Known For
Acting
Born
Jul 14, 1974
Place of Birth
Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, UK
Credits
123 titles
Maxine Peake
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
Last Seen
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 - Actrice (Rules of the Game, Anne)
Rules of the Game
Sam Thompson
The Real Anne: Unfinished Business
Self- Presenter
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 - Narrator
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
Gwen
Elen
Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Engels (voice)
Funny Cow
Funny Cow
Dinnerladies Diaries
Self
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
Self - Guest
Wonders of the Moon
Narrator (voice)
The Priest
Men Who Sleep in Cars
Sarah
Cake
Unseen
Emma