Maxine Peake
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.
Acting (61 movies)
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007
Where We Used to Meet
2021
Dance First
2023
Words of War
2025
Clubbed
2008
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
2010
The Real Anne: Unfinished Business
2022
Christmas Lights
2004
Tish
2023
Wendell & Wild
2022
Edge
2010
Woken
2024
Svengali
2013
Run & Jump
2014
Hancock & Joan
2008
The Theory of Everything
2014
Keeping Rosy
2014
Something Out of Nothing
2022
Surfaces
2020
It's Me
2020
Lapushka!
2022
I Wish For You
2016
Strange Weather
2015
Judy
2019
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
2009
The Falling
2015
Hamlet
2015
The Great Mountain Sheep Gather
2020
Generation '66
2016
Faith
2005
Red Top
2016
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
2000
Choked Up
2023
Private Peaceful
2012
Bike Squad
2008
All or Nothing
2002
A Midsummer Night's Dream
2016
Hamilton Mattress
2002
Funny Cow
2018
Art Matters
2024
Keeping Up with the Joneses
2013
Best Laid Plans
2012
Frozen
2005
I Swear
2025
Fanny Lye Deliver'd
2019
Peterloo
2018
Men Who Sleep in Cars
2017
Wonders of the Moon
2018
Cake
2017
DeafBlind
2011
Gwen
2018
The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca
2018
The Priest
2017
Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle
2017
The Fear of Trilogy
2006
The Shuttleworths
2015
Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods
2017
Unseen
2017
Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels
2018
Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough
2025
The Occupant of the Room
2025
Directing (2 movies)
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| The Priest | 2017 | Writer |
| Funny Cow | 2018 | Executive Producer |
| The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca | 2018 | Producer |