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.
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Filmography
all 111
Movies 68
TV Shows 43
self 15
Narrator 5
Voice 4
Director 1
Helen
Woken (2024)
Movie
Narrator
Secret Life of the Safari Park (2024)
TV
Tish Murtha
Tish (2023)
Movie
Barbara
Dance First (2023)
Movie
Irmgard Klaxon (voice)
Wendell & Wild (2022)
Movie
4
Narrator (voice)
Inner Polar Bear (2022)
Movie
Scoot Piccolo
Lapushka! (2022)
Movie
Something Out of Nothing (2022)
Movie
Director
Incompatible (2022)
Movie
Self - Actrice (Rules of the Game, Anne)
Art That Made Us (2022)
TV
Self - Narrator
Kelvin's Big Farming Adventure (2022)
TV
Sam Thompson
Rules of the Game (2022)
TV
Self - Narrator
The Real Anne: Unfinished Business (2022)
Movie
Anne Williams
Anne (2022)
TV
Actress
Where We Used to Meet (2021)
Movie
Kalina Kalfus (voice)
Star Wars: Visions (2021)
TV
8
Fanny Lye
Fanny Lye Deliver'd (2021)
Movie
Thanks
Doughnut (2021)
Movie
Miss Fozzard
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads (2020)
TV
Alix
Surfaces (2020)
Movie
Self - Narrator
The Great Mountain Sheep Gather (2020)
Movie
Miriam
It's Me (2020)
Movie
Actress
Be Still My Beating Heart (2019)
Movie
Judy
Judy (2019)
Movie
Nellie
Peterloo (2018)
Movie
Sadie
The Bisexual (2018)
TV
Herself / Director / Producer
The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca (2018)
Movie
Elen
Gwen (2018)
Movie
6
Engels
Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels (2018)
Movie
Funny Cow
Funny Cow (2018)
Movie
6
Self / Twinkle
Dinnerladies Diaries (2018)
TV
Narrator
999: Rescue Squad (2018)
TV
Self - Narrator
Wonders of the Moon (2018)
Movie
Actress
The Priest (2017)
Movie
Sarah
Men Who Sleep in Cars (2017)
Movie
Actress
Cake (2017)
Movie
Emma
Unseen (2017)
Movie
Narrator
Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle (2017)
Movie
Sara Rowbotham
Three Girls (2017)
TV
Self (archive footage)
Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods (2017)
Movie
Self / Twinkle / Self - Presenter
Our Friend Victoria (2017)
TV
Self
We Have Been Watching (2017)
TV
Titania
A Midsummer Night's Dream (2016)
Movie
Rebekah Brooks
Red Top (2016)
Movie
Grown Up Mia
I Wish For You (2016)
Movie
Eileen Lamont
The Falling (2015)
Movie
Hamlet
Hamlet (2015)
Movie
Self - Presenter
Artsnight (2015)
TV
Narrator
Billionaire's Paradise: Inside Necker Island (2015)
Movie
Jane
Strange Weather (2015)
Movie
Helen Bach
The Shuttleworths (2015)
Movie
Elaine Mason
The Theory of Everything (2014)
Movie
7.3
Charlotte
Keeping Rosy (2014)
Movie
Nadia
Inside No. 9 (2014)
TV
3.5
Vanetia
Run & Jump (2014)
Movie
Celia
Keeping Up with the Joneses (2013)
Movie
Angie
Svengali (2013)
Movie
Grace Middleton
The Village (2013)
TV
Mother
The Heart Fails Without Warning (2013)
Movie
Hazel Peaceful
Private Peaceful (2012)
Movie
Alice Aisgill
Room at the Top (2012)
TV
Doll Tearsheet
The Hollow Crown (2012)
TV
7.1
Isabel
Best Laid Plans (2012)
Movie
Maggie
DeafBlind (2011)
Movie
Bella
Black Mirror (2011)
TV
6.48
Martha Costello QC
Silk (2011)
TV
6.55
Elly
Edge (2010)
Movie
Pauline
Imaginary Friend (2010)
Movie
Anne Lister
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister (2010)
Movie
Red Riding (2009)
TV
Helen Marshall
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980 (2009)
Movie
6
Elizabeth Lilburne
The Devil's Whore (2008)
TV
3.5
Miss Wade
Little Dorrit (2008)
TV
6
Angela
Clubbed (2008)
Movie
Juliet Miller
Criminal Justice (2008)
TV
6.22
Joan Le Mesurier
Hancock & Joan (2008)
Movie
Cindy Mellor
Fairy Tales (2008)
TV
Self
The Alan Titchmarsh Show (2007)
TV
George's Mum
Would Like To Meet (2007)
Movie
Marilyn Monroe Lookalike/Compere's Assistant
I Am Bob (2007)
Movie
Tracey Temple
Confessions of a Diary Secretary (2007)
Movie
Self
The Graham Norton Show (2007)
TV
7.5
Self
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas (2007)
Movie
Myra Hindley
See No Evil: The Moors Murders (2006)
TV
6
The Street (2006)
TV
5
The professor
The Madness of the Dance (2006)
Movie
The Fear of Trilogy (2006)
Movie
Ticket Attendant
Frozen (2005)
Movie
Linda
Faith (2005)
Movie
Pauline
Christmas Lights (2004)
Movie
Veronica Fisher
Shameless (2004)
TV
6.28
Comedy Connections (2003)
TV
Janice
Early Doors (2003)
TV
Self - Narrator
Timeshift (2002)
TV
Party girl
All or Nothing (2002)
Movie
Lulu (voice)
Hamilton Mattress (2002)
Movie
Receptionist
Linda Green (2001)
TV
DS Vickie Clarke
Messiah (2001)
TV
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings (2000)
Movie
Marie Leach
Clocking Off (2000)
TV
Sue
Sunburn (1999)
TV
Twinkle
Dinnerladies (1998)
TV
6
Sharon
Girls' Night (1998)
Movie
Marion Cretiss
Jonathan Creek (1997)
TV
1
Dalziel & Pascoe (1996)
TV
6
Photocopy Assistant
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (1996)
TV
6
ChuckleVision (1987)
TV
Narrator
Jon Venables: What Went Wrong?
Movie
Anna
Anna
Movie
Say Nothing
TV
Linda Ryder
Twisting My Melon
Movie
Ratings
Average 5.62
Based on 1.35 Million movie and tv ratings over time
1987
2007
2014
2008
2024
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Information
Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1974-07-14 (49 years old)
Birth PlaceWesthoughton, United Kingdom
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
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