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