Maxine Peake
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.
Acted in
Say Nothing
2024
as Older Dolours Price
Art Matters
2024
as Self
Woken
2024
as Helen
Secret Life of the Safari Park
2024
as Narrator
Tish
2023
as Tish Murtha (voice)
Dance First
2023
as Barbara
Choked Up
2023
as Fiona Lacey
Wendell & Wild
2022
as Irmgard Klaxon (voice)
Inner Polar Bear
2022
as Narrator (voice)
Lapushka!
2022
as Scoot Piccolo
Something Out of Nothing
2022
Art That Made Us
2022
as Self - Actrice (Rules of the Game, Anne)
Rules of the Game
2022
as Sam Thompson
The Real Anne: Unfinished Business
2022
as Self- Presenter
Anne
2022
as Anne Williams
Where We Used to Meet
2021
Star Wars: Visions
2021
as Kalina Kalfus (voice)
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
2020
as Miss Fozzard
Surfaces
2020
as Alix
The Great Mountain Sheep Gather
2020
as Self - Narrator
It's Me
2020
as Miriam
Fanny Lye Deliver'd
2019
as Fanny Lye
Be Still My Beating Heart
2019
Judy
2019
as Judy
Peterloo
2018
as Nellie
The Bisexual
2018
as Sadie
The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca
2018
as Herself
Gwen
2018
as Elen
Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels
2018
as Friedrich Engels (voice)
Funny Cow
2018
as Funny Cow
Wonders of the Moon
2018
as Narrator (voice)
The Priest
2017
Men Who Sleep in Cars
2017
as Sarah
Cake
2017
Unseen
2017
as Emma
Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle
2017
as Narrator
Three Girls
2017
as Sara Rowbotham
Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods
2017
as Self (archive footage)
We Have Been Watching
2017
as Self
Generation '66
2016
as Narrator
A Midsummer Night's Dream
2016
as Titania
Red Top
2016
as Rebekah Brooks
I Wish For You
2016
as Grown Up Mia
The Falling
2015
as Eileen Lamont
Hamlet
2015
as Hamlet
Artsnight
2015
as Self - Presenter
Strange Weather
2015
as Jane
The Shuttleworths
2015
as Helen Bach
The Theory of Everything
2014
as Elaine Mason
Keeping Rosy
2014
as Charlotte
Inside No. 9
2014
as Nadia
Run & Jump
2014
as Vanetia
Keeping Up with the Joneses
2013
as Celia
Svengali
2013
as Angie
The Village
2013
as Grace Middleton
The Heart Fails Without Warning
2013
as Mother
Private Peaceful
2012
as Hazel Peaceful
Room at the Top
2012
as Alice Aisgill
The Hollow Crown
2012
as Doll Tearsheet
Best Laid Plans
2012
as Isabel
DeafBlind
2011
as Maggie
Black Mirror
2011
as Bella
Silk
2011
as Martha Costello
Edge
2010
as Elly
Imaginary Friend
2010
as Pauline
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
2010
as Anne Lister
Red Riding
2009
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
2009
as Helen Marshall
The Devil's Whore
2008
as Elizabeth Lilburne
Little Dorrit
2008
as Miss Wade
Clubbed
2008
as Angela
Criminal Justice
2008
as Juliet Miller
Hancock & Joan
2008
as Joan Le Mesurier
Fairy Tales
2008
Bike Squad
2008
as WPC Kate McFay
Would Like To Meet
2007
as George's Mum
I Am Bob
2007
as Marilyn Monroe Lookalike/Compere's Assistant
Confessions of a Diary Secretary
2007
as Tracey Temple
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007
as Self
See No Evil: The Moors Murders
2006
as Myra Hindley
The Street
2006
The Madness of the Dance
2006
The Fear of Trilogy
2006
Frozen
2005
as Ticket Attendant
Faith
2005
as Linda
Christmas Lights
2004
as Pauline
Shameless
2004
Shameless
2004
as Veronica Fisher
Comedy Connections
2003
Early Doors
2003
as Janice
Timeshift
2002
as Self - Narrator
All or Nothing
2002
as Party girl
Hamilton Mattress
2002
as Lulu (voice)
Linda Green
2001
as Receptionist
Messiah
2001
as DS Vickie Clarke
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
2000
as Self
Clocking Off
2000
as Marie Leach
Sunburn
1999
as Sue
Dinnerladies
1998
as Twinkle
Girls' Night
1998
as Sharon
Jonathan Creek
1997
as Marion Cretiss
Dalziel & Pascoe
1996
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
1996
as Photocopy Assistant
ChuckleVision
1987
Words of War
as Anna Politkovskaya
I Swear
Twisting My Melon
as Linda Ryder