Personal Info
Known Credits
69
Gender
Female
Birthdate
1974-07-14 (51 Y.O)
Place Of Birth
Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, UK
Also Known For
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 ...
Known For
Acting
2024 --
Art Matters
| Self
2024 --
Woken
| Helen
2023 --
Tish
| Tish Murtha (voice)
2023 --
Dance First
| Barbara
2023 --
Choked Up
| Fiona Lacey
2022 --
Wendell & Wild
| Irmgard Klaxon (voice)
2022 --
Inner Polar Bear
| Narrator (voice)
2022 --
Lapushka!
| Scoot Piccolo
2022 --
Something Out of Nothing
|
2022 --
The Real Anne: Unfinished Business
| Self- Presenter
2021 --
Where We Used to Meet
|
2020 --
Surfaces
| Alix
2020 --
The Great Mountain Sheep Gather
| Self - Narrator
2020 --
It's Me
| Miriam
2019 --
Fanny Lye Deliver'd
| Fanny Lye
2019 --
Be Still My Beating Heart
|
2019 --
Judy
| Judy
2018 --
Peterloo
| Nellie
2018 --
The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca
| Herself
2018 --
Gwen
| Elen
2018 --
Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels
| Friedrich Engels (voice)
2018 --
Funny Cow
| Funny Cow
2018 --
Wonders of the Moon
| Narrator (voice)
2017 --
The Priest
|
2017 --
Men Who Sleep in Cars
| Sarah
2017 --
Cake
|
2017 --
Unseen
| Emma
2017 --
Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle
| Narrator
2017 --
Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods
| Self (archive footage)
2016 --
Generation '66
| Narrator
2016 --
A Midsummer Night's Dream
| Titania
2016 --
Red Top
| Rebekah Brooks
2016 --
I Wish For You
| Grown Up Mia
2015 --
The Falling
| Eileen Lamont
2015 --
Hamlet
| Hamlet
2015 --
Strange Weather
| Jane
2015 --
The Shuttleworths
| Helen Bach
2014 --
The Theory of Everything
| Elaine Mason
2014 --
Keeping Rosy
| Charlotte
2014 --
Run & Jump
| Vanetia
2013 --
Keeping Up with the Joneses
| Celia
2013 --
Svengali
| Angie
2013 --
The Heart Fails Without Warning
| Mother
2012 --
Private Peaceful
| Hazel Peaceful
2012 --
Best Laid Plans
| Isabel
2011 --
DeafBlind
| Maggie
2010 --
Edge
| Elly
2010 --
Imaginary Friend
| Pauline
2010 --
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
| Anne Lister
2009 --
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
| Helen Marshall
2008 --
Clubbed
| Angela
2008 --
Hancock & Joan
| Joan Le Mesurier
2008 --
Bike Squad
| WPC Kate McFay
2007 --
Would Like To Meet
| George's Mum
2007 --
I Am Bob
| Marilyn Monroe Lookalike/Compere's Assistant
2007 --
Confessions of a Diary Secretary
| Tracey Temple
2007 --
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
| Self
2006 --
The Fear of Trilogy
|
2006 --
The Madness of the Dance
|
2005 --
Frozen
| Ticket Attendant
2005 --
Faith
| Linda
2004 --
Christmas Lights
| Pauline
2002 --
All or Nothing
| Party girl
2002 --
Hamilton Mattress
| Lulu (voice)
2000 --
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
| Self
1998 --
Girls' Night
| Sharon