Maxine Peake

Known for ActingBorn 1974-07-14 (age 52)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.Read more

Movies & web series

Art Matters

Would Like To Meet

Tish

Dinnerladies Diaries

Faith

I Swear

Black Mirror

Hamlet

Inside No. 9

Imaginary Friend

Little Dorrit

The Theory of Everything

Last Seen

Early Doors

Alan Bennett's Talking Heads

Say Nothing

Choked Up

Mandy

Criminal Justice

The Street

Silk

Clocking Off

I Am Bob

Jonathan Creek

Shameless

The Hollow Crown

dinnerladies

Three Girls

The Village

Messiah

Linda Green

Doughnut

Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods

Star Wars: Visions

Red Riding

The Graham Norton Show

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough

Anne

Incompatible

The Great Mountain Sheep Gather

The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer

Generation '66

All or Nothing

Words of War

Timeshift

Room at the Top

Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings