Name
Maxine Peake
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1974-07-14 (52 years old)
Place of Birth
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
The Theory of Everything
(11,243 Votes)
7.825
Once a healthy, active young man, Hawking received an earth-shattering diagnosis at 21 yea...
Relase Date : 7 Nov, 2014
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All or Nothing
(179 Votes)
7.056
Penny works at a supermarket and Phil is a gentle taxi-driver. Penny’s love for Phil has...
Relase Date : 18 Oct, 2002
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Words of War
(33 Votes)
6.697
World-renowned journalist and human rights activist Anna Politkovskaya went from being a l...
Relase Date : 2 May, 2025
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Best Laid Plans
(30 Votes)
5.5
David Blair directs this powerful British Drama, loosely inspired by John Steinbeck's nove...
Relase Date : 3 Feb, 2012
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Dance First
(25 Votes)
6.9
Parisian bon vivant, World War II Resistance fighter, Nobel Prize-winning playwright, phil...
Relase Date : 3 Nov, 2023
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The Falling
(200 Votes)
5.098
England, 1969. The fascinating Abbie and the troubled Lydia are great friends. After an un...
Relase Date : 24 Apr, 2015
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Movies
Tv Shows
- 2007 The 50 Greatest Television Dramas as Self
- 1998 Girls' Night as Sharon
- 2021 Where We Used to Meet
- 2023 Dance First as Barbara
- 2025 Words of War as Anna Politkovskaya
- 2008 Clubbed as Angela
- 2010 The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister as Anne Lister
- 2022 The Real Anne: Unfinished Business as Self- Presenter
- 2007 I Am Bob as Marilyn Monroe Lookalike/Compere's Assistant
- 2004 Christmas Lights as Pauline
- 2023 Tish as Tish Murtha (voice)
- 2010 Edge as Elly
- 2022 Wendell & Wild as Irmgard Klaxon (voice)
- 2024 Woken as Helen
- 2013 Svengali as Angie
- 2014 Run & Jump as Vanetia
- 2008 Hancock & Joan as Joan Le Mesurier
- 2014 The Theory of Everything as Elaine Mason
- 2007 Confessions of a Diary Secretary as Tracey Temple
- 2014 Keeping Rosy as Charlotte
- 2022 Something Out of Nothing
- 2020 Surfaces as Alix
- 2022 Lapushka! as Scoot Piccolo
- 2019 Judy as Judy
- 2015 Strange Weather as Jane
- 2016 I Wish For You as Grown Up Mia
- 2020 It's Me as Miriam
- 2009 Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980 as Helen Marshall
- 2015 The Falling as Eileen Lamont
- 2022 Inner Polar Bear as Narrator (voice)
- 2015 Hamlet as Hamlet
- 2020 The Great Mountain Sheep Gather as Self - Narrator
- 2006 The Madness of the Dance
- 2016 Generation '66 as Narrator
- 2005 Faith as Linda
- 2016 Red Top as Rebekah Brooks
- 2000 Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings as Self
- 2023 Choked Up as Fiona Lacey
- 2012 Private Peaceful as Hazel Peaceful
- 2008 Bike Squad as WPC Kate McFay
- 2002 All or Nothing as Party girl
- 2016 A Midsummer Night's Dream as Titania
- 2002 Hamilton Mattress as Lulu (voice)
- 2018 Funny Cow as Funny Cow
- 2024 Art Matters as Self
- 2013 Keeping Up with the Joneses as Celia
- 2012 Best Laid Plans as Isabel
- 2005 Frozen as Ticket Attendant
- 2025 I Swear as Dottie
- 2019 Fanny Lye Deliver'd as Fanny Lye
- 2007 Would Like To Meet as George's Mum
- 2010 Imaginary Friend as Pauline
- 2013 The Heart Fails Without Warning as Mother
