Cast
Maxine Peake
Acting
Cast
Maxine Peake
Known for
Acting
Born
1974-07-14
From
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.
I Swear
as Dottie
The Theory of Everything
as Elaine Mason
Words of War
as Anna Politkovskaya
Where We Used to Meet
Wendell & Wild
as Irmgard Klaxon (voice)
Peterloo
as Nellie
Woken
as Helen
The Falling
as Eileen Lamont
All or Nothing
as Party girl
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
as Helen Marshall
Private Peaceful
as Hazel Peaceful
Clubbed
as Angela
Fanny Lye Deliver'd
as Fanny Lye
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
as Self
Tish
as Tish Murtha (voice)
Frozen
as Ticket Attendant
Dance First
as Barbara
A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Titania
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
as Anne Lister
Funny Cow
as Funny Cow
Keeping Rosy
as Charlotte
Girls' Night
as Sharon
The Bright Side Running Club
Svengali
as Angie
Faith
as Linda
Best Laid Plans
as Isabel
Choked Up
as Fiona Lacey
Gwen
as Elen
Art Matters
as Self
Bike Squad
as WPC Kate McFay
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
as Self
Hamilton Mattress
as Lulu (voice)
Wonders of the Moon
as Narrator (voice)
Hancock & Joan
as Joan Le Mesurier
The Real Anne: Unfinished Business
as Self- Presenter
Hamlet
as Hamlet
Becoming Victoria Wood
as Self
Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough
as Narrator
Would Like To Meet
as George's Mum
Men Who Sleep in Cars
as Sarah
Confessions of a Diary Secretary
as Tracey Temple
Run & Jump
as Vanetia
The Priest
Red Top
as Rebekah Brooks
Unseen
as Emma
Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods
as Self (archive footage)
Generation '66
as Narrator
Christmas Lights
as Pauline
I Am Bob
as Marilyn Monroe Lookalike/Compere's Assistant
Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels
as Friedrich Engels (voice)
It's Me
as Miriam
Strange Weather
as Jane
Keeping Up with the Joneses
as Celia
DeafBlind
as Maggie
Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle
as Narrator
The Fear of Trilogy
Cake
Twisting My Melon
as Linda Ryder
Lapushka!
as Scoot Piccolo
The Occupant of the Room
as The Englishwoman (voice)
Surfaces
as Alix
Be Still My Beating Heart
I Wish For You
as Grown Up Mia
Judy
as Judy
The Madness of the Dance
The Heart Fails Without Warning
as Mother
Edge
as Elly
Quiet on Set: The Class Division in the Film Industry?
as Self
The Great Mountain Sheep Gather
as Self - Narrator
The Shuttleworths
as Helen Bach
Imaginary Friend
as Pauline
Something Out of Nothing
The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca
as Self
Laundreams
Inner Polar Bear
as Narrator (voice)