Maxine Peake
- Acting
- July 14, 1974 · 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 · Jenna Reid
- Bait · Helen
- Becoming Victoria Wood · Self
- Laundreams
- The Occupant of the Room · The Englishwoman (Voice)
- Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough · Narrator
- I Swear · Dottie
- Quiet on Set: The Class Division in the Film Industry? · Self
- Words of War · Anna Politkovskaya
- The Haunted Season · The Englishwoman (Voice)
- Say Nothing · Older Dolours Price
- Art Matters · Self
- Woken · Helen
- Secret Life of the Safari Park · Narrator
- Tish · Tish Murtha (Voice)
- Dance First · Barbara
- Choked Up · Fiona Lacey
- Wendell & Wild · Irmgard Klaxon (Voice)
- Inner Polar Bear · Narrator (Voice)
- Lapushka! · Scoot Piccolo
- Something Out of Nothing
- Incompatible · Director
- Art That Made Us · Self
- Rules of the Game · Sam Thompson
- The Real Anne: Unfinished Business · Self
- Anne · Anne Williams
- Where We Used to Meet
- Star Wars: Visions · Kalina Kalfus (Voice)
- Doughnut · Thanks
- Mandy · Susan Blower
- Alan Bennett's Talking Heads · Miss Fozzard
- Surfaces · Alix
- The Great Mountain Sheep Gather · Self
- It's Me · Miriam
- Fanny Lye Deliver'd · Fanny Lye
- Be Still My Beating Heart
- Judy · Judy
- Peterloo · Nellie
- The Bisexual · Sadie
- The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca · Self, Director
- Gwen · Elen
- Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels · Friedrich Engels (Voice)
- Funny Cow · Funny Cow, Executive producer
- Dinnerladies Diaries · Self
- The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer · Self
- Wonders of the Moon · Narrator (Voice)
- The Priest · Writer
- Men Who Sleep in Cars · Sarah
- Cake
- Unseen · Emma
- Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle · Narrator
- Three Girls · Sara Rowbotham
- Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods · Self
- We Have Been Watching · Self
- Generation '66 · Narrator
- A Midsummer Night's Dream · Titania
- Red Top · Rebekah Brooks
- I Wish For You · Grown Up Mia
- The Falling · Eileen Lamont
- Hamlet · Hamlet
- Artsnight · Self
- Strange Weather · Jane
- The Shuttleworths · Helen Bach
- The Theory of Everything · Elaine Mason
- Keeping Rosy · Charlotte
- Inside No. 9 · Nadia
- Run & Jump · Vanetia
- Keeping Up with the Joneses · Celia
- Svengali · Angie
- The Village · Grace Middleton
- The Heart Fails Without Warning · Mother
- Private Peaceful · Hazel Peaceful
- Room at the Top · Alice Aisgill
- The Hollow Crown · Doll Tearsheet
- Best Laid Plans · Isabel
- DeafBlind · Maggie
- Black Mirror · Bella
- Silk · Martha Costello QC
- Edge · Elly