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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Words of War | Anna Politkovskaya | 2025-05-02 |
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Woken | Helen | 2024-07-04 |
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Art Matters | Self | 2024-07-24 |
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Tish | Tish Murtha (voice) | 2023-11-17 |
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Choked Up | Fiona Lacey | 2023-03-28 |
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Dance First | Barbara | 2023-11-03 |
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Wendell & Wild | Irmgard Klaxon (voice) | 2022-10-21 |
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Something Out of Nothing | 2022-05-29 | |
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Lapushka! | Scoot Piccolo | 2022-08-04 |
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Inner Polar Bear | Narrator (voice) | 2022-10-06 |
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The Real Anne: Unfinished Business | Self- Presenter | 2022-01-06 |
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Where We Used to Meet | 2021-09-28 | |
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Surfaces | Alix | 2020-06-03 |
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It's Me | Miriam | 2020-01-02 |
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The Great Mountain Sheep Gather | Self - Narrator | 2020-04-13 |
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Judy | Judy | 2019-01-01 |
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Be Still My Beating Heart | 2019-10-06 | |
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Fanny Lye Deliver'd | Fanny Lye | 2019-10-10 |
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Peterloo | Nellie | 2018-11-01 |
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Funny Cow | Funny Cow | 2018-04-20 |
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Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels | Friedrich Engels (voice) | 2018-06-22 |
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Wonders of the Moon | Narrator (voice) | 2018-01-31 |
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Gwen | Elen | 2018-07-12 |
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The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca | Herself | 2018-09-02 |
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Men Who Sleep in Cars | Sarah | 2017-10-01 |
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Cake | 2017-09-29 | |
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Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle | Narrator | 2017-06-08 |
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The Priest | 2017-12-11 | |
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Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods | Self (archive footage) | 2017-04-21 |
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Unseen | Emma | 2017-09-22 |
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Red Top | Rebekah Brooks | 2016-01-20 |
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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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A Midsummer Night's Dream | Titania | 2016-05-30 |
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Strange Weather | Jane | 2015-01-02 |
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Hamlet | Hamlet | 2015-03-23 |
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The Falling | Eileen Lamont | 2015-04-24 |
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The Shuttleworths | Helen Bach | 2015-01-01 |
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Run & Jump | Vanetia | 2014-01-24 |
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Keeping Rosy | Charlotte | 2014-06-08 |
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The Theory of Everything | Elaine Mason | 2014-11-07 |
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Keeping Up with the Joneses | Celia | 2013-10-18 |
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Svengali | Angie | 2013-06-19 |
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The Heart Fails Without Warning | Mother | 2013-01-01 |
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Best Laid Plans | Isabel | 2012-02-03 |
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Private Peaceful | Hazel Peaceful | 2012-10-12 |
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DeafBlind | Maggie | 2011-12-31 |
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Imaginary Friend | Pauline | 2010-05-08 |
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Edge | Elly | 2010-10-23 |
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The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister | Anne Lister | 2010-03-01 |
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Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980 | Helen Marshall | 2009-11-11 |
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Hancock & Joan | Joan Le Mesurier | 2008-03-26 |
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Bike Squad | WPC Kate McFay | 2008-01-04 |
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Clubbed | Angela | 2008-10-02 |
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The 50 Greatest Television Dramas | Self | 2007-02-03 |
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Would Like To Meet | George's Mum | 2007-07-31 |
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I Am Bob | Marilyn Monroe Lookalike/Compere's Assistant | 2007-04-26 |
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Confessions of a Diary Secretary | Tracey Temple | 2007-02-28 |
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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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Faith | Linda | 2005-02-28 |
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Frozen | Ticket Attendant | 2005-03-12 |
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Christmas Lights | Pauline | 2004-12-20 |
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All or Nothing | Party girl | 2002-10-18 |
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Hamilton Mattress | Lulu (voice) | 2002-01-01 |
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Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings | Self | 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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