Maxine Peake
Age: N/A | From: Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, UK
Person Details
Birthday:
Aliases: No known aliases
Gender: Female
Place of birth: Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, UK
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Movie Involvements: 49
TV Involvements: 22
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
Black Mirror
(2011) Bella
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
(1996) Photocopy Assistant
The Hollow Crown
(2012) Doll Tearsheet
Clocking Off
(2000) Marie Leach
Star Wars: Visions
(2021) Kalina Kalfus (voice)
Timeshift
(2002) Self - Narrator
Messiah
(2001) DS Vickie Clarke
Silk
(2011) Martha CostelloActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Helen | |
| Party Guest | ||
| Narrator | ||
| 2023 | Tish Murtha (voice) | |
| Barbara | ||
| Fiona Lacey | ||
| 2022 | Irmgard Klaxon (voice) | |
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| Scoot Piccolo | ||
| N/A | ||
| Self - Actrice (Rules of the Game, Anne) | ||
| Sam Thompson | ||
| Self- Presenter | ||
| Anne Williams | ||
| 2021 | N/A | |
| Kalina Kalfus (voice) | ||
| Fanny Lye | ||
| 2020 | Miss Fozzard | |
| Alix | ||
| Self - Narrator | ||
| Nadia | ||
| Miriam | ||
| 2019 | N/A | |
| Judy | ||
| 2018 | Nellie | |
| Sadie | ||
| Herself | ||
| Elen | ||
| Friedrich Engels (voice) | ||
| Funny Cow | ||
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| 2017 | N/A | |
| Sarah | ||
| N/A | ||
| Emma | ||
| Narrator | ||
| Sara Rowbotham | ||
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| Self | ||
| 2016 | Narrator | |
| Titania | ||
| Rebekah Brooks | ||
| Grown Up Mia | ||
| 2015 | Eileen Lamont | |
| Hamlet | ||
| Self - Presenter | ||
| Jane | ||
| Helen Bach | ||
| 2014 | Elaine Mason | |
| Charlotte | ||
| Nadia | ||
| Vanetia | ||
| 2013 | Celia | |
| Angie | ||
| Grace Middleton | ||
| Mother | ||
| 2012 | Hazel Peaceful | |
| Alice Aisgill | ||
| Doll Tearsheet | ||
| Isabel | ||
| 2011 | Maggie | |
| Bella | ||
| Martha Costello | ||
| 2010 | Elly | |
| Pauline | ||
| Anne Lister | ||
| 2009 | N/A | |
| Helen Marshall | ||
| 2008 | Elizabeth Lilburne | |
| Miss Wade | ||
| Angela | ||
| Juliet Miller | ||
| Joan Le Mesurier | ||
| N/A | ||
| WPC Kate McFay | ||
| 2007 | Self | |
| George's Mum | ||
| Marilyn Monroe Lookalike/Compere's Assistant | ||
| Tracey Temple | ||
| Self | ||
| Self | ||
| 2006 | Myra Hindley | |
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| 2005 | Ticket Attendant | |
| Linda | ||
| 2004 | Pauline | |
| N/A | ||
| Veronica Fisher | ||
| 2003 | N/A | |
| Janice | ||
| 2002 | Self - Narrator | |
| Party girl | ||
| Lulu (voice) | ||
| 2001 | Receptionist | |
| DS Vickie Clarke | ||
| 2000 | N/A | |
| Marie Leach | ||
| 1999 | Sue | |
| 1998 | Twinkle | |
| Sharon | ||
| 1997 | Marion Cretiss | |
| 1996 | N/A | |
| Photocopy Assistant | ||
| 1987 | N/A | |
| Linda Ryder | ||
| Older Dolours Price | ||
| Anna Politkovskaya | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Directing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Director | |
| 2018 | Director | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Crew
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Thanks | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Production
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Producer | |
| Executive Producer | ||
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Writing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Writer | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |