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