Maxine Peake
Acting
Born: 1974-07-14 · 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
🎬 Movies (20)
Becoming Victoria Wood
2026
Self
Laundreams
2025
The Occupant of the Room
2025
The Englishwoman (voice)
Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough
2025
Narrator
I Swear
2025
Dottie
Quiet on Set: The Class Division in the Film Industry?
2025
Self
Words of War
2025
Anna Politkovskaya
Art Matters
2024
Self
Woken
2024
Helen
Tish
2023
Tish Murtha (voice)
Dance First
2023
Barbara
Choked Up
2023
Fiona Lacey
Wendell & Wild
2022
Irmgard Klaxon (voice)
Inner Polar Bear
2022
Narrator (voice)
Lapushka!
2022
Scoot Piccolo
Something Out of Nothing
2022
The Real Anne: Unfinished Business
2022
Self- Presenter
Where We Used to Meet
2021
Surfaces
2020
Alix
The Great Mountain Sheep Gather
2020
Self - Narrator
📺 TV Shows (20)
Last Seen
2026
Bait
2026
Helen
The Haunted Season
2024
The Englishwoman (voice)
Say Nothing
2024
Older Dolours Price
Secret Life of the Safari Park
2024
Narrator
Art That Made Us
2022
Self - Actrice (Rules of the Game, Anne)
Rules of the Game
2022
Sam Thompson
Anne
2022
Anne Williams
Star Wars: Visions
2021
Kalina Kalfus (voice)
Mandy
2020
Susan Blower
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
2020
Miss Fozzard
The Bisexual
2018
Sadie
Dinnerladies Diaries
2018
Self
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
2018
Self - Guest
Three Girls
2017
Sara Rowbotham
We Have Been Watching
2017
Self
Artsnight
2015
Self - Presenter
Inside No. 9
2014
Nadia
The Village
2013
Grace Middleton
Room at the Top
2012
Alice Aisgill