Birthday:
Jul 14, 1974
Place of Birth: Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, UK
Place of Birth: Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, UK
Maxine Peake
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.
Filmography
| Movie | Cast | Year |
|---|---|---|
| The 50 Greatest Television Dramas | Self | 2007 |
| Girls' Night | Sharon | 1998 |
| Where We Used to Meet | 2021 | |
| Dance First | Barbara | 2023 |
| Words of War | Anna Politkovskaya | 1970 |
| Clubbed | Angela | 2008 |
| The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister | Anne Lister | 2010 |
| The Real Anne: Unfinished Business | Self- Presenter | 2022 |
| I Am Bob | Marilyn Monroe Lookalike/Compere's Assistant | 2007 |
| Christmas Lights | Pauline | 2004 |
| Tish | Tish Murtha (voice) | 2023 |
| Wendell & Wild | Irmgard Klaxon (voice) | 2022 |
| Edge | Elly | 2010 |
| Woken | Helen | 2024 |
| Svengali | Angie | 2013 |
| Run & Jump | Vanetia | 2014 |
| Hancock & Joan | Joan Le Mesurier | 2008 |
| The Theory of Everything | Elaine Mason | 2014 |
| Confessions of a Diary Secretary | Tracey Temple | 2007 |
| Keeping Rosy | Charlotte | 2014 |
| Something Out of Nothing | 2022 | |
| Surfaces | Alix | 2020 |
| I Wish For You | Grown Up Mia | 2016 |
| Judy | Judy | 2019 |
| It's Me | Miriam | 2020 |
| Lapushka! | Scoot Piccolo | 2022 |
| Strange Weather | Jane | 2015 |
| Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980 | Helen Marshall | 2009 |
| The Falling | Eileen Lamont | 2015 |
| Inner Polar Bear | Narrator (voice) | 2022 |
| Hamlet | Hamlet | 2015 |
| The Great Mountain Sheep Gather | Self - Narrator | 2020 |
| The Madness of the Dance | 2006 | |
| Generation '66 | Narrator | 2016 |
| Faith | Linda | 2005 |
| Red Top | Rebekah Brooks | 2016 |
| Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings | Self | 2000 |
| Choked Up | Fiona Lacey | 2023 |
| Private Peaceful | Hazel Peaceful | 2012 |
| Bike Squad | WPC Kate McFay | 2008 |
| All or Nothing | Party girl | 2002 |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | Titania | 2016 |
| Hamilton Mattress | Lulu (voice) | 2002 |
| Funny Cow | Funny Cow | 2018 |
| Art Matters | Self | 2024 |
| Keeping Up with the Joneses | Celia | 2013 |
| Best Laid Plans | Isabel | 2012 |
| Frozen | Ticket Attendant | 2005 |
| I Swear | 1970 | |
| The Heart Fails Without Warning | Mother | 2013 |
| Fanny Lye Deliver'd | Fanny Lye | 2019 |
| Would Like To Meet | George's Mum | 2007 |
| Imaginary Friend | Pauline | 2010 |
| Peterloo | Nellie | 2018 |
| Men Who Sleep in Cars | Sarah | 2017 |
| Wonders of the Moon | Narrator (voice) | 2018 |
| Cake | 2017 | |
| DeafBlind | Maggie | 2011 |
| Gwen | Elen | 2018 |
| The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca | Herself | 2018 |
| The Priest | 2017 | |
| Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle | Narrator | 2017 |
| The Fear of Trilogy | 2006 | |
| The Shuttleworths | Helen Bach | 2015 |
| Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods | Self (archive footage) | 2017 |
| Twisting My Melon | Linda Ryder | 1970 |
| Be Still My Beating Heart | 2019 | |
| Unseen | Emma | 2017 |
| Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels | Friedrich Engels (voice) | 2018 | Series | Cast | Year |
| Dinnerladies | Twinkle | 1998 |
| Early Doors | Janice | 2003 |
| ChuckleVision | 1987 | |
| Jonathan Creek | Marion Cretiss | 1997 |
| Shameless | 2004 | |
| Comedy Connections | 2003 | |
| Dalziel & Pascoe | 1996 | |
| We Have Been Watching | Self | 2017 |
| Criminal Justice | Juliet Miller | 2008 |
| Little Dorrit | Miss Wade | 2008 |
| Fairy Tales | 2008 | |
| The Alan Titchmarsh Show | Self | 2007 |
| The Street | 2006 | |
| Star Wars: Visions | Kalina Kalfus (voice) | 2021 |
| Red Riding | 2009 | |
| Timeshift | Self - Narrator | 2002 |
| The Village | Grace Middleton | 2013 |
| Silk | Martha Costello | 2011 |
| Artsnight | Self - Presenter | 2015 |
| Room at the Top | Alice Aisgill | 2012 |
| Hetty Wainthropp Investigates | Photocopy Assistant | 1996 |
| Messiah | DS Vickie Clarke | 2001 |
| Alan Bennett's Talking Heads | Miss Fozzard | 2020 |
| Clocking Off | Marie Leach | 2000 |
| Rules of the Game | Sam Thompson | 2022 |
| Sunburn | Sue | 1999 |
| Three Girls | Sara Rowbotham | 2017 |
| Art That Made Us | Self - Actrice (Rules of the Game, Anne) | 2022 |
| See No Evil: The Moors Murders | Myra Hindley | 2006 |
| The Devil's Whore | Elizabeth Lilburne | 2008 |
| Shameless | Veronica Fisher | 2004 |
| Black Mirror | Bella | 2011 |
| The Graham Norton Show | Self | 2007 |
| Linda Green | Receptionist | 2001 |
| Secret Life of the Safari Park | Narrator | 2024 |
| The Bisexual | Sadie | 2018 |
| Say Nothing | Older Dolours Price | 2024 |
| The Hollow Crown | Doll Tearsheet | 2012 |
| Anne | Anne Williams | 2022 |
| Inside No. 9 | Nadia | 2014 |
