1974-07-14 Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, UK
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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Woken | Helen | 2024-03-03 |
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Dance First | Barbara | 2023-11-03 |
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Tish | Tish Murtha (voice) | 2023-11-17 |
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Something Out of Nothing | 2022-05-29 | |
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Wendell & Wild | Irmgard Klaxon (voice) | 2022-10-21 |
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Lapushka! | Scoot Piccolo | 2022-08-04 |
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The Real Anne: Unfinished Business | Self- Presenter | 2022-01-06 |
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Inner Polar Bear | Narrator (voice) | 2022-10-06 |
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Where We Used to Meet | 2021-09-28 | |
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Fanny Lye Deliver'd | Fanny Lye | 2021-07-29 |
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The Great Mountain Sheep Gather | Self - Narrator | 2020-04-13 |
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Surfaces | Alix | 2020-06-03 |
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It's Me | Miriam | 2020-01-02 |
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Be Still My Beating Heart | 2019-10-06 | |
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Judy | Judy | 2019-01-01 |
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Wonders of the Moon | Narrator (voice) | 2018-01-31 |
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The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca | Herself | 2018-09-02 |
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Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels | Friedrich Engels (voice) | 2018-06-22 |
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Funny Cow | Funny Cow | 2018-04-20 |
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Gwen | Elen | 2018-07-12 |
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Peterloo | Nellie | 2018-11-01 |
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Cake | 2017-09-29 | |
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Unseen | Emma | 2017-09-22 |
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Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods | Self (archive footage) | 2017-04-21 |
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The Priest | 2017-12-11 | |
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Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle | Narrator | 2017-06-08 |
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Men Who Sleep in Cars | Sarah | 2017-10-01 |
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Red Top | Rebekah Brooks | 2016-01-20 |
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A Midsummer Night's Dream | Titania | 2016-05-30 |
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I Wish For You | Grown Up Mia | 2016-01-01 |
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Generation '66 | Narrator | 2016-07-31 |
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The Shuttleworths | Helen Bach | 2015-01-01 |
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Strange Weather | Jane | 2015-01-02 |
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The Falling | Eileen Lamont | 2015-04-24 |
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Hamlet | Hamlet | 2015-03-23 |
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Run & Jump | Vanetia | 2014-01-24 |
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The Theory of Everything | Elaine Mason | 2014-11-26 |
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Keeping Rosy | Charlotte | 2014-06-08 |
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Keeping Up with the Joneses | Celia | 2013-10-18 |
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The Heart Fails Without Warning | Mother | 2013-01-01 |
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Svengali | Angie | 2013-06-19 |
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Private Peaceful | Hazel Peaceful | 2012-10-12 |
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Best Laid Plans | Isabel | 2012-02-03 |
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DeafBlind | Maggie | 2011-12-31 |
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The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister | Anne Lister | 2010-03-01 |
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Imaginary Friend | Pauline | 2010-05-08 |
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Edge | Elly | 2010-10-23 |
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Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980 | Helen Marshall | 2009-02-28 |
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Clubbed | Angela | 2008-10-02 |
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Hancock & Joan | Joan Le Mesurier | 2008-03-26 |
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Confessions of a Diary Secretary | Tracey Temple | 2007-02-28 |
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The 50 Greatest Television Dramas | Self | 2007-02-03 |
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I Am Bob | Marilyn Monroe Lookalike/Compere's Assistant | 2007-04-26 |
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Would Like To Meet | George's Mum | 2007-07-31 |
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The Madness of the Dance | 2006-01-01 | |
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The Fear of Trilogy | 2006-01-01 | |
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Frozen | Ticket Attendant | 2005-03-12 |
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Faith | Linda | 2005-02-28 |
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Christmas Lights | Pauline | 2004-12-20 |
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All or Nothing | Party girl | 2002-05-17 |
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Hamilton Mattress | Lulu (voice) | 2002-01-01 |
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Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings | 2000-12-25 | |
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Girls' Night | Sharon | 1998-06-26 |
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Twisting My Melon | Linda Ryder | |
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Anna | Anna Politkovskaya |
