Maxine Peake
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1974-07-14 (50 years old)
Place of Birth
Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, UK
Maxine Peake
Biography
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.
Acting
Twisting My Melon
as Linda Ryder
(2025)
Words of War
as Anna Politkovskaya
(2024)
Woken
as Helen
(2024)
Art Matters
as Self
(2023)
Dance First
as Barbara
(2023)
Tish
as Tish Murtha (voice)
(2023)
Choked Up
as Fiona Lacey
(2022)
Wendell & Wild
as Irmgard Klaxon (voice)
(2022)
Inner Polar Bear
as Narrator (voice)
(2022)
The Real Anne: Unfinished Business
as Self- Presenter
(2022)
Lapushka!
as Scoot Piccolo
(2022)
(2021)
(2020)
The Great Mountain Sheep Gather
as Self - Narrator
(2020)
It's Me
as Miriam
(2020)
Surfaces
as Alix
(2019)
Fanny Lye Deliver'd
as Fanny Lye
(2019)
Judy
as Judy
(2019)
(2018)
Peterloo
as Nellie
(2018)
Gwen
as Elen
(2018)
Funny Cow
as Funny Cow
(2018)
The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca
as Herself
(2018)
Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels
as Friedrich Engels (voice)
(2018)
Wonders of the Moon
as Narrator (voice)
(2017)
Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods
as Self (archive footage)
(2017)
Unseen
as Emma
(2017)
Men Who Sleep in Cars
as Sarah
(2017)
(2017)
(2017)
(2016)
A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Titania
(2016)
Red Top
as Rebekah Brooks
(2016)
Generation '66
as Narrator
(2016)
I Wish For You
as Grown Up Mia
(2015)
The Falling
as Eileen Lamont
(2015)
Hamlet
as Hamlet
(2015)
The Shuttleworths
as Helen Bach
(2015)
Strange Weather
as Jane
(2014)
The Theory of Everything
as Elaine Mason
(2014)
Run & Jump
as Vanetia
(2014)
Keeping Rosy
as Charlotte
(2013)
Svengali
as Angie
(2013)
Keeping Up with the Joneses
as Celia
(2013)
The Heart Fails Without Warning
as Mother
(2012)
Private Peaceful
as Hazel Peaceful
(2012)
Best Laid Plans
as Isabel
(2011)
DeafBlind
as Maggie
(2010)
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
as Anne Lister
(2010)
Edge
as Elly
(2010)
Imaginary Friend
as Pauline
(2009)
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
as Helen Marshall
(2008)
Clubbed
as Angela
(2008)
Hancock & Joan
as Joan Le Mesurier
(2008)
Bike Squad
as WPC Kate McFay
(2007)
(2007)
Confessions of a Diary Secretary
as Tracey Temple
(2007)
I Am Bob
as Marilyn Monroe Lookalike/Compere's Assistant
(2007)
Would Like To Meet
as George's Mum
(2006)
(2006)
(2005)
Frozen
as Ticket Attendant
(2005)
Faith
as Linda
(2004)
Christmas Lights
as Pauline
(2002)
All or Nothing
as Party girl
(2002)
Hamilton Mattress
as Lulu (voice)
(2000)
(1998)
Girls' Night
as Sharon
Crew
(2022)
Incompatible
Director
(2021)
Doughnut
Thanks
(2018)
The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca
Producer, Director
(2018)
Funny Cow
Executive Producer
(2017)
The Priest
Writer