Maxine Peake
Acting
Born 1974-07-14 · 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
Last Seen
Bait
Helen
Becoming Victoria Wood
Self
Laundreams
The Occupant of the Room
The Englishwoman (voice)
Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough
Narrator
I Swear
Dottie
Quiet on Set: The Class Division in the Film Industry?
Self
Words of War
Anna Politkovskaya
The Haunted Season
The Englishwoman (voice)
Say Nothing
Older Dolours Price
Art Matters
Self
Woken
Helen
Secret Life of the Safari Park
Narrator
Tish
Tish Murtha (voice)
Dance First
Barbara
Choked Up
Fiona Lacey
Wendell & Wild
Irmgard Klaxon (voice)
Inner Polar Bear
Narrator (voice)
Lapushka!
Scoot Piccolo
Something Out of Nothing
Art That Made Us
Self - Actrice (Rules of the Game, Anne)
Rules of the Game
Sam Thompson
The Real Anne: Unfinished Business
Self- Presenter
Anne
Anne Williams
Where We Used to Meet
Star Wars: Visions
Kalina Kalfus (voice)
Mandy
Susan Blower
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
Miss Fozzard
Surfaces
Alix
