Maxine Peake
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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
Credits
I Swear (2025)
as Dottie
The Theory of Everything (2014)
as Elaine Mason
All or Nothing (2002)
as Party girl
Wendell & Wild (2022)
as Irmgard Klaxon (voice)
Funny Cow (2018)
as Funny Cow
Red Top (2016)
as Rebekah Brooks
Choked Up (2023)
as Fiona Lacey
Fanny Lye Deliver'd (2019)
as Fanny Lye
Strange Weather (2015)
as Jane
Run & Jump (2014)
as Vanetia
Be Still My Beating Heart (2019)
Actor
The Falling (2015)
as Eileen Lamont
Wonders of the Moon (2018)
as Narrator (voice)
The Shuttleworths (2015)
as Helen Bach
Words of War (2025)
as Anna Politkovskaya
Private Peaceful (2012)
as Hazel Peaceful
Imaginary Friend (2010)
as Pauline
Tish (2023)
as Tish Murtha (voice)
Frozen (2005)
as Ticket Attendant
Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough (2025)
as Narrator
Laundreams (2025)
Actor
Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle (2017)
as Narrator
Best Laid Plans (2012)
as Isabel
Svengali (2013)
as Angie
Becoming Victoria Wood (2026)
as Self
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980 (2009)
as Helen Marshall
Generation '66 (2016)
as Narrator
Clubbed (2008)
as Angela
Faith (2005)
as Linda
Peterloo (2018)
as Nellie
A Midsummer Night's Dream (2016)
as Titania
Twisting My Melon (—)
as Linda Ryder
Girls' Night (1998)
as Sharon
Inner Polar Bear (2022)
as Narrator (voice)
Surfaces (2020)
as Alix
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings (2000)
as Self
I Wish For You (2016)
as Grown Up Mia
Christmas Lights (2004)
as Pauline
Hamilton Mattress (2002)
as Lulu (voice)
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas (2007)
as Self
Keeping Rosy (2014)
as Charlotte
Dance First (2023)
as Barbara
The Real Anne: Unfinished Business (2022)
as Self- Presenter
DeafBlind (2011)
as Maggie
Hancock & Joan (2008)
as Joan Le Mesurier
I Am Bob (2007)
as Marilyn Monroe Lookalike/Compere's Assistant
Gwen (2018)
as Elen
Edge (2010)
as Elly
Hamlet (2015)
as Hamlet
Where We Used to Meet (2021)
Actor
The Great Mountain Sheep Gather (2020)
as Self - Narrator
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister (2010)
as Anne Lister
Art Matters (2024)
as Self
Cake (2017)
Actor
Men Who Sleep in Cars (2017)
as Sarah
Woken (2024)
as Helen
Unseen (2017)
as Emma
The Bright Side Running Club (—)
Actor
The Fear of Trilogy (2006)
Actor
The Heart Fails Without Warning (2013)
as Mother
Keeping Up with the Joneses (2013)
as Celia
Confessions of a Diary Secretary (2007)
as Tracey Temple
The Occupant of the Room (2025)
as The Englishwoman (voice)
It's Me (2020)
as Miriam
Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels (2018)
as Friedrich Engels (voice)
Would Like To Meet (2007)
as George's Mum
Bike Squad (2008)
as WPC Kate McFay
The Priest (2017)
Actor
Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods (2017)
as Self (archive footage)
Something Out of Nothing (2022)
Actor
Quiet on Set: The Class Division in the Film Industry? (2025)
as Self
The Madness of the Dance (2006)
Actor
Lapushka! (2022)
as Scoot Piccolo
The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca (2018)
as Self
Judy (2019)
as Judy