2002
Anna Politkovskaya
2025
Helen Marshall
2009
Fanny Lye
2019
Marilyn Monroe Lookalike/Compere's Assistant
2007
Eileen Lamont
2015
Linda
2005
DS Vickie Clarke
2001
Nellie
2018
1987
Juliet Miller
2008
Anne Williams
2022
Sara Rowbotham
2017
Funny Cow
2018
Pauline
2004
Angie
2013
Barbara
2023
Janice
2003
Celia
2013
Isabel
2012
Anne Lister
2010
Receptionist
2001
Self - Actrice (Rules of the Game, Anne)
2022
Fiona Lacey
2023
Emma
2017
Hazel Peaceful
2012
2008
Rebekah Brooks
2016
Helen
2024
Self
2000
Angela
2008
Sadie
2018
Charlotte
2014
Sue
1999
Alice Aisgill
2012
WPC Kate McFay
2008
2003
Miss Fozzard
2020
Elen
2018
Joan Le Mesurier
2008
Narrator
2025
Dottie Achenbach
2025
Self
2025
Sharon
1998
Titania
2016
Lulu (voice)
2002
Hamlet
2015
2017
Sam Thompson
2022
Tish Murtha (voice)
2023
Self
2017
Self - Presenter
2015
Vanetia
2014
Judy
2019
Linda Ryder
Narrator
2024
Friedrich Engels (voice)
2018
George's Mum
2007
Self
2007
Ticket Attendant
2005
Pauline
2010
Narrator
2016
Jane
2015
Self
2024
Grown Up Mia
2016
Miriam
2020
2006
Herself
2018
2017
Maggie
2011
Helen Bach
2015
Elly
2010
Self- Presenter
2022
Sarah
2017
Self (archive footage)
2017
Narrator (voice)
2022
Narrator (voice)
2018
Myra Hindley
2006
Self - Narrator
2020
2019
Mother
2013
Narrator
2017
Alix
2020
2021
2006
2022
