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