Maxine Peake

Known for ActingBorn 1974-07-14 (age 51)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

The Theory of Everything

Little Dorrit

Early Doors

Alan Bennett's Talking Heads

Mandy

Criminal Justice

The Street

Shameless

Say Nothing

Silk

Clocking Off

The Hollow Crown

I Am Bob

Jonathan Creek

Three Girls

dinnerladies

Doughnut

Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods

Messiah

Anne

Star Wars: Visions

The Village

The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

The Graham Norton Show

Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough

Choked Up

Linda Green

Generation '66

Dance First

All or Nothing

Timeshift

Room at the Top

Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings

Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980

Peterloo

Hamilton Mattress

Red Riding