Maxine Peake
Birthdate
July 14, 1974 (50 years old)
Place of Birth
Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, UK
Known For
Acting
Details
Birthdate
July 14, 1974 (50 years old)
Place of Birth
Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, UK
Known For
Acting
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.
Maxine Peake's LGBTQ+ Titles
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
Anne Lister
Acting (109)
Twisting My Melon as Linda Ryder
Words of War as Anna Politkovskaya
I Swear
2024
Say Nothing as Older Dolours Price (9 episodes)
2024
Art Matters as Self
2024
Woken as Helen
2024
Secret Life of the Safari Park as Narrator (6 episodes)
2023
Tish as Tish Murtha (voice)
2023
Dance First as Barbara
2023
Choked Up as Fiona Lacey
2022
Wendell & Wild as Irmgard Klaxon (voice)
2022
Inner Polar Bear as Narrator (voice)
2022
Lapushka! as Scoot Piccolo
2022
Something Out of Nothing
2022
Art That Made Us as Self - Actrice (Rules of the Game, Anne) (2 episodes)
2022
Rules of the Game as Sam Thompson (4 episodes)
2022
The Real Anne: Unfinished Business as Self- Presenter
2022
Anne as Anne Williams (4 episodes)
2021
Where We Used to Meet
2021
Star Wars: Visions as Kalina Kalfus (voice) (1 episode)
2020
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads as Miss Fozzard (1 episode)
2020
Surfaces as Alix
2020
The Great Mountain Sheep Gather as Self - Narrator
2020
It's Me as Miriam
2019
Fanny Lye Deliver'd as Fanny Lye
2019
Be Still My Beating Heart
2019
Judy as Judy
2018
Peterloo as Nellie
2018
The Bisexual as Sadie (6 episodes)
2018
The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca as Herself
2018
Gwen as Elen
2018
Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels as Friedrich Engels (voice)
2018
Funny Cow as Funny Cow
2018
Wonders of the Moon as Narrator (voice)
2017
The Priest
2017
Men Who Sleep in Cars as Sarah
2017
Cake
2017
Unseen as Emma
2017
Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle as Narrator
2017
Three Girls as Sara Rowbotham (3 episodes)
2017
Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods as Self (archive footage)
2017
We Have Been Watching as Self (5 episodes)
2016
Generation '66 as Narrator
2016
A Midsummer Night's Dream as Titania
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
Artsnight as Self - Presenter (1 episode)
2015
Strange Weather as Jane
2015
The Shuttleworths as Helen Bach
2014
The Theory of Everything as Elaine Mason
2014
Keeping Rosy as Charlotte
2014
Inside No. 9 as Nadia (1 episode)
2014
Run & Jump as Vanetia
2013
Keeping Up with the Joneses as Celia
2013
Svengali as Angie
2013
The Village as Grace Middleton (12 episodes)
2013
The Heart Fails Without Warning as Mother
2012
Private Peaceful as Hazel Peaceful
2012
Room at the Top as Alice Aisgill (2 episodes)
2012
The Hollow Crown as Doll Tearsheet (2 episodes)
2012
Best Laid Plans as Isabel
2011
DeafBlind as Maggie
2011
Black Mirror as Bella (1 episode)
2011
Silk as Martha Costello (18 episodes)
2010
Edge as Elly
2010
Imaginary Friend as Pauline
2010
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister as Anne Lister
2009
Red Riding (1 episode)
2009
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980 as Helen Marshall
2008
The Devil's Whore as Elizabeth Lilburne (4 episodes)
2008
Little Dorrit as Miss Wade (14 episodes)
2008
Clubbed as Angela
2008
Criminal Justice as Juliet Miller (5 episodes)
2008
Hancock & Joan as Joan Le Mesurier
2008
Fairy Tales (1 episode)
2008
Bike Squad as WPC Kate McFay
2007
The Alan Titchmarsh Show as Self (1 episode)
2007
Would Like To Meet as George's Mum
2007
I Am Bob as Marilyn Monroe Lookalike/Compere's Assistant
2007
Confessions of a Diary Secretary as Tracey Temple
2007
The Graham Norton Show as Self (2 episodes)
2007
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas as Self
2006
See No Evil: The Moors Murders as Myra Hindley (2 episodes)
2006
The Street (1 episode)
2006
The Madness of the Dance
2006
The Fear of Trilogy
2005
Frozen as Ticket Attendant
2005
Faith as Linda
2004
Christmas Lights as Pauline
2004
Shameless (6 episodes)
2004
Shameless as Veronica Fisher (17 episodes)
2003
Comedy Connections (1 episode)
2003
Early Doors as Janice (6 episodes)
2002
Timeshift as Self - Narrator (1 episode)
2002
All or Nothing as Party girl
2002
Hamilton Mattress as Lulu (voice)
2001
Linda Green as Receptionist (1 episode)
2001
Messiah as DS Vickie Clarke (3 episodes)
2000
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings as Self
2000
Clocking Off as Marie Leach (1 episode)
1999
Sunburn as Sue (1 episode)
1998
Dinnerladies as Twinkle (16 episodes)
1998
Girls' Night as Sharon
1997
Jonathan Creek as Marion Cretiss (1 episode)
1996
Dalziel & Pascoe (1 episode)
1996
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates as Photocopy Assistant (1 episode)
1987
ChuckleVision (1 episode)
Directing (2)
2022
Incompatible
• Director
2018
The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca
• Director
Production (2)
2018
The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca
• Producer
2018
Funny Cow
• Executive Producer
Writing (1)
2017
The Priest
• Writer
Crew (1)
2021
Doughnut
• Thanks