Maxine Peake
Maxine Peake (born 14 July 1974) is an English stage, radio, film and television actress, playwright 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.
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- Born:
- Jul 14, 1974 In Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, UK
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 84
- First Appeared:
- In the series ChuckleVision 1987-09-26
- Latest Project:
- Movie Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough 2025-09-26
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough | Narrator | 2025-09-26 |
| Movie | Woken | Helen | 2024-07-04 |
| Series | Say Nothing | Older Dolours Price | 2024-11-14 |
| Movie | Choked Up | Fiona Lacey | 2023-03-28 |
| Movie | Dance First | Barbara | 2023-11-03 |
| Series | Anne | Anne Williams | 2022-01-02 |
| Movie | The Real Anne: Unfinished Business | Self- Presenter | 2022-01-06 |
| Series | Rules of the Game | Sam Thompson | 2022-01-11 |
| Movie | Wendell & Wild | Irmgard Klaxon (voice) | 2022-10-21 |
| Movie | Lapushka! | Scoot Piccolo | 2022-08-04 |
| Movie | It's Me | Miriam | 2020-01-02 |
| Movie | Judy | Judy | 2019-01-01 |
| Movie | Fanny Lye Deliver'd | Fanny Lye | 2019-10-10 |
| Movie | Be Still My Beating Heart | 2019-10-06 | |
| Movie | Funny Cow | Funny Cow | 2018-04-20 |
| Movie | Gwen | Elen | 2018-07-12 |
| Movie | Wonders of the Moon | Narrator (voice) | 2018-01-31 |
| Movie | The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca | Herself | 2018-09-02 |
| Movie | Peterloo | Nellie | 2018-11-01 |
| Series | The Bisexual | Sadie | 2018-10-10 |
| Movie | Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods | Self (archive footage) | 2017-04-21 |
| Series | We Have Been Watching | Self | 2017-01-04 |
| Series | Three Girls | Sara Rowbotham | 2017-05-16 |
| Movie | Cake | 2017-09-29 | |
| Movie | Unseen | Emma | 2017-09-22 |
| Movie | Men Who Sleep in Cars | Sarah | 2017-10-01 |
| Movie | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Titania | 2016-05-30 |
| Movie | Red Top | Rebekah Brooks | 2016-01-20 |
| Movie | Generation '66 | Narrator | 2016-07-31 |
| Series | Artsnight | Herself - Presenter | 2015-03-06 |
| Movie | Hamlet | Hamlet | 2015-03-23 |
| Movie | The Falling | Eileen Lamont | 2015-04-24 |
| Movie | Run & Jump | Vanetia | 2014-01-24 |
| Movie | Keeping Rosy | Charlotte | 2014-06-08 |
| Movie | The Theory of Everything | Elaine Mason | 2014-11-07 |
| Movie | The Heart Fails Without Warning | Mother | 2013-01-01 |
| Series | The Village | Grace Middleton | 2013-03-31 |
| Movie | Svengali | Angie | 2013-06-19 |
| Movie | Keeping Up with the Joneses | Celia | 2013-10-18 |
| Movie | Best Laid Plans | Isabel | 2012-02-03 |
| Series | The Hollow Crown | Doll Tearsheet | 2012-06-30 |
| Series | Room at the Top | Alice Aisgill | 2012-09-26 |
| Movie | Private Peaceful | Hazel Peaceful | 2012-10-12 |
| Series | Silk | Martha Costello | 2011-02-22 |
| Movie | DeafBlind | Maggie | 2011-12-31 |
| Series | Black Mirror | Bella | 2011-12-04 |
| Movie | The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister | Anne Lister | 2010-03-01 |
| Movie | Edge | Elly | 2010-10-23 |
| Movie | Imaginary Friend | Pauline | 2010-05-08 |
| Movie | Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980 | Helen Marshall | 2009-11-11 |
| Movie | Hancock & Joan | Joan Le Mesurier | 2008-03-26 |
| Series | Criminal Justice | Juliet Miller | 2008-06-30 |
| Series | Fairy Tales | Unknown | 2008-01-10 |
| Series | Little Dorrit | Miss Wade | 2008-10-26 |
| Movie | Clubbed | Angela | 2008-10-02 |
| Series | The Devil's Whore | Elizabeth Lilburne | 2008-11-19 |
| Series | The Graham Norton Show | Herself | 2007-02-22 |
| Movie | The 50 Greatest Television Dramas | Self | 2007-02-03 |
| Movie | Confessions of a Diary Secretary | Tracey Temple | 2007-02-28 |
| Movie | I Am Bob | Marilyn Monroe Lookalike/Compere's Assistant | 2007-04-26 |
| Movie | Would Like To Meet | George's Mum | 2007-07-31 |
| Series | The Alan Titchmarsh Show | Unknown | 2007-09-03 |
| Movie | The Madness of the Dance | 2006-01-01 | |
| Series | See No Evil: The Moors Murders | Myra Hindley | 2006-05-14 |
| Series | The Street | Unknown | 2006-04-13 |
| Movie | Faith | Linda | 2005-02-28 |
| Movie | Frozen | Ticket Attendant | 2005-03-12 |
| Series | Shameless | Veronica Fisher | 2004-01-13 |
| Movie | Christmas Lights | Pauline | 2004-12-20 |
| Series | Early Doors | Janice | 2003-05-12 |
| Series | Comedy Connections | Unknown | 2003-06-09 |
| Movie | Hamilton Mattress | Lulu (voice) | 2002-01-01 |
| Movie | All or Nothing | Party girl | 2002-10-18 |
| Series | Messiah | DS Vickie Clarke | 2001-05-26 |
| Series | Linda Green | Receptionist | 2001-10-30 |
| Movie | Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings | Self | 2000-12-25 |
| Series | Clocking Off | Marie Leach | 2000-01-23 |
| Series | Sunburn | Unknown | 1999-01-16 |
| Movie | Girls' Night | Sharon | 1998-06-26 |
| Series | dinnerladies | Twinkle | 1998-11-12 |
| Series | Jonathan Creek | Unknown | 1997-05-09 |
| Series | Hetty Wainthropp Investigates | Unknown | 1996-01-03 |
| Series | Dalziel & Pascoe | Unknown | 1996-03-16 |
| Series | ChuckleVision | Unknown | 1987-09-26 |