Maxine Peake
68 movies · 40 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jul 14, 1974 (age 52)
- Place of birth
- Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, UK
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.
Known for
Maxine Peake: movies and TV shows
Acting (106)
- Upcoming
- Upcoming
- Upcoming
- 2026
- 2026
- 2026
- 2025
- 2025 The Occupant of the Room
as The Englishwoman (voice)
- 2025 Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough
as Narrator
- 2025 I Swear
as Dottie
- 2025 Words of War
as Anna Politkovskaya
- 2024
- 2024
- 2024 Woken
as Helen
- 2024
- 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
- 2022
- 2022
- 2021
- 2021
- 2020
- 2020
- 2020 Surfaces
as Alix
- 2020 It's Me
as Miriam
- 2019 Fanny Lye Deliver'd
as Fanny Lye
- 2019
- 2019 Judy
as Judy
- 2018 Peterloo
as Nellie
- 2018
- 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
- 2017 Men Who Sleep in Cars
as Sarah
- 2017
- 2017 Unseen
as Emma
- 2017 Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle
as Narrator
- 2017
- 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 Strange Weather
as Jane
- 2015 The Shuttleworths
as Helen Bach
- 2014 The Theory of Everything
as Elaine Mason
- 2014 Keeping Rosy
as Charlotte
- 2014
- 2014 Run & Jump
as Vanetia
- 2013 Keeping Up with the Joneses
as Celia
- 2013 Svengali
as Angie
- 2013
- 2013 The Heart Fails Without Warning
as Mother
- 2012 Private Peaceful
as Hazel Peaceful
- 2012
- 2012
- 2012 Best Laid Plans
as Isabel
- 2011 DeafBlind
as Maggie
- 2011
- 2011
- 2010 Edge
as Elly
- 2010 Imaginary Friend
as Pauline
- 2010 The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
as Anne Lister
- 2009 Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
as Helen Marshall
- 2009
- 2008
- 2008
- 2008 Clubbed
as Angela
- 2008
- 2008 Hancock & Joan
as Joan Le Mesurier
- 2008
- 2008 Bike Squad
as WPC Kate McFay
- 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
- 2006
- 2006
- 2006
- 2006
- 2005 Frozen
as Ticket Attendant
- 2005 Faith
as Linda
- 2004 Christmas Lights
as Pauline
- 2004
- 2003
- 2003
- 2002 All or Nothing
as Party girl
- 2002 Hamilton Mattress
as Lulu (voice)
- 2001
- 2001
- 2000
- 2000
- 1999
- 1998
- 1998 Girls' Night
as Sharon
- 1997
- 1996
- 1996
- 1987
Behind the camera (5)
- 2022 Incompatible
Director
- 2021 Doughnut
Thanks
- 2018 The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca
Producer, Director
- 2018 Funny Cow
Executive Producer
- 2017 The Priest
Writer
Talk shows and appearances (19)
- Upcoming
- 2026
- 2025
- 2024
- 2022 Art That Made Us
2 episodes
- 2022
- 2020
- 2018 Dinnerladies Diaries
3 episodes
- 2018
- 2017
- 2017 We Have Been Watching
5 episodes
- 2015 Artsnight
1 episode
- 2007 The Alan Titchmarsh Show
1 episode
- 2007 The Graham Norton Show
2 episodes
- 2007
- 2006 The One Show
1 episode
- 2002 Timeshift
1 episode
- 2000
- 1978 The South Bank Show
2 episodes