Maxine Peake
Acting
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.
As actor 122
The Graham Norton Show
2007
Black Mirror
2011
Shameless
2004
The One Show
2006
Silk
2011
I Swear
2025
Star Wars: Visions
2021
Inside No. 9
2014
Dalziel and Pascoe
1996
Jonathan Creek
1997
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
2007
ChuckleVision
1987
Bait
2026
Say Nothing
2024
The Hollow Crown
2012
Timeshift
2002
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
1996
Last Seen
2026
Little Dorrit
2008
The Theory of Everything
2014
The Village
2013
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
2018
Mandy
2020
Comedy Connections
2003
The Street
2006
Clocking Off
2000
At Home with the Braithwaites
2000
dinnerladies
1998
Wendell & Wild
2022
Criminal Justice
2008
Three Girls
2017
Red Riding
2009
The Devil's Whore
2008
Messiah
2001
Words of War
2025
The Bisexual
2018
Linda Green
2001
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
2020
Dance First
2023
Dinnerladies Diaries
2018
Anne
2022
Fairy Tales
2008
All or Nothing
2002
Sunburn
1999
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
2009
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007
Artsnight
2015
We Have Been Watching
2017
Art That Made Us
2022
Early Doors
2003
Room at the Top
2012
Peterloo
2018
Rules of the Game
2022
The Falling
2015
Fanny Lye Deliver'd
2019
Girls' Night
1998
Run & Jump
2014
Red Top
2016
Funny Cow
2018
Best Laid Plans
2012
Laundreams
2025
Private Peaceful
2012
Choked Up
2023
Hamilton Mattress
2002
Frozen
2005
Strange Weather
2015
Clubbed
2008
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
2010
Keeping Up with the Joneses
2013
Hancock & Joan
2008
A Midsummer Night's Dream
2016
Tish
2023
Keeping Rosy
2014
I Wish For You
2016
Svengali
2013
Gwen
2018
Woken
2024
The Shuttleworths
2015
Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough
2025
Generation '66
2016
Secret Life of the Safari Park
2024
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
2000
Unseen
2017
Becoming Victoria Wood
2026
The Haunted Season
2024
Confessions of a Diary Secretary
2007
Quiet on Set: The Class Division in the Film Industry?
2025
Surfaces
2020
Faith
2005
First Day on Earth
Imaginary Friend
2010
Christmas Lights
2004
Art Matters
2024
Wonders of the Moon
2018
Hamlet
2015
Cake
2017
DeafBlind
2011
I Am Bob
2007
Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle
2017
It's Me
2020
Be Still My Beating Heart
2019
The Occupant of the Room
2025
Inner Polar Bear
2022
Lapushka!
2022
The Priest
2017
Bike Squad
2008
Edge
2010
Where We Used to Meet
2021
The Real Anne: Unfinished Business
2022
Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods
2017
The Great Mountain Sheep Gather
2020
The Bright Side Running Club
Men Who Sleep in Cars
2017
The Fear of Trilogy
2006
The Heart Fails Without Warning
2013
Would Like To Meet
2007
The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca
2018
Judy
2019
The Madness of the Dance
2006
Something Out of Nothing
2022
Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels
2018
See No Evil: The Moors Murders
2006
