Maxine Peake
Acting
Born July 14, 1974 · Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, UK
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.
Acting (72)
Becoming Victoria Wood
2026
The Occupant of the Room
2025
Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough
2025
I Swear
2025
Quiet on Set: The Class Division in the Film Industry?
2025
Words of War
2025
Art Matters
2024
Woken
2024
Tish
2023
Dance First
2023
Choked Up
2023
Wendell & Wild
2022
Inner Polar Bear
2022
Lapushka!
2022
Something Out of Nothing
2022
The Real Anne: Unfinished Business
2022
Where We Used to Meet
2021
Surfaces
2020
The Great Mountain Sheep Gather
2020
It's Me
2020
Fanny Lye Deliver'd
2019
Be Still My Beating Heart
2019
Judy
2019
Peterloo
2018
The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca
2018
Gwen
2018
Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels
2018
Funny Cow
2018
Wonders of the Moon
2018
The Priest
2017
Men Who Sleep in Cars
2017
Cake
2017
Unseen
2017
Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle
2017
Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods
2017
Generation '66
2016
A Midsummer Night's Dream
2016
Red Top
2016
I Wish For You
2016
The Falling
2015
Hamlet
2015
Strange Weather
2015
The Shuttleworths
2015
The Theory of Everything
2014
Keeping Rosy
2014
Run & Jump
2014
Keeping Up with the Joneses
2013
Svengali
2013
The Heart Fails Without Warning
2013
Private Peaceful
2012
Best Laid Plans
2012
DeafBlind
2011
Edge
2010
Imaginary Friend
2010
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
2010
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
2009
Clubbed
2008
Hancock & Joan
2008
Bike Squad
2008
Would Like To Meet
2007
I Am Bob
2007
Confessions of a Diary Secretary
2007
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007
The Madness of the Dance
2006
The Fear of Trilogy
2006
Frozen
2005
Faith
2005
Christmas Lights
2004
All or Nothing
2002
Hamilton Mattress
2002
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
2000
Girls' Night
1998