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.
Born: July 14, 1974
Place of Birth: Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, UK
Known For
Filmography
as Narrator
as Dottie Achenbach
as Anna Politkovskaya
as Older Dolours Price
as Self
as Helen
as Narrator
as Tish Murtha (voice)
as Barbara
as Fiona Lacey
as Irmgard Klaxon (voice)
as Scoot Piccolo
as Self - Actrice (Rules of the Game, Anne)
as Sam Thompson
as Self- Presenter
as Anne Williams
as Kalina Kalfus (voice)
as Susan Blower
as Miss Fozzard
as Alix
as Self - Narrator
as Miriam
as Fanny Lye
as Judy
as Nellie
as Sadie
as Herself
as Elen
as Friedrich Engels (voice)
as Funny Cow
as Self
as Self - Guest
as Narrator (voice)
as Sarah
as Emma
as Sara Rowbotham
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Narrator
as Titania
as Rebekah Brooks
as Grown Up Mia
as Eileen Lamont
as Hamlet
as Jane
as Helen Bach
as Elaine Mason
as Charlotte
as Nadia
as Vanetia
as Celia
as Angie
as Grace Middleton
as Hazel Peaceful
as Alice Aisgill
as Doll Tearsheet
as Isabel
as Maggie
as Bella
as Martha Costello
as Elly
as Anne Lister
as Helen Marshall
as Elizabeth Lilburne
as Miss Wade
as Angela
as Juliet Miller
as Joan Le Mesurier
as WPC Kate McFay
as Self
as Self - Guest
as Myra Hindley
as Ticket Attendant
as Linda
as Pauline
as Veronica Fisher
as Janice
as Party girl
as Self - Narrator
as Lulu (voice)
as Receptionist
as DS Vickie Clarke
as Marie Leach
as Sue
as Twinkle
as Marion Cretiss
as Photocopy Assistant
as Linda Ryder