- 2018 Peterloo as Nellie
- 2017 Men Who Sleep in Cars as Sarah
- 2018 Wonders of the Moon as Narrator (voice)
- 2017 Cake
- 2011 DeafBlind as Maggie
- 2018 Gwen as Elen
- 2018 The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca as Self
- 2017 The Priest
- 2017 Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle as Narrator
- 2006 The Fear of Trilogy
- 2015 The Shuttleworths as Helen Bach
- 2017 Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods as Self (archive footage)
- 2019 Be Still My Beating Heart
- 2017 Unseen as Emma
- 2018 Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels as Friedrich Engels (voice)
- 2025 Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough as Narrator
- 2025 Quiet on Set: The Class Division in the Film Industry? as Self
- 2025 The Occupant of the Room as The Englishwoman (voice)
- 2026 Becoming Victoria Wood as Self
- Soon The Bright Side Running Club
- 2025 Laundreams
- 1998 dinnerladies ( 16 episodes ) as Twinkle
- 2003 Early Doors ( 6 episodes ) as Janice
- 1987 ChuckleVision ( 1 episode )
- 1997 Jonathan Creek ( 1 episode ) as Marion Cretiss
- 2003 Comedy Connections ( 1 episode )
- 2017 We Have Been Watching ( 5 episodes ) as Self
- 2008 Criminal Justice ( 5 episodes ) as Juliet Miller
- 2008 Little Dorrit ( 14 episodes ) as Miss Wade
- 2007 The Alan Titchmarsh Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2006 The Street ( 1 episode )
- 2021 Star Wars: Visions ( 1 episode ) as Kalina Kalfus (voice)
- 2009 Red Riding ( 1 episode )
- 2002 Timeshift ( 1 episode ) as Self - Narrator
- 2015 Artsnight ( 1 episode ) as Self - Presenter
- 2012 Room at the Top ( 2 episodes ) as Alice Aisgill
- 1996 Hetty Wainthropp Investigates ( 1 episode ) as Photocopy Assistant
- 2001 Messiah ( 3 episodes ) as DS Vickie Clarke
- 2020 Alan Bennett's Talking Heads ( 1 episode ) as Miss Fozzard
- 2000 Clocking Off ( 1 episode ) as Marie Leach
- 2022 Rules of the Game ( 4 episodes ) as Sam Thompson
- 1999 Sunburn ( 1 episode ) as Sue
- 2017 Three Girls ( 3 episodes ) as Sara Rowbotham
- 2022 Art That Made Us ( 2 episodes ) as Self - Actrice (Rules of the Game, Anne)
- 2006 See No Evil: The Moors Murders ( 2 episodes ) as Myra Hindley
- 2008 The Devil's Whore ( 4 episodes ) as Elizabeth Lilburne
- 2004 Shameless ( 26 episodes ) as Veronica Fisher
- 2011 Black Mirror ( 1 episode ) as Bella
- 2007 The Graham Norton Show ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 2001 Linda Green ( 1 episode ) as Receptionist
- 2024 Secret Life of the Safari Park ( 6 episodes ) as Narrator
- 2018 The Bisexual ( 6 episodes ) as Sadie
- 2024 Say Nothing ( 9 episodes ) as Older Dolours Price
- 2012 The Hollow Crown ( 2 episodes ) as Doll Tearsheet
- 2022 Anne ( 4 episodes ) as Anne Williams
- 2014 Inside No. 9 ( 1 episode ) as Nadia
- 2018 The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
- 2026 Last Seen ( 6 episodes ) as Jenna Reid
- 2020 Mandy ( 1 episode ) as Susan Blower
- 2018 Dinnerladies Diaries ( 3 episodes ) as Self
- 2006 The One Show ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
- 2008 Fairy Tales ( 1 episode ) as Cindy Mellor
- 2013 The Village ( 12 episodes ) as Grace Middleton
- 2011 Silk ( 18 episodes ) as Martha Costello QC
- Soon First Day on Earth ( 0 episode ) as Helen
- 2026 Bait ( 2 episodes ) as Helen
- 2024 The Haunted Season ( 1 episode ) as The Englishwoman (voice)
- 1996 Dalziel and Pascoe ( 1 episode ) as Dr Allison Laurie
