Maxine Peake
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.
Fotos
Películas (79)
Obsession: The Beryl Burton Story
2026 · Self
Crackula
2026
Becoming Victoria Wood
2026 · Self
Laundreams
2025
The Occupant of the Room
2025 · The Englishwoman (voice)
The Secret Assistants
2025 · Executive Producer
Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough
2025 · Narrator
I Swear
2025 · Dottie
Quiet on Set: The Class Division in the Film Industry?
2025 · Self
Words of War
2025 · Anna Politkovskaya
Art Matters
2024 · Self
Woken
2024 · Helen
Tish
2023 · Tish Murtha (voice)
Dance First
2023 · Barbara
Choked Up
2023 · Fiona Lacey
Wendell & Wild
2022 · Irmgard Klaxon (voice)
Inner Polar Bear
2022 · Narrator (voice)
Lapushka!
2022 · Scoot Piccolo
Something Out of Nothing
2022
Incompatible
2022 · Director
The Real Anne: Unfinished Business
2022 · Self- Presenter
Where We Used to Meet
2021
Doughnut
2021 · Thanks
Surfaces
2020 · Alix
The Great Mountain Sheep Gather
2020 · Self - Narrator
It's Me
2020 · Miriam
Fanny Lye Deliver'd
2019 · Fanny Lye
Be Still My Beating Heart
2019
Judy
2019 · Judy
Peterloo
2018 · Nellie
The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca
2018 · Self, Producer, Director
Gwen
2018 · Elen
Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels
2018 · Friedrich Engels (voice)
Funny Cow
2018 · Funny Cow, Executive Producer
Wonders of the Moon
2018 · Narrator (voice)
The Priest
2017 · Writer
Men Who Sleep in Cars
2017 · Sarah
Cake
2017
Unseen
2017 · Emma
Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle
2017 · Narrator
Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods
2017 · Self (archive footage)
Generation '66
2016 · Narrator
A Midsummer Night's Dream
2016 · Titania
Red Top
2016 · Rebekah Brooks
I Wish For You
2016 · Grown Up Mia
The Falling
2015 · Eileen Lamont
Hamlet
2015 · Hamlet
Strange Weather
2015 · Jane
The Shuttleworths
2015 · Helen Bach
The Theory of Everything
2014 · Elaine Mason
Keeping Rosy
2014 · Charlotte
Run & Jump
2014 · Vanetia
Keeping Up with the Joneses
2013 · Celia
Svengali
2013 · Angie
The Heart Fails Without Warning
2013 · Mother
Private Peaceful
2012 · Hazel Peaceful
Best Laid Plans
2012 · Isabel
DeafBlind
2011 · Maggie
Edge
2010 · Elly
Imaginary Friend
2010 · Pauline
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
2010 · Anne Lister
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
2009 · Helen Marshall
Clubbed
2008 · Angela
Hancock & Joan
2008 · Joan Le Mesurier
Bike Squad
2008 · WPC Kate McFay
Would Like To Meet
2007 · George's Mum
I Am Bob
2007 · Marilyn Monroe Lookalike/Compere's Assistant
Confessions of a Diary Secretary
2007 · Tracey Temple
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007 · Self
The Madness of the Dance
2006
The Fear of Trilogy
2006
Frozen
2005 · Ticket Attendant
Faith
2005 · Linda
Christmas Lights
2004 · Pauline
All or Nothing
2002 · Party girl
Hamilton Mattress
2002 · Lulu (voice)
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
2000 · Self
Girls' Night
1998 · Sharon
The Bright Side Running Club
Series (50)
Last Seen
2026 · Jenna Reid
Bait
2026 · Helen
The Haunted Season
2024 · The Englishwoman (voice)
Say Nothing
2024 · Older Dolours Price
Secret Life of the Safari Park
2024 · Narrator
Art That Made Us
2022 · Self - Actrice (Rules of the Game, Anne)
Rules of the Game
2022 · Sam Thompson
Anne
2022 · Anne Williams
Star Wars: Visions
2021 · Kalina Kalfus (voice)
Mandy
2020 · Susan Blower
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
2020 · Miss Fozzard
The Bisexual
2018 · Sadie
Dinnerladies Diaries
2018 · Self
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
2018 · Self - Guest
Three Girls
2017 · Sara Rowbotham
We Have Been Watching
2017 · Self
Artsnight
2015 · Self - Presenter
Inside No. 9
2014 · Nadia
The Village
2013 · Grace Middleton
Room at the Top
2012 · Alice Aisgill
The Hollow Crown
2012 · Doll Tearsheet
Black Mirror
2011 · Bella
Silk
2011 · Martha Costello QC
Red Riding
2009
The Devil's Whore
2008 · Elizabeth Lilburne
Little Dorrit
2008 · Miss Wade
Criminal Justice
2008 · Juliet Miller
Fairy Tales
2008 · Cindy Mellor
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
2007 · Self
The Graham Norton Show
2007 · Self
The One Show
2006 · Self - Guest
See No Evil: The Moors Murders
2006 · Myra Hindley
The Street
2006
Shameless
2004 · Veronica Fisher
Comedy Connections
2003
Early Doors
2003 · Janice
Timeshift
2002 · Self - Narrator
Linda Green
2001 · Receptionist
Messiah
2001 · DS Vickie Clarke
Clocking Off
2000 · Marie Leach
At Home with the Braithwaites
2000 · Trixie Fletcher
Sunburn
1999 · Sue
dinnerladies
1998 · Twinkle
Jonathan Creek
1997 · Marion Cretiss
Dalziel and Pascoe
1996 · Dr Allison Laurie
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
1996 · Photocopy Assistant
ChuckleVision
1987
The South Bank Show
1978
First Day on Earth
· Helen
The Unheard