Maxine Peake
Acting
Born: 1974-07-14 in Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, UK
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.
Known For
The Graham Norton Show
Self
Last Seen
Jenna Reid
Black Mirror
Bella
Shameless
Veronica Fisher
The One Show
Self - Guest
I Swear
Dottie
Silk
Martha Costello QC
Star Wars: Visions
Kalina Kalfus (voice)
Inside No. 9
Nadia
ChuckleVision
Dalziel and Pascoe
Dr Allison Laurie
Jonathan Creek
Marion Cretiss
Bait
Helen
Timeshift
Self - Narrator
Say Nothing
Older Dolours Price
The Hollow Crown
Doll Tearsheet
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
Photocopy Assistant
The Theory of Everything
Elaine Mason
The Village
Grace Middleton
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
Self - Guest
Clocking Off
Marie Leach
Little Dorrit
Miss Wade
Mandy
Susan Blower
Comedy Connections
At Home with the Braithwaites
Trixie Fletcher
Criminal Justice
Juliet Miller
Wendell & Wild
Irmgard Klaxon (voice)
The Street
Three Girls
Sara Rowbotham
Red Riding
dinnerladies
Twinkle
Words of War
Anna Politkovskaya
The Bisexual
Sadie
Anne
Anne Williams
The Devil's Whore
Elizabeth Lilburne
Messiah
DS Vickie Clarke
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
Helen Marshall
Rules of the Game
Sam Thompson