Maxine Peake
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1974-07-14 (51 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.
Known For
Acting
Twisting My Melon
as Linda Ryder
(2025)
I Swear
as Dottie Achenbach
(2025)
Words of War
as Anna Politkovskaya
(2025)
(2025)
Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough
as Narrator
(2025)
(2024)
Woken
as Helen
(2024)
Art Matters
as Self
(2023)
Dance First
as Barbara
(2023)
Choked Up
as Fiona Lacey
(2023)
Tish
as Tish Murtha (voice)
(2022)
Lapushka!
as Scoot Piccolo
(2022)
Wendell & Wild
as Irmgard Klaxon (voice)
(2022)
(2022)
Inner Polar Bear
as Narrator (voice)
(2022)
The Real Anne: Unfinished Business
as Self- Presenter
(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)
The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca
as Herself
(2018)
Gwen
as Elen
(2018)
Funny Cow
as Funny Cow
(2018)
Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels
as Friedrich Engels (voice)
(2018)
Wonders of the Moon
as Narrator (voice)
(2017)
(2017)
(2017)
Unseen
as Emma
(2017)
Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods
as Self (archive footage)
(2017)
Men Who Sleep in Cars
as Sarah
(2017)
(2016)
A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Titania
(2016)
Generation '66
as Narrator
(2016)
Red Top
as Rebekah Brooks
(2016)
I Wish For You
as Grown Up Mia
(2015)
The Falling
as Eileen Lamont
(2015)
Hamlet
as Hamlet
(2015)
Strange Weather
as Jane
(2015)
The Shuttleworths
as Helen Bach
(2014)
The Theory of Everything
as Elaine Mason
(2014)
Run & Jump
as Vanetia
(2014)
Keeping Rosy
as Charlotte
(2013)
Keeping Up with the Joneses
as Celia
(2013)
Svengali
as Angie
(2013)
The Heart Fails Without Warning
as Mother
(2012)
Best Laid Plans
as Isabel
(2012)
Private Peaceful
as Hazel Peaceful
(2011)
DeafBlind
as Maggie
(2010)
Edge
as Elly
(2010)
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
as Anne Lister
(2010)
Imaginary Friend
as Pauline
(2009)
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
as Helen Marshall
(2008)
Hancock & Joan
as Joan Le Mesurier
(2008)
Bike Squad
as WPC Kate McFay
(2008)
Clubbed
as Angela
(2007)
I Am Bob
as Marilyn Monroe Lookalike/Compere's Assistant
(2007)
Confessions of a Diary Secretary
as Tracey Temple
(2007)
(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)
Hamilton Mattress
as Lulu (voice)
(2002)
All or Nothing
as Party girl
(2000)
(1998)
Girls' Night
as Sharon
Crew
(2022)
Incompatible
Director
(2021)
Doughnut
Thanks
(2018)
The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca
Director, Producer
(2018)
Funny Cow
Executive Producer
(2017)
The Priest
Writer