Maxine Peake
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1974-07-14 (51 years old)
Place of Birth
Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, UK
Also known As
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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 cl...
Acting
2007
1998
as Sharon
2023
as Barbara
2025
as Anna Politkovskaya
2008
as Angela
2010
as Anne Lister
2022
as Self- Presenter
2007
as Marilyn Monroe Lookalike/Compere's Assistant
2004
as Pauline
2023
as Tish Murtha (voice)
2010
as Elly
2022
as Irmgard Klaxon (voice)
2024
as Helen
2013
as Angie
2014
as Vanetia
2008
as Joan Le Mesurier
2014
as Elaine Mason
2007
as Tracey Temple
2014
as Charlotte
2020
as Alix
2022
as Scoot Piccolo
2019
as Judy
2015
as Jane
2016
as Grown Up Mia
2020
as Miriam
2009
as Helen Marshall
2015
as Eileen Lamont
2022
as Narrator (voice)
2015
as Hamlet
2020
as Self - Narrator
2016
as Narrator
2005
as Linda
2016
as Rebekah Brooks
2000
2023
as Fiona Lacey
2012
as Hazel Peaceful
2008
as WPC Kate McFay
2002
as Party girl
2016
as Titania
2002
as Lulu (voice)
2018
as Funny Cow
2024
as Self
2013
as Celia
2012
as Isabel
2005
as Ticket Attendant
2025
as Dottie Achenbach
2019
as Fanny Lye
2007
as George's Mum
2010
as Pauline
2013
as Mother
2018
as Nellie
2017
as Sarah
2018
as Narrator (voice)
2017
2011
as Maggie
2018
as Elen
2018
as Herself
2017
2017
2015
as Helen Bach
2017
as Self (archive footage)
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as Linda Ryder
2017
as Emma
2018
as Friedrich Engels (voice)
2025
as Narrator
Production
2022
as Director
2021
as Thanks
2018
as Director
2018
as Producer
2017
as Writer
2018
as Executive Producer
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