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.
★8.2
MOVIE2025
I Swear
as Dottie
★7.8
MOVIE2014
The Theory of Everything
as Elaine Mason
★7.1
MOVIE2002
All or Nothing
as Party girl
★1.0
MOVIE2019
Be Still My Beating Heart
★5.3
MOVIE2016
Red Top
as Rebekah Brooks
★6.3
MOVIE2018
Funny Cow
as Funny Cow
★6.6
MOVIE2022
Wendell & Wild
as Irmgard Klaxon (voice)
★5.9
MOVIE2014
Run & Jump
as Vanetia
★6.7
MOVIE2025
Words of War
as Anna Politkovskaya
★6.3
MOVIE2019
Fanny Lye Deliver'd
as Fanny Lye
★7.0
MOVIE2016
Generation '66
as Narrator
★7.0
MOVIE2025
Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough
as Narrator
★7.5
MOVIE2023
Choked Up
as Fiona Lacey
MOVIE2015
Strange Weather
as Jane
★5.1
MOVIE2015
The Falling
as Eileen Lamont
★9.0
MOVIE2005
Faith
as Linda
★5.9
MOVIE2005
Frozen
as Ticket Attendant
★6.6
MOVIE2012
Private Peaceful
as Hazel Peaceful
★4.0
MOVIE2017
Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle
as Narrator
★6.9
MOVIE2023
Dance First
as Barbara
★6.0
MOVIE2026
Becoming Victoria Wood
as Self
★5.5
MOVIE2012
Best Laid Plans
as Isabel
★6.8
MOVIE2018
Peterloo
as Nellie
★6.8
MOVIE1998
Girls' Night
as Sharon
★6.8
MOVIE2002
Hamilton Mattress
as Lulu (voice)
★6.6
MOVIE2018
Wonders of the Moon
as Narrator (voice)
MOVIE2016
I Wish For You
as Grown Up Mia
MOVIE2007
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
as Self
MOVIE2015
The Shuttleworths
as Helen Bach
★6.9
MOVIE2009
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
as Helen Marshall
MOVIE2022
Inner Polar Bear
as Narrator (voice)
★8.0
MOVIE2010
Imaginary Friend
as Pauline
MOVIETBA
Twisting My Melon
as Linda Ryder
★5.4
MOVIE2013
Svengali
as Angie
MOVIE2022
The Real Anne: Unfinished Business
as Self- Presenter
★5.4
MOVIE2016
A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Titania
★6.5
MOVIE2010
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
as Anne Lister
★7.0
MOVIE2000
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
as Self
MOVIE2025
Laundreams
MOVIE2017
Unseen
as Emma
★6.7
MOVIE2008
Clubbed
as Angela
★9.0
MOVIE2023
Tish
as Tish Murtha (voice)
★5.4
MOVIE2014
Keeping Rosy
as Charlotte
MOVIE2008
Bike Squad
as WPC Kate McFay
★10.0
MOVIE2024
Art Matters
as Self
★5.5
MOVIE2018
Gwen
as Elen
MOVIE2011
DeafBlind
as Maggie
MOVIE2021
Where We Used to Meet
★5.3
MOVIE2017
Cake
MOVIE2007
Confessions of a Diary Secretary
as Tracey Temple
★7.2
MOVIE2017
Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods
as Self (archive footage)
MOVIE2017
Men Who Sleep in Cars
as Sarah
★4.1
MOVIE2008
Hancock & Joan
as Joan Le Mesurier
MOVIE2020
Surfaces
as Alix
MOVIE2020
The Great Mountain Sheep Gather
as Self - Narrator
MOVIETBA
The Bright Side Running Club
★5.6
MOVIE2004
Christmas Lights
as Pauline
★5.4
MOVIE2024
Woken
as Helen
★7.5
MOVIE2007
I Am Bob
as Marilyn Monroe Lookalike/Compere's Assistant
★10.0
MOVIE2007
Would Like To Meet
as George's Mum
★8.2
MOVIE2015
Hamlet
as Hamlet
MOVIE2020
It's Me
as Miriam
★0.5
MOVIE2018
Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels
as Friedrich Engels (voice)
★6.0
MOVIE2010
Edge
as Elly
MOVIE2013
The Heart Fails Without Warning
as Mother
MOVIE2022
Something Out of Nothing
MOVIE2022
Lapushka!
as Scoot Piccolo
★5.9
MOVIE2013
Keeping Up with the Joneses
as Celia
MOVIE2017
The Priest
MOVIE2025
The Occupant of the Room
as The Englishwoman (voice)
MOVIE2019
Judy
as Judy
MOVIE2025
Quiet on Set: The Class Division in the Film Industry?
as Self
MOVIE2006
The Fear of Trilogy
★6.5
MOVIE2006
The Madness of the Dance
MOVIE2018
The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca
as Self