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.
Filmography (121)
Becoming Victoria Wood2026
Last Seen2026
Bait2026
Words of War2025
I Swear2025
Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough2025
Quiet on Set: The Class Division in the Film Industry?2025
The Occupant of the Room2025
Laundreams2025
Woken2024
Art Matters2024
Secret Life of the Safari Park2024
Say Nothing2024
The Haunted Season2024
Dance First2023
Tish2023
Choked Up2023
The Real Anne: Unfinished Business2022
Wendell & Wild2022
Something Out of Nothing2022
Lapushka!2022
Inner Polar Bear2022
Rules of the Game2022
Art That Made Us2022
Anne2022
Where We Used to Meet2021
Star Wars: Visions2021
Surfaces2020
It's Me2020
The Great Mountain Sheep Gather2020
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads2020
Mandy2020
Judy2019
Fanny Lye Deliver'd2019
Be Still My Beating Heart2019
Funny Cow2018
Peterloo2018
Wonders of the Moon2018
Gwen2018
The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca2018
Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels2018
The Bisexual2018
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer2018
Dinnerladies Diaries2018
Men Who Sleep in Cars2017
Cake2017
The Priest2017
Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle2017
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