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.
73 movies · 44 shows
Becoming Victoria Wood
2026·6.0
Laundreams
2025·0.0
The Occupant of the Room
2025·0.0
Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough
2025·7.0
I Swear
2025·8.2
Quiet on Set: The Class Division in the Film Industry?
2025·0.0
Words of War
2025·6.7
Art Matters
2024·10.0
Woken
2024·5.4
Tish
2023·9.0
Dance First
2023·6.9
Choked Up
2023·7.5
Wendell & Wild
2022·6.6
Inner Polar Bear
2022·0.0
Lapushka!
2022·0.0
Something Out of Nothing
2022·0.0
The Real Anne: Unfinished Business
2022·0.0
Where We Used to Meet
2021·0.0
Surfaces
2020·0.0
The Great Mountain Sheep Gather
2020·0.0
It's Me
2020·0.0
Fanny Lye Deliver'd
2019·6.3
Be Still My Beating Heart
2019·1.0
Judy
2019·0.0
Peterloo
2018·6.8
The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca
2018·0.0
Gwen
2018·5.5
Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels
2018·0.5
Funny Cow
2018·6.3
Wonders of the Moon
2018·6.6
The Priest
2017·0.0
Men Who Sleep in Cars
2017·0.0
Cake
2017·5.3
Unseen
2017·0.0
Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle
2017·4.0
Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods
2017·7.2
Generation '66
2016·7.0
A Midsummer Night's Dream
2016·5.4
Red Top
2016·5.3
I Wish For You
2016·0.0
The Falling
2015·5.1
Hamlet
2015·8.2
Strange Weather
2015·0.0
The Shuttleworths
2015·0.0
The Theory of Everything
2014·7.8
Keeping Rosy
2014·5.4
Run & Jump
2014·5.9
Keeping Up with the Joneses
2013·5.9
Svengali
2013·5.4
The Heart Fails Without Warning
2013·0.0
Private Peaceful
2012·6.6
Best Laid Plans
2012·5.5
DeafBlind
2011·0.0
Edge
2010·6.0
Imaginary Friend
2010·8.0
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
2010·6.5
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
2009·6.9
Clubbed
2008·6.7
Hancock & Joan
2008·4.1
Bike Squad
2008·0.0
Would Like To Meet
2007·10.0
I Am Bob
2007·7.5
Confessions of a Diary Secretary
2007·0.0
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007·0.0
The Madness of the Dance
2006·6.5
The Fear of Trilogy
2006·0.0
Frozen
2005·5.9
Faith
2005·9.0
Christmas Lights
2004·5.6
All or Nothing
2002·7.1
Hamilton Mattress
2002·6.8
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
2000·7.0
Girls' Night
1998·6.8