Maxine Peake
Acting
- Born:
- 1974-07-14
- Place of birth:
- 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.
Known For
Filmography
Crackula
Last Seen
Bait
Becoming Victoria Wood
Laundreams
The Occupant of the Room
Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough
I Swear
Quiet on Set: The Class Division in the Film Industry?
Words of War
The Haunted Season
Say Nothing
Art Matters
Woken
Secret Life of the Safari Park
Tish
Dance First
Choked Up
Wendell & Wild
Inner Polar Bear
Lapushka!
Something Out of Nothing
Art That Made Us
Rules of the Game
The Real Anne: Unfinished Business
Anne
Where We Used to Meet
Star Wars: Visions
Mandy
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
Surfaces
The Great Mountain Sheep Gather
It's Me
Fanny Lye Deliver'd
Be Still My Beating Heart
Judy
Peterloo
The Bisexual
The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca
Gwen
Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels
Funny Cow
Dinnerladies Diaries
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
Wonders of the Moon
The Priest
Men Who Sleep in Cars
Cake
Unseen
Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle
Three Girls
Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods
We Have Been Watching
Generation '66
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Red Top
I Wish For You
The Falling
Hamlet
Artsnight
Strange Weather
The Shuttleworths
The Theory of Everything
Keeping Rosy
Inside No. 9
Run & Jump
Keeping Up with the Joneses
Svengali
The Village
The Heart Fails Without Warning
Private Peaceful
Room at the Top
The Hollow Crown
Best Laid Plans
DeafBlind
Black Mirror
Silk
Edge
Imaginary Friend
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
Red Riding
The Devil's Whore
Little Dorrit
Clubbed
Criminal Justice
Hancock & Joan
Fairy Tales
Bike Squad
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
Would Like To Meet
I Am Bob
Confessions of a Diary Secretary
The Graham Norton Show
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
The One Show
See No Evil: The Moors Murders
The Street
The Madness of the Dance
The Fear of Trilogy
Frozen
Faith
Christmas Lights
Shameless
Comedy Connections
Early Doors
All or Nothing
Timeshift
Hamilton Mattress
Linda Green
Messiah
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
Clocking Off
At Home with the Braithwaites
Sunburn
dinnerladies
Girls' Night
Jonathan Creek
Dalziel and Pascoe
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
ChuckleVision
The South Bank Show
The Bright Side Running Club
Obsession: The Beryl Burton Story
First Day on Earth
The Unheard