
Maxine Peake
Born July 14, 1974 · Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, UK
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.
Notable Appearances
Movies

I Swear

The Theory of Everything

Wendell & Wild

Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980

All or Nothing

Laundreams

Words of War

Peterloo

Red Top

Private Peaceful

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Run & Jump

The Falling

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas

Fanny Lye Deliver'd

Dance First

Funny Cow

Best Laid Plans

Becoming Victoria Wood

Frozen

Faith

Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough

Clubbed

Girls' Night

Keeping Up with the Joneses

Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings

Wonders of the Moon

Strange Weather

Woken

Tish

Svengali

The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister

DeafBlind

The Shuttleworths

Cake

Choked Up

Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle

Hamlet
TV Shows

Star Wars: Visions

Silk

Inside No. 9

Jonathan Creek

Timeshift

ChuckleVision

The Hollow Crown

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer

Bait

Say Nothing

The Village

Comedy Connections

Mandy

Little Dorrit

Criminal Justice

dinnerladies

The Street

Clocking Off

Messiah

Fairy Tales

Red Riding

The Bisexual

The Devil's Whore

Linda Green

Three Girls

Sunburn

Art That Made Us

Early Doors

Anne

Room at the Top

Alan Bennett's Talking Heads

Rules of the Game

Dinnerladies Diaries

We Have Been Watching

Secret Life of the Safari Park

The Haunted Season

See No Evil: The Moors Murders
More Movies

Where We Used to Meet

Generation '66

Unreleased
Twisting My Melon

Hamilton Mattress

I Wish For You

Surfaces

The Real Anne: Unfinished Business

Keeping Rosy

Gwen

Christmas Lights

Unseen

It's Me

Hancock & Joan

Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods

The Great Mountain Sheep Gather

Bike Squad

Art Matters

The Priest

Edge

Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels

Something Out of Nothing

The Occupant of the Room

Judy

Quiet on Set: The Class Division in the Film Industry?

Lapushka!

The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca

Men Who Sleep in Cars




