Maxine Peake
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Maxine Peake

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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.

Films Featuring Maxine Peake

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas

2007

Girls' Night

19986.8

Where We Used to Meet

2021

Dance First

20236.9

Words of War

20256.7

Clubbed

20086.7

The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister

20106.5

The Real Anne: Unfinished Business

2022

I Am Bob

I Am Bob

20077.5

Christmas Lights

20045.6

Tish

20239.0

Wendell & Wild

20226.6

Edge

20106.0

Woken

20245.4

Svengali

20135.4

Run & Jump

20145.9

Hancock & Joan

20084.1

The Theory of Everything

20147.8

Confessions of a Diary Secretary

Confessions of a Diary Secretary

2007

Keeping Rosy

20145.4

Something Out of Nothing

2022

Surfaces

2020

It's Me

2020

Lapushka!

2022

I Wish For You

2016

Strange Weather

2015

Judy

2019

Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980

20096.9

The Falling

20155.1

Inner Polar Bear

Inner Polar Bear

2022

Hamlet

20158.2

The Great Mountain Sheep Gather

2020

The Madness of the Dance

The Madness of the Dance

20066.5

Generation '66

20167.0

Faith

20059.0

Red Top

20165.3

Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings

20007.0

Choked Up

20237.5

Private Peaceful

20126.6

Bike Squad

2008

All or Nothing

20027.1

A Midsummer Night's Dream

20165.4

Hamilton Mattress

20026.8

Funny Cow

20186.3

Art Matters

202410.0

Keeping Up with the Joneses

20135.9

Best Laid Plans

20125.5

Frozen

20055.9

I Swear

20258.2

Fanny Lye Deliver'd

20196.3

Imaginary Friend

Imaginary Friend

20108.0

The Heart Fails Without Warning

The Heart Fails Without Warning

2013

Would Like To Meet

Would Like To Meet

200710.0

Peterloo

20186.7

Men Who Sleep in Cars

2017

Wonders of the Moon

20186.6

Cake

20175.3

DeafBlind

2011

Gwen

20185.5

The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca

2018

The Priest

2017

Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle

20174.0

The Fear of Trilogy

2006

The Shuttleworths

2015

Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods

20177.2

Be Still My Beating Heart

Be Still My Beating Heart

20191.0

Unseen

2017

Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels

20180.5

Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough

20257.0

Quiet on Set: The Class Division in the Film Industry?

2025

The Occupant of the Room

2025

Becoming Victoria Wood

20266.0

The Bright Side Running Club

The Bright Side Running Club

Laundreams

2025