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Maxine Peake
Actor, Producer, DirectorBorn July 14, 1974 (51 years)
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.
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Maxine Peake Filmography
| 2025 | I Swear · as Dottie Achenbach |
| 2025 | Reality Is Not Enough · as Narrator |
| 2025 | Words of War · as Anna Politkovskaya |
| 2024 | Say Nothing (TV Series) · as Older Dolours Price |
| 2024 | Secret Life of the Safari Park (TV Series) · as Narrator |
| 2023 | |
| 2023 | Tish · as Tish Murtha (voice) |
| 2023 | Dance First · as Barbara |
| 2023 | Choked Up · as Fiona Lacey |
| 2022 | Wendell & Wild · as Irmgard Klaxon (voice) |
| 2022 | Inner Polar Bear · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2022 | Rules of the Game (TV Series) · as Sam Thompson |
| 2022 | Anne (2022) (TV Series) · as Anne Williams |
| 2021 | Star Wars: Visions (TV Series) · as Kalina Kalfus (voice) |
| 2020 | Alan Bennett's Talking Heads (TV Series) · as Miss Fozzard |
| 2020 | The Way Back · as Alyssa, The Satnav |
| 2019 | The Delivered · as Fanny Lye |
| 2019 | Mandy (TV Series) · as Susan Blower |
| 2018 | Peterloo · as Nellie |
| 2018 | The Bisexual (TV Series) · as Sadie |
| 2018 | Gwen · as Elen |
| 2018 | 999: Rescue Squad (TV Series) · as Narrator |
| 2018 | Wonders of the Moon · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2017 | |
| 2017 | Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle · as Narrator |
| 2017 | Three Girls (TV Series) · as Sara Rowbotham |
| 2016 | A Midsummer Night's Dream · as Titania |
| 2015 | |
| 2015 | Billionaire's Paradise: Inside Necker Island · as Narrator |
| 2014 | The Theory of Everything · as Elaine Mason |
| 2014 | The Falling · as Eileen Lamont |
| 2014 | Keeping Rosy · as Charlotte |
| 2014 | Inside No. 9 (TV Series) · as Nadia |
| 2013 | Keeping Up with the Joneses · as Celia |
| 2013 | Run & Jump · as Vanetia |
| 2013 | Svengali · as Angie |
| 2013 | The Village (TV Series) · as Grace Middleton |
| 2012 | Private Peaceful · as Hazel Peaceful |
| 2012 | Room at the Top (TV Series) · as Alice Aisgill |
| 2012 | The Hollow Crown (TV Series) · as Doll Tearsheet |
| 2012 | Best Laid Plans · as Isabel |
| 2012 | The Making of Henry IV Part 2 · as Doll Tearsheet |
| 2011 | DeafBlind · as Maggie |
| 2011 | Black Mirror (TV Series) · as Bella |
| 2011 | Silk (TV Series) · as Martha Costello |
| 2010 | Edge · as Elly |
| 2010 | The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister · as Anne Lister |
| 2009 | Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980 · as Helen Marshall |
| 2009 | Red Riding (TV Series) |
| 2008 | The Devil's Whore (TV Series) · as Elizabeth Lilburne |
| 2008 | Little Dorrit (TV Series) · as Miss Wade |
| 2008 | |
| 2008 | Criminal Justice (TV Series) · as Juliet Miller |
| 2008 | Hancock & Joan · as Joan Le Mesurier |
| 2008 | Bike Squad · as Wpc Kate Mcfay |
| 2008 | Fairy Tales (TV Series) · as Cindy Mellor |
| 2007 | Confessions of a Diary Secretary · as Tracey Temple |
| 2006 | See No Evil: The Moors Murders (TV Series) · as Myra Hindley |
| 2006 | The Street (TV Series) |
| 2006 | |
| 2006 | |
| 2005 | Frozen · as Ticket Attendant |
| 2005 | Faith · as Linda |
| 2004 | Christmas Lights · as Pauline |
| 2004 | Agatha Christie's Marple (TV Series) · as Jolly Bellever |
| 2004 | |
| 2003 | Comedy Connections (TV Series) |
| 2003 | Early Doors (TV Series) · as Janice |
| 2002 | All or Nothing · as Party Girl |
| 2001 | Hamilton Mattress · as Lulu (voice) |
| 2001 | The Way We Live Now (TV Series) · as Ruby Ruggles |
| 2001 | Linda Green (TV Series) · as Receptionist |
| 2001 | Messiah (TV Series) · as Ds Vickie Clarke |
| 2000 | Clocking Off (TV Series) · as Marie Leach |
| 2000 | At Home with the Braithwaites (TV Series) · as Trixie Fletcher |
| 1999 | Sunburn (TV Series) · as Sue |
| 1999 | Holby City (TV Series) · as Tanya Wilton |
| 1998 | dinnerladies (TV Series) · as Twinkle |
| 1998 | Girls' Night · as Sharon |
| 1997 | Jonathan Creek (TV Series) · as Marion Cretiss |
| 1996 | Dalziel and Pascoe (TV Series) |
| 1995 | Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (TV Series) · as Photocopy Assistant |
| 1989 | Children's Ward (TV Series) · as Geraldine |
| 1987 | ChuckleVision (TV Series) |
| 1982 | The Comic Strip Presents... (TV Series) · as Rebekah Brooks |
| 1960 | Coronation Street (TV Series) · as Belinda Peach |
| 2026 | Becoming Victoria Wood · as Self |
| 2024 | Art Matters · as Self |
| 2022 | Kelvin's Big Farming Adventure (TV Series) · as Self - Narrator |
| 2020 | The Great Mountain Sheep Gather · as Self - Narrator |
| 2018 | The Great Celebrity Bake Off for SU2C (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2017 | Bunch of Kunst · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2017 | The Acting Class · as Self |
| 2015 | My Psychic Life · as Self - Narrator |
| 2013 | You Saw Them Here First (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2011 | Silk: Behind the Scenes · as Self |
| 2007 | The Alan Titchmarsh Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2007 | The Graham Norton Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2006 | The ONE Show (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2006 | CBeebies Bedtime Stories (TV Series) · as Self - Storyteller |
| 2005 | Sunday Morning (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2004 | The Paul O'Grady Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2002 | Timeshift (TV Series) · as Self - Narrator |
| 2002 | Today with Des and Mel (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2001 | Richard & Judy (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2000 | Victoria Wood: With All the Trimmings · as Self |
| 2000 | BBC Breakfast (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1990 | Cutting Edge (TV Series) · as Self - Narrator |
| 1988 | This Morning (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1980 | Granada Reports (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1980 | Newsnight (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1978 | The South Bank Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1953 | Panorama (TV Series) · as Self - Narrator |
| 2022 |