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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I Swear | Dottie Achenbach | 2025-10-10 |
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Words of War | Anna Politkovskaya | 2025-05-02 |
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Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough | Narrator | 2025-09-26 |
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Quiet on Set: The Class Division in the Film Industry? | Self | 2025-07-13 |
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Art Matters | Self | 2024-07-24 |
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Woken | Helen | 2024-07-04 |
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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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Something Out of Nothing | 2022-05-29 | |
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Inner Polar Bear | Narrator (voice) | 2022-10-06 |
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Lapushka! | Scoot Piccolo | 2022-08-04 |
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Wendell & Wild | Irmgard Klaxon (voice) | 2022-10-21 |
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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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The Great Mountain Sheep Gather | Self - Narrator | 2020-04-13 |
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It's Me | Miriam | 2020-01-02 |
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Fanny Lye Deliver'd | Fanny Lye | 2019-10-10 |
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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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Peterloo | Nellie | 2018-11-01 |
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Funny Cow | Funny Cow | 2018-04-20 |
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The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca | Herself | 2018-09-02 |
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Gwen | Elen | 2018-07-12 |
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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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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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Cake | 2017-09-29 | |
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Men Who Sleep in Cars | Sarah | 2017-10-01 |
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Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle | Narrator | 2017-06-08 |
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A Midsummer Night's Dream | Titania | 2016-05-30 |
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Red Top | Rebekah Brooks | 2016-01-20 |
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Generation '66 | Narrator | 2016-07-31 |
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I Wish For You | Grown Up Mia | 2016-01-01 |
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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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Strange Weather | Jane | 2015-01-02 |
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Keeping Rosy | Charlotte | 2014-06-08 |
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Run & Jump | Vanetia | 2014-01-24 |
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The Theory of Everything | Elaine Mason | 2014-11-07 |
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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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Keeping Up with the Joneses | Celia | 2013-10-18 |
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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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Edge | Elly | 2010-10-23 |
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Imaginary Friend | Pauline | 2010-05-08 |
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The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister | Anne Lister | 2010-03-01 |
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Criminal Justice II | Juliet Miller | 2009-10-05 |
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Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980 | Helen Marshall | 2009-11-11 |
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Clubbed | Angela | 2008-10-02 |
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Bike Squad | WPC Kate McFay | 2008-01-04 |
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Hancock & Joan | Joan Le Mesurier | 2008-03-26 |
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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 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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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 | 2002-10-18 |
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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 |
