Maxine Peake
Acting
🎂 1974-07-14
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.
Cast credits(111)
Self
2007
Bella
2011
Self - Narrator
2002
Self
2007
Kalina Kalfus (voice)
2021
1987
Nadia
2014
Elizabeth Lilburne
2008
Photocopy Assistant
1996
Older Dolours Price
2024
Marion Cretiss
1997
Doll Tearsheet
2012
Anna Politkovskaya
2025
Self - Guest
2018
1996
Juliet Miller
2008
2009
Anne Williams
2022
2004
Veronica Fisher
2004
Twinkle
1998
Martha Costello
2011
Janice
2003
Narrator
2024
2003
Grace Middleton
2013
Self - Actrice (Rules of the Game, Anne)
2022
Alice Aisgill
2012
Sadie
2018
Marie Leach
2000
Sam Thompson
2022
Self - Presenter
2015
Elaine Mason
2014
Sara Rowbotham
2017
Miss Wade
2008
2006
2008
Miss Fozzard
2020
DS Vickie Clarke
2001
Irmgard Klaxon (voice)
2022
Myra Hindley
2006
Sue
1999
Receptionist
2001
Party girl
2002
Nellie
2018
Eileen Lamont
2015
Barbara
2023
Helen
2024
Helen Marshall
2009
Hazel Peaceful
2012
Titania
2016
Self
2017
Fanny Lye
2019
Self
2007
Ticket Attendant
2005
Elen
2018
Angela
2008
Self (archive footage)
2017
Anne Lister
2010
Isabel
2012
Angie
2013
Tish Murtha (voice)
2023
Funny Cow
2018
Charlotte
2014
Sharon
1998
Pauline
2004
Hamlet
2015
Narrator
2017
Joan Le Mesurier
2008
Linda
2005
Rebekah Brooks
2016
Self
2000
Linda Ryder
Friedrich Engels (voice)
2018
2017
Lulu (voice)
2002
Self
2024
Vanetia
2014
Tracey Temple
2007
2017
Grown Up Mia
2016
Judy
2019
Scoot Piccolo
2022
Maggie
2011
Helen Bach
2015
Celia
2013
Miriam
2020
Self- Presenter
2022
2019
Elly
2010
Marilyn Monroe Lookalike/Compere's Assistant
2007
WPC Kate McFay
2008
Jane
2015
2006
Fiona Lacey
2023
Emma
2017
Pauline
2010
Alix
2020
2006
Sarah
2017
2021
Narrator (voice)
2018
Herself
2018
Mother
2013
Narrator (voice)
2022
Narrator
2016
George's Mum
2007
2022
Self - Narrator
2020
