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.
2011 • TV
2007 • TV
2006 • TV
2004 • TV
2025 • Movie
2012 • Movie
as Dottie Achenbach
as Isabel
as Self
as Hamlet
as Fiona Lacey
as Elaine Mason
as Linda
as Anna Politkovskaya
as Titania
as Angela
as Party girl
as Angie
as Helen
as Joan Le Mesurier
as Ticket Attendant
as Vanetia
as Pauline
as WPC Kate McFay
as Lulu (voice)
as Narrator
Director
Director
Producer
Writer
Executive Producer
as Bella
1 episodes
as Self
2 episodes
as Self - Guest
1 episodes
as Veronica Fisher
26 episodes
as Nadia
1 episodes
as Kalina Kalfus (voice)
1 episodes
as Self
1 episodes
as Doll Tearsheet
2 episodes
1 episodes
as Marion Cretiss
1 episodes
as Self - Narrator
1 episodes
as Self - Guest
1 episodes
as Photocopy Assistant
1 episodes
as Martha Costello QC
18 episodes
as Older Dolours Price
9 episodes
1 episodes
as Grace Middleton
12 episodes
as Juliet Miller
5 episodes
as Miss Wade
14 episodes
1 episodes
