Maxine Peake
Actor
Biography
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.
As Director
Filmography
The Theory of Everything
as Elaine Mason 2014
Wendell & Wild
as Irmgard Klaxon (voice) 2022
The Falling
as Eileen Lamont 2015
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
as Helen Marshall 2009
All or Nothing
as Party girl 2002
Peterloo
as Nellie 2018
Clubbed
as Angela 2008
Gwen
as Elen 2018
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
as Anne Lister 2010
Fanny Lye Deliver'd
as Fanny Lye 2019
I Swear
as Dottie Achenbach 2025
Private Peaceful
as Hazel Peaceful 2012
Funny Cow
as Funny Cow 2018
Svengali
as Angie 2013
Best Laid Plans
as Isabel 2012
Run & Jump
as Vanetia 2014
Dance First
as Barbara 2023