Maxine Peake
Birthday
1974/07/14 (50 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, UK
Also know as
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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 ...Read more
Acting
(2007) The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
as Self
(1998) Girls' Night
as Sharon
(2021) Where We Used to Meet
as ---
(2023) Dance First
as Barbara
Words of War
as Anna Politkovskaya
(2008) Clubbed
as Angela
(2010) The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
as Anne Lister
(2022) The Real Anne: Unfinished Business
as Self- Presenter
(2007) I Am Bob
as Marilyn Monroe Lookalike/Compere's Assistant
(2004) Christmas Lights
as Pauline
(2023) Tish
as Tish Murtha (voice)
(2022) Wendell & Wild
as Irmgard Klaxon (voice)
(2010) Edge
as Elly
(2024) Woken
as Helen
(2013) Svengali
as Angie
(2014) Run & Jump
as Vanetia
(2008) Hancock & Joan
as Joan Le Mesurier
(2014) The Theory of Everything
as Elaine Mason
(2007) Confessions of a Diary Secretary
as Tracey Temple
(2014) Keeping Rosy
as Charlotte
(2022) Something Out of Nothing
as ---
(2020) Surfaces
as Alix
(2016) I Wish For You
as Grown Up Mia
(2019) Judy
as Judy
(2020) It's Me
as Miriam
(2022) Lapushka!
as Scoot Piccolo
(2015) Strange Weather
as Jane
(2009) Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
as Helen Marshall
(2015) The Falling
as Eileen Lamont
(2022) Inner Polar Bear
as Narrator (voice)
(2015) Hamlet
as Hamlet
(2020) The Great Mountain Sheep Gather
as Self - Narrator
(2006) The Madness of the Dance
as ---
(2016) Generation '66
as Narrator
(2005) Faith
as Linda
(2016) Red Top
as Rebekah Brooks
(2000) Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
as Self
(2023) Choked Up
as Fiona Lacey
(2012) Private Peaceful
as Hazel Peaceful
(2008) Bike Squad
as WPC Kate McFay
(2002) All or Nothing
as Party girl
(2016) A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Titania
(2002) Hamilton Mattress
as Lulu (voice)
(2018) Funny Cow
as Funny Cow
(2024) Art Matters
as Self
(2013) Keeping Up with the Joneses
as Celia
(2012) Best Laid Plans
as Isabel
(2005) Frozen
as Ticket Attendant
I Swear
as ---
(2013) The Heart Fails Without Warning
as Mother
(2019) Fanny Lye Deliver'd
as Fanny Lye
(2007) Would Like To Meet
as George's Mum
(2010) Imaginary Friend
as Pauline
(2018) Peterloo
as Nellie
(2017) Men Who Sleep in Cars
as Sarah
(2018) Wonders of the Moon
as Narrator (voice)
(2017) Cake
as ---
(2011) DeafBlind
as Maggie
(2018) Gwen
as Elen
(2018) The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca
as Herself
(2017) The Priest
as ---
(2017) Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle
as Narrator
(2006) The Fear of Trilogy
as ---
(2015) The Shuttleworths
as Helen Bach
(2017) Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods
as Self (archive footage)
Twisting My Melon
as Linda Ryder
(2019) Be Still My Beating Heart
as ---
(2017) Unseen
as Emma
(2018) Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels
as Friedrich Engels (voice)
(1998) dinnerladies
as Twinkle
(2003) Early Doors
as Janice
(1987) ChuckleVision
as ---
(1997) Jonathan Creek
as Marion Cretiss
(2004) Shameless
as ---
(2003) Comedy Connections
as ---
(1996) Dalziel & Pascoe
as ---
(2017) We Have Been Watching
as Self
(2008) Criminal Justice
as Juliet Miller
(2008) Little Dorrit
as Miss Wade
(2008) Fairy Tales
as ---
(2007) The Alan Titchmarsh Show
as Self
(2006) The Street
as ---
(2021) Star Wars: Visions
as Kalina Kalfus (voice)
(2009) Red Riding
as ---
(2002) Timeshift
as Self - Narrator
(2013) The Village
as Grace Middleton
(2011) Silk
as Martha Costello
(2015) Artsnight
as Self - Presenter
(2012) Room at the Top
as Alice Aisgill
(1996) Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
as Photocopy Assistant
(2001) Messiah
as DS Vickie Clarke
(2020) Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
as Miss Fozzard
(2000) Clocking Off
as Marie Leach
(2022) Rules of the Game
as Sam Thompson
(1999) Sunburn
as Sue
(2017) Three Girls
as Sara Rowbotham
(2022) Art That Made Us
as Self - Actrice (Rules of the Game, Anne)
(2006) See No Evil: The Moors Murders
as Myra Hindley
(2008) The Devil's Whore
as Elizabeth Lilburne
(2004) Shameless
as Veronica Fisher
(2011) Black Mirror
as Bella
(2007) The Graham Norton Show
as Self
(2001) Linda Green
as Receptionist
(2024) Secret Life of the Safari Park
as Narrator
(2018) The Bisexual
as Sadie
(2024) Say Nothing
as Older Dolours Price
(2012) The Hollow Crown
as Doll Tearsheet
(2022) Anne
as Anne Williams
(2014) Inside No. 9
as Nadia