Maxine Peake
Actor
- Born
- July 14, 1974 (age 52) · Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, UK
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
The Theory of Everything
November 7, 2014
I Swear
September 22, 2025
Wendell & Wild
October 21, 2022
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
November 11, 2009
The Falling
April 24, 2015
All or Nothing
October 18, 2002
Peterloo
November 1, 2018
Clubbed
October 2, 2008
Gwen
July 12, 2018
Fanny Lye Deliver'd
October 10, 2019
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
March 1, 2010
Private Peaceful
October 12, 2012
Acting76
- 2026Crackula
- 2026Becoming Victoria Wood as Self
- 2025Laundreams
- 2025The Occupant of the Room as The Englishwoman (voice)
- 2025Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough as Narrator
- 2025I Swear as Dottie
- 2025Quiet on Set: The Class Division in the Film Industry? as Self
- 2025Words of War as Anna Politkovskaya
- 2024Art Matters as Self
- 2024Woken as Helen