Maxine Peake
Known for Acting · 121 credits
- Born
- 1974-07-14 (age 52)
- Place of birth
- Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, UK
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.
Known For
TV Shows (46)
Black Mirror
2011
as Bella
The Graham Norton Show
2007
as Self
The One Show
2006
as Self - Guest
Shameless
2004
as Veronica Fisher
Star Wars: Visions
2021
as Kalina Kalfus (voice)
Silk
2011
as Martha Costello QC
Inside No. 9
2014
as Nadia
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
2007
as Self
Jonathan Creek
1997
as Marion Cretiss
ChuckleVision
1987
Bait
2026
as Helen
Timeshift
2002
as Self - Narrator
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
1996
as Photocopy Assistant
The Hollow Crown
2012
as Doll Tearsheet
The Village
2013
as Grace Middleton
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
2018
as Self - Guest
Clocking Off
2000
as Marie Leach
Say Nothing
2024
as Older Dolours Price
Comedy Connections
2003
Little Dorrit
2008
as Miss Wade
Criminal Justice
2008
as Juliet Miller
Mandy
2020
as Susan Blower
dinnerladies
1998
as Twinkle
Last Seen
2026
Red Riding
2009
Anne
2022
as Anne Williams
The Street
2006
The Bisexual
2018
as Sadie
The Devil's Whore
2008
as Elizabeth Lilburne
Messiah
2001
as DS Vickie Clarke
Early Doors
2003
as Janice
Artsnight
2015
as Self - Presenter
Sunburn
1999
as Sue
Three Girls
2017
as Sara Rowbotham
Linda Green
2001
as Receptionist
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
2020
as Miss Fozzard
Fairy Tales
2008
as Cindy Mellor
Art That Made Us
2022
as Self - Actrice (Rules of the Game, Anne)
Dinnerladies Diaries
2018
as Self
Room at the Top
2012
as Alice Aisgill
Rules of the Game
2022
as Sam Thompson
We Have Been Watching
2017
as Self
First Day on Earth
as Helen
Secret Life of the Safari Park
2024
as Narrator
The Haunted Season
2024
as The Englishwoman (voice)
See No Evil: The Moors Murders
2006
as Myra Hindley
Movies (75)
I Swear
2025
as Dottie
The Theory of Everything
2014
as Elaine Mason
Funny Cow
2018
as Funny Cow
Run & Jump
2014
as Vanetia
All or Nothing
2002
as Party girl
Wendell & Wild
2022
as Irmgard Klaxon (voice)
Red Top
2016
as Rebekah Brooks
Fanny Lye Deliver'd
2019
as Fanny Lye
Be Still My Beating Heart
2019
Choked Up
2023
as Fiona Lacey
The Shuttleworths
2015
as Helen Bach
Generation '66
2016
as Narrator
Wonders of the Moon
2018
as Narrator (voice)
Best Laid Plans
2012
as Isabel
Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough
2025
as Narrator
Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle
2017
as Narrator
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
2009
as Helen Marshall
A Midsummer Night's Dream
2016
as Titania
Words of War
2025
as Anna Politkovskaya
Faith
2005
as Linda
The Falling
2015
as Eileen Lamont
Imaginary Friend
2010
as Pauline
Strange Weather
2015
as Jane
Frozen
2005
as Ticket Attendant
Keeping Rosy
2014
as Charlotte
Hamilton Mattress
2002
as Lulu (voice)
Svengali
2013
as Angie
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
2000
as Self
Girls' Night
1998
as Sharon
Private Peaceful
2012
as Hazel Peaceful
Dance First
2023
as Barbara
Christmas Lights
2004
as Pauline
Becoming Victoria Wood
2026
as Self
Peterloo
2018
as Nellie
Hancock & Joan
2008
as Joan Le Mesurier
Art Matters
2024
as Self
Men Who Sleep in Cars
2017
as Sarah
Confessions of a Diary Secretary
2007
as Tracey Temple
Twisting My Melon
as Linda Ryder
I Wish For You
2016
as Grown Up Mia
The Real Anne: Unfinished Business
2022
as Self- Presenter
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007
as Self
Inner Polar Bear
2022
as Narrator (voice)
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
2010
as Anne Lister
The Heart Fails Without Warning
2013
as Mother
Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods
2017
as Self (archive footage)
Laundreams
2025
Unseen
2017
as Emma
Clubbed
2008
as Angela
Gwen
2018
as Elen
The Bright Side Running Club
Edge
2010
as Elly
I Am Bob
2007
as Marilyn Monroe Lookalike/Compere's Assistant
Tish
2023
as Tish Murtha (voice)
Keeping Up with the Joneses
2013
as Celia
Where We Used to Meet
2021
DeafBlind
2011
as Maggie
Would Like To Meet
2007
as George's Mum
Bike Squad
2008
as WPC Kate McFay
Cake
2017
The Priest
2017
The Fear of Trilogy
2006
Hamlet
2015
as Hamlet
Woken
2024
as Helen
Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels
2018
as Friedrich Engels (voice)
The Great Mountain Sheep Gather
2020
as Self - Narrator
Surfaces
2020
as Alix
Something Out of Nothing
2022
It's Me
2020
as Miriam
The Occupant of the Room
2025
as The Englishwoman (voice)
The Madness of the Dance
2006
Quiet on Set: The Class Division in the Film Industry?
2025
as Self
Judy
2019
as Judy
Lapushka!
2022
as Scoot Piccolo
The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca
2018
as Self
About 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… With 121 credits spanning from 1987 to 2026, Maxine Peake has appeared in 75 films and 46 TV shows.
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Most Popular Maxine Peake Movies
- I Swear (2025) — as Dottie
- The Theory of Everything (2014) — as Elaine Mason
- Funny Cow (2018) — as Funny Cow
- Run & Jump (2014) — as Vanetia
- All or Nothing (2002) — as Party girl
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