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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Becoming Victoria Wood | Self | 2026-01-08 |
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Quiet on Set: The Class Division in the Film Industry? | Self | 2025-07-13 |
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The Occupant of the Room | 2025-10-24 | |
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I Swear | Dottie Achenbach | 2025-09-22 |
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Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough | Narrator | 2025-09-26 |
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Words of War | Anna Politkovskaya | 2025-05-02 |
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Art Matters | Self | 2024-07-24 |
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Woken | Helen | 2024-07-04 |
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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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Choked Up | Fiona Lacey | 2023-03-28 |
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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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Wendell & Wild | Irmgard Klaxon (voice) | 2022-10-21 |
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Something Out of Nothing | 2022-05-29 | |
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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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Be Still My Beating Heart | 2019-10-06 | |
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Judy | Judy | 2019-01-01 |
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Fanny Lye Deliver'd | Fanny Lye | 2019-10-10 |
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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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The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca | Herself | 2018-09-02 |
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Funny Cow | Funny Cow | 2018-04-20 |
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Peterloo | Nellie | 2018-11-01 |
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Gwen | Elen | 2018-07-12 |
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Unseen | Emma | 2017-09-22 |
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Cake | 2017-09-29 | |
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Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods | Self (archive footage) | 2017-04-21 |
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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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Men Who Sleep in Cars | Sarah | 2017-10-01 |
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A Midsummer Night's Dream | Titania | 2016-05-30 |
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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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Red Top | Rebekah Brooks | 2016-01-20 |
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Hamlet | Hamlet | 2015-03-23 |
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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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The Shuttleworths | Helen Bach | 2015-01-01 |
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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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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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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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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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Bike Squad | WPC Kate McFay | 2008-01-04 |
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Hancock & Joan | Joan Le Mesurier | 2008-03-26 |
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Clubbed | Angela | 2008-10-02 |
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Confessions of a Diary Secretary | Tracey Temple | 2007-02-28 |
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Would Like To Meet | George's Mum | 2007-07-31 |
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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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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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Hamilton Mattress | Lulu (voice) | 2002-01-01 |
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All or Nothing | Party girl | 2002-10-18 |
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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 |
