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