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 | 2025-08-20 |
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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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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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Lapushka! | Scoot Piccolo | 2022-08-04 |
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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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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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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 | 2014-11-07 |
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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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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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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 | 2009-11-11 |
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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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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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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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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 |
