Maxine Peake
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Biography
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 ...
Known For
Filmography
Becoming Victoria Wood
2026
as Self
Crackula
2026
Last Seen
2026
as Jenna Reid
Bait
2026
as Helen
Words of War
2025
as Anna Politkovskaya
I Swear
2025
as Dottie
Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough
2025
as Narrator
Quiet on Set: The Class Division in the Film Industry?
2025
as Self
The Occupant of the Room
2025
as The Englishwoman (voice)
Laundreams
2025
Woken
2024
as Helen
Art Matters
2024
as Self
Secret Life of the Safari Park
2024
as Narrator
Say Nothing
2024
as Older Dolours Price
The Haunted Season
2024
as The Englishwoman (voice)
Dance First
2023
as Barbara
Tish
2023
as Tish Murtha (voice)
Choked Up
2023
as Fiona Lacey
The Real Anne: Unfinished Business
2022
as Self- Presenter
Wendell & Wild
2022
as Irmgard Klaxon (voice)
Something Out of Nothing
2022
Lapushka!
2022
as Scoot Piccolo
Inner Polar Bear
2022
as Narrator (voice)
Rules of the Game
2022
as Sam Thompson
Art That Made Us
2022
as Self - Actrice (Rules of the Game, Anne)
Anne
2022
as Anne Williams
Where We Used to Meet
2021
Star Wars: Visions
2021
as Kalina Kalfus (voice)
Surfaces
2020
as Alix
It's Me
2020
as Miriam
The Great Mountain Sheep Gather
2020
as Self - Narrator
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
2020
as Miss Fozzard
Mandy
2020
as Susan Blower
Judy
2019
as Judy
Fanny Lye Deliver'd
2019
as Fanny Lye
Be Still My Beating Heart
2019
Funny Cow
2018
as Funny Cow
Peterloo
2018
as Nellie
Wonders of the Moon
2018
as Narrator (voice)
Gwen
2018
as Elen
The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca
2018
as Self
Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels
2018
as Friedrich Engels (voice)
The Bisexual
2018
as Sadie
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
2018
as Self - Guest
Dinnerladies Diaries
2018
as Self
Men Who Sleep in Cars
2017
as Sarah
Cake
2017
The Priest
2017
Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle
2017
as Narrator
Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods
2017
as Self (archive footage)
Unseen
2017
as Emma
We Have Been Watching
2017
as Self
Three Girls
2017
as Sara Rowbotham
I Wish For You
2016
as Grown Up Mia
Generation '66
2016
as Narrator
Red Top
2016
as Rebekah Brooks
A Midsummer Night's Dream
2016
as Titania
Strange Weather
2015
as Jane
The Falling
2015
as Eileen Lamont
Hamlet
2015
as Hamlet
The Shuttleworths
2015
as Helen Bach
Artsnight
2015
as Self - Presenter
Run & Jump
2014
as Vanetia
The Theory of Everything
2014
as Elaine Mason
Keeping Rosy
2014
as Charlotte
Inside No. 9
2014
as Nadia
Svengali
2013
as Angie
Keeping Up with the Joneses
2013
as Celia
The Heart Fails Without Warning
2013
as Mother
The Village
2013
as Grace Middleton
Private Peaceful
2012
as Hazel Peaceful
Best Laid Plans
2012
as Isabel
Room at the Top
2012
as Alice Aisgill
The Hollow Crown
2012
as Doll Tearsheet
DeafBlind
2011
as Maggie
Black Mirror
2011
as Bella
Silk
2011
as Martha Costello QC
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
2010
as Anne Lister
Edge
2010
as Elly
Imaginary Friend
2010
as Pauline
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
2009
as Helen Marshall
Red Riding
2009
Clubbed
2008
as Angela
Hancock & Joan
2008
as Joan Le Mesurier
Bike Squad
2008
as WPC Kate McFay
Criminal Justice
2008
as Juliet Miller
Little Dorrit
2008
as Miss Wade
The Devil's Whore
2008
as Elizabeth Lilburne
Fairy Tales
2008
as Cindy Mellor
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007
as Self
I Am Bob
2007
as Marilyn Monroe Lookalike/Compere's Assistant
Confessions of a Diary Secretary
2007
as Tracey Temple
Would Like To Meet
2007
as George's Mum
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
2007
as Self
The Graham Norton Show
2007
as Self
The Madness of the Dance
2006
The Fear of Trilogy
2006
The Street
2006
See No Evil: The Moors Murders
2006
as Myra Hindley
The One Show
2006
as Self - Guest
Faith
2005
as Linda
Frozen
2005
as Ticket Attendant
Christmas Lights
2004
as Pauline
Shameless
2004
as Veronica Fisher
Early Doors
2003
as Janice
Comedy Connections
2003
All or Nothing
2002
as Party girl
Hamilton Mattress
2002
as Lulu (voice)
Timeshift
2002
as Self - Narrator
Messiah
2001
as DS Vickie Clarke
Linda Green
2001
as Receptionist
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
2000
as Self
Clocking Off
2000
as Marie Leach
At Home with the Braithwaites
2000
as Trixie Fletcher
Sunburn
1999
as Sue
Girls' Night
1998
as Sharon
dinnerladies
1998
as Twinkle
Jonathan Creek
1997
as Marion Cretiss
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
1996
as Photocopy Assistant
Dalziel and Pascoe
1996
as Dr Allison Laurie
ChuckleVision
1987