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