Maxine Peake
ActingMaxine 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
I Swear
Dottie
The Theory of Everything
Elaine Mason
Wendell & Wild
Irmgard Klaxon (voice)
Peterloo
Nellie
All or Nothing
Party girl
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
Helen Marshall
Words of War
Anna Politkovskaya
Dance First
Barbara
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
Anne Lister
The Falling
Eileen Lamont
Filmography — Acting
I Swear
Dottie
The Theory of Everything
Elaine Mason
Wendell & Wild
Irmgard Klaxon (voice)
Peterloo
Nellie
All or Nothing
Party girl
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
Helen Marshall
Words of War
Anna Politkovskaya
Dance First
Barbara
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
Anne Lister
The Falling
Eileen Lamont
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
Self
Fanny Lye Deliver'd
Fanny Lye
Faith
Linda
Clubbed
Angela
Private Peaceful
Hazel Peaceful
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
Self
Funny Cow
Funny Cow
Svengali
Angie
Best Laid Plans
Isabel
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Titania
Keeping Up with the Joneses
Celia
Woken
Helen
Gwen
Elen
Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough
Narrator
Frozen
Ticket Attendant
Keeping Rosy
Charlotte
Hamlet
Hamlet
Christmas Lights
Pauline
Hancock & Joan
Joan Le Mesurier
I Am Bob
Marilyn Monroe Lookalike/Compere's Assistant
Girls' Night
Sharon
Run & Jump
Vanetia
Bike Squad
WPC Kate McFay
Red Top
Rebekah Brooks
It's Me
Miriam
Edge
Elly
Twisting My Melon
Linda Ryder
Becoming Victoria Wood
Self
Confessions of a Diary Secretary
Tracey Temple
I Wish For You
Grown Up Mia
Hamilton Mattress
Lulu (voice)
Tish
Tish Murtha (voice)
Men Who Sleep in Cars
Sarah
Choked Up
Fiona Lacey
Judy
Judy
Strange Weather
Jane
Wonders of the Moon
Narrator (voice)
Be Still My Beating Heart
Quiet on Set: The Class Division in the Film Industry?
Self
Surfaces
Alix
The Occupant of the Room
The Englishwoman (voice)
Art Matters
Self
The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca
Self
Would Like To Meet
George's Mum
Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods
Self (archive footage)
Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle
Narrator
Generation '66
Narrator
Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Engels (voice)
Unseen
Emma
The Great Mountain Sheep Gather
Self - Narrator
The Priest
The Real Anne: Unfinished Business
Self- Presenter
The Fear of Trilogy
DeafBlind
Maggie
Cake
The Madness of the Dance
The Heart Fails Without Warning
Mother
Lapushka!
Scoot Piccolo
Something Out of Nothing
Inner Polar Bear
Narrator (voice)
Imaginary Friend
Pauline
The Shuttleworths
Helen Bach
