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