Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
July 14, 1974
Place of Birth:
Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, UK
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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
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Secret Life of the Safari Park | Narrator |
| 2024 | Say Nothing | Older Dolours Price |
| 2022 | Rules of the Game | Sam Thompson |
| 2022 | Art That Made Us | Self - Actrice (Rules of the Game, Anne) |
| 2022 | Anne | Anne Williams |
| 2021 | Star Wars: Visions | Kalina Kalfus (voice) |
| 2020 | Alan Bennett's Talking Heads | Miss Fozzard |
| 2018 | The Bisexual | Sadie |
| 2018 | The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer | Self - Guest |
| 2017 | We Have Been Watching | Self |
| 2017 | Three Girls | Sara Rowbotham |
| 2015 | Artsnight | Self - Presenter |
| 2014 | Inside No. 9 | Nadia |
| 2013 | The Village | Grace Middleton |
| 2012 | Room at the Top | Alice Aisgill |
| 2012 | The Hollow Crown | Doll Tearsheet |
| 2011 | Silk | Martha Costello |
| 2011 | Black Mirror | Bella |
| 2009 | Red Riding | |
| 2008 | Criminal Justice | Juliet Miller |
| 2008 | Little Dorrit | Miss Wade |
| 2008 | Fairy Tales | |
| 2008 | The Devil's Whore | Elizabeth Lilburne |
| 2007 | The Alan Titchmarsh Show | Self |
| 2007 | The Graham Norton Show | Self |
| 2006 | The Street | |
| 2006 | See No Evil: The Moors Murders | Myra Hindley |
| 2004 | Shameless | |
| 2004 | Shameless | Veronica Fisher |
| 2003 | Early Doors | Janice |
| 2003 | Comedy Connections | |
| 2002 | Timeshift | Self - Narrator |
| 2001 | Messiah | DS Vickie Clarke |
| 2001 | Linda Green | Receptionist |
| 2000 | Clocking Off | Marie Leach |
| 1999 | Sunburn | Sue |
| 1998 | dinnerladies | Twinkle |
| 1997 | Jonathan Creek | Marion Cretiss |
| 1996 | Dalziel & Pascoe | |
| 1996 | Hetty Wainthropp Investigates | Photocopy Assistant |
| 1987 | ChuckleVision | |
| The Dispatcher |