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 E
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Id 76944
Known For Acting
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Gender Female
Birthday 1974-07-14
Place of Birth Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, UK
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Maxine Peake 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 s . . . . Read More moss
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Becoming Victoria Wood as Self 2025
The Occupant of the Room as 2025
Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough as Narrator 2025
I Swear as Dottie Achenbach 2025
Quiet on Set: The Class Division in the Film Industry? as Self 2025
Words of War as Anna Politkovskaya 2023
Tish as Tish Murtha (voice) 2023
Choked Up as Fiona Lacey 2022
Wendell & Wild as Irmgard Klaxon (voice) 2022
Inner Polar Bear as Narrator (voice) 2022
Lapushka! as Scoot Piccolo 2022
Something Out of Nothing as 2022
The Real Anne: Unfinished Business as Self- Presenter 2020
The Great Mountain Sheep Gather as Self - Narrator 2019
Fanny Lye Deliver'd as Fanny Lye 2019
Be Still My Beating Heart as 2018
The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca as Herself 2018
Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels as Friedrich Engels (voice) 2018
Wonders of the Moon as Narrator (voice) 2017
Men Who Sleep in Cars as Sarah 2017
Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle as Narrator 2017
Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods as Self (archive footage) 2016
Generation '66 as Narrator 2016
A Midsummer Night's Dream as Titania 2016
Red Top as Rebekah Brooks 2016
I Wish For You as Grown Up Mia 2015
The Falling as Eileen Lamont 2015
Strange Weather as Jane 2015
The Shuttleworths as Helen Bach 2014
The Theory of Everything as Elaine Mason 2014
Keeping Rosy as Charlotte 2013
Keeping Up with the Joneses as Celia 2013
The Heart Fails Without Warning as Mother 2012
Private Peaceful as Hazel Peaceful 2012
Best Laid Plans as Isabel 2010
Imaginary Friend as Pauline 2010
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister as Anne Lister 2009
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980 as Helen Marshall 2008
Hancock & Joan as Joan Le Mesurier 2008
Bike Squad as WPC Kate McFay 2007
Would Like To Meet as George's Mum 2007
I Am Bob as Marilyn Monroe Lookalike/Compere's Assistant 2007
Confessions of a Diary Secretary as Tracey Temple 2007
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas as Self 2006
The Madness of the Dance as 2005
Frozen as Ticket Attendant 2004
Christmas Lights as Pauline 2002
All or Nothing as Party girl 2002
Hamilton Mattress as Lulu (voice) 2000
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings as Self
Twisting My Melon as Linda Ryder
Coming Soon (16 episode) as Twinkle
Coming Soon (6 episode) as Janice
Coming Soon (1 episode) as Marion Cretiss
Coming Soon (5 episode) as Self
Coming Soon (5 episode) as Juliet Miller
Coming Soon (14 episode) as Miss Wade
Coming Soon (1 episode) as Self
Coming Soon (1 episode) as Kalina Kalfus (voice)
Coming Soon (1 episode) as Self - Narrator
Coming Soon (18 episode) as Martha Costello
Coming Soon (1 episode) as Self - Presenter
Coming Soon (2 episode) as Alice Aisgill
Coming Soon (1 episode) as Photocopy Assistant
Coming Soon (3 episode) as DS Vickie Clarke
Coming Soon (1 episode) as Miss Fozzard
Coming Soon (1 episode) as Marie Leach
Coming Soon (4 episode) as Sam Thompson
Coming Soon (1 episode) as Sue
Coming Soon (3 episode) as Sara Rowbotham
Coming Soon (2 episode) as Self - Actrice (Rules of the Game, Anne)
Coming Soon (2 episode) as Myra Hindley
Coming Soon (4 episode) as Elizabeth Lilburne
Coming Soon (26 episode) as Veronica Fisher
Coming Soon (1 episode) as Bella
Coming Soon (2 episode) as Self
Coming Soon (1 episode) as Receptionist
Coming Soon (6 episode) as Narrator
Coming Soon (6 episode) as Sadie
Coming Soon (9 episode) as Older Dolours Price
Coming Soon (2 episode) as Doll Tearsheet
Coming Soon (4 episode) as Anne Williams
Coming Soon (1 episode) as Nadia
Coming Soon (1 episode) as Self - Guest
Coming Soon (1 episode) as Susan Blower
Coming Soon (3 episode) as Self
Coming Soon (1 episode) as Self - Guest
Coming Soon (1 episode) as Cindy Mellor
Coming Soon (12 episode) as Grace Middleton 
