
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 …
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Filmography
Acting (122)
Movies (73)
Becoming Victoria Wood
2026as Self
I Swear
2025as Dottie
Words of War
2025as Anna Politkovskaya
Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough
2025as Narrator
The Occupant of the Room
2025as The Englishwoman (voice)
Quiet on Set: The Class Division in the Film Industry?
2025as Self
Art Matters
2024as Self
Woken
2024as Helen
Choked Up
2023as Fiona Lacey
Tish
2023as Tish Murtha (voice)
Dance First
2023as Barbara
Something Out of Nothing
2022
Wendell & Wild
2022as Irmgard Klaxon (voice)
The Real Anne: Unfinished Business
2022as Self- Presenter
Lapushka!
2022as Scoot Piccolo
Inner Polar Bear
2022as Narrator (voice)
Where We Used to Meet
2021
The Great Mountain Sheep Gather
2020as Self - Narrator
Surfaces
2020as Alix
It's Me
2020as Miriam
Judy
2019as Judy
Fanny Lye Deliver'd
2019as Fanny Lye
Be Still My Beating Heart
2019
The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca
2018as Herself
Funny Cow
2018as Funny Cow
Peterloo
2018as Nellie
Gwen
2018as Elen
Wonders of the Moon
2018as Narrator (voice)
Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels
2018as Friedrich Engels (voice)
Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods
2017as Self (archive footage)
Unseen
2017as Emma
Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle
2017as Narrator
Cake
2017
Men Who Sleep in Cars
2017as Sarah
The Priest
2017
Red Top
2016as Rebekah Brooks
A Midsummer Night's Dream
2016as Titania
Generation '66
2016as Narrator
I Wish For You
2016as Grown Up Mia
Hamlet
2015as Hamlet
Strange Weather
2015as Jane
The Falling
2015as Eileen Lamont
The Shuttleworths
2015as Helen Bach
The Theory of Everything
2014as Elaine Mason
Run & Jump
2014as Vanetia
Keeping Rosy
2014as Charlotte
Svengali
2013as Angie
The Heart Fails Without Warning
2013as Mother
Keeping Up with the Joneses
2013as Celia
Private Peaceful
2012as Hazel Peaceful
Best Laid Plans
2012as Isabel
DeafBlind
2011as Maggie
Imaginary Friend
2010as Pauline
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
2010as Anne Lister
Edge
2010as Elly
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
2009as Helen Marshall
Clubbed
2008as Angela
Hancock & Joan
2008as Joan Le Mesurier
Bike Squad
2008as WPC Kate McFay
I Am Bob
2007as Marilyn Monroe Lookalike/Compere's Assistant
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007as Self
Confessions of a Diary Secretary
2007as Tracey Temple
Would Like To Meet
2007as George's Mum
The Madness of the Dance
2006
The Fear of Trilogy
2006
Frozen
2005as Ticket Attendant
Faith
2005as Linda
Christmas Lights
2004as Pauline
All or Nothing
2002as Party girl
Hamilton Mattress
2002as Lulu (voice)
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
2000as Self
Girls' Night
1998as Sharon
Twisting My Melon
as Linda Ryder
Television (49)
Bait
2026as Helen
Say Nothing
2024as Older Dolours Price
Secret Life of the Safari Park
2024as Narrator
The Haunted Season
2024as The Englishwoman (voice)
Anne
2022as Anne Williams
Rules of the Game
2022as Sam Thompson
Art That Made Us
2022as Self - Actrice (Rules of the Game, Anne)
Star Wars: Visions
2021as Kalina Kalfus (voice)
Mandy
2020as Susan Blower
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
2020as Miss Fozzard
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
2018as Self - Guest
The Bisexual
2018as Sadie
Dinnerladies Diaries
2018as Self
Three Girls
2017as Sara Rowbotham
We Have Been Watching
2017as Self
Artsnight
2015as Self - Presenter
Inside No. 9
2014as Nadia
The Village
2013as Grace Middleton
The Hollow Crown
2012as Doll Tearsheet
Room at the Top
2012as Alice Aisgill
Black Mirror
2011as Bella
Silk
2011as Martha Costello QC
Red Riding
2009
Criminal Justice
2008as Juliet Miller
Little Dorrit
2008as Miss Wade
The Devil's Whore
2008as Elizabeth Lilburne
Fairy Tales
2008as Cindy Mellor
The Graham Norton Show
2007as Self
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
2007as Self
The One Show
2006as Self - Guest
The Street
2006
Northern Lights
2006as Pauline
See No Evil: The Moors Murders
2006as Myra Hindley
Shameless
2004as Veronica Fisher
Shameless
2004as Veronica Fisher
Early Doors
2003as Janice
Comedy Connections
2003
Timeshift
2002as Self - Narrator
Messiah
2001as DS Vickie Clarke
Linda Green
2001as Receptionist
Clocking Off
2000as Marie Leach
Sunburn
1999as Sue
dinnerladies
1998as Twinkle
Jonathan Creek
1997as Marion Cretiss
Dalziel & Pascoe
1996
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
1996as Photocopy Assistant
ChuckleVision
1987First Day on Earth
as Helen
The Dispatcher
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