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