Maxine Peake

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

117

Gender

Female

Birthday

1974-07-14 (51 years old)

Place of Birth

Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, UK

Maxine Peake

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.

Known For

  • Black Mirror

    Black Mirror

  • The Graham Norton Show

    The Graham Norton Show

  • The One Show

    The One Show

  • Shameless

    Shameless

  • Star Wars: Visions

    Star Wars: Visions

  • I Swear

    I Swear

  • Inside No. 9

    Inside No. 9

  • The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer

    The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer

  • Jonathan Creek

    Jonathan Creek

  • The Alan Titchmarsh Show

    The Alan Titchmarsh Show

  • Dalziel & Pascoe

    Dalziel & Pascoe

  • ChuckleVision

    ChuckleVision

  • The Theory of Everything

    The Theory of Everything

  • The Hollow Crown

    The Hollow Crown

  • Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

    Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

  • Silk

    Silk

  • Dance First

    Dance First

  • Private Peaceful

    Private Peaceful

  • Say Nothing

    Say Nothing

  • Svengali

    Svengali

  • The Falling

    The Falling

  • Words of War

    Words of War

  • Gwen

    Gwen

  • Hamlet

    Hamlet

  • Timeshift

    Timeshift

  • Bike Squad

    Bike Squad

  • Art Matters

    Art Matters

  • Christmas Lights

    Christmas Lights

  • Mandy

    Mandy

  • Hamilton Mattress

    Hamilton Mattress

  • Hancock & Joan

    Hancock & Joan

  • Little Dorrit

    Little Dorrit

  • Clubbed

    Clubbed

  • Cake

    Cake

  • The Street

    The Street

  • Choked Up

    Choked Up

  • Strange Weather

    Strange Weather

  • Woken

    Woken

  • Clocking Off

    Clocking Off

  • Wendell & Wild

    Wendell & Wild

  • The Village

    The Village

  • Criminal Justice

    Criminal Justice

  • Frozen

    Frozen

  • The Devil's Whore

    The Devil's Whore

  • Imaginary Friend

    Imaginary Friend

  • Peterloo

    Peterloo

  • Lapushka!

    Lapushka!

  • Anne

    Anne

  • Funny Cow

    Funny Cow

  • Best Laid Plans

    Best Laid Plans

  • Three Girls

    Three Girls

  • Messiah

    Messiah

  • Judy

    Judy

  • dinnerladies

    dinnerladies

  • Fanny Lye Deliver'd

    Fanny Lye Deliver'd

  • Early Doors

    Early Doors

  • Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings

    Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings

  • Red Riding

    Red Riding

  • Comedy Connections

    Comedy Connections

  • Faith

    Faith

  • The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister

    The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister

  • Red Top

    Red Top

  • DeafBlind

    DeafBlind

  • A Midsummer Night's Dream

    A Midsummer Night's Dream

  • All or Nothing

    All or Nothing

  • Confessions of a Diary Secretary

    Confessions of a Diary Secretary

  • Keeping Up with the Joneses

    Keeping Up with the Joneses

  • Rules of the Game

    Rules of the Game

  • The Bisexual

    The Bisexual

  • Girls' Night

    Girls' Night

  • Alan Bennett's Talking Heads

    Alan Bennett's Talking Heads

  • Unseen

    Unseen

  • Linda Green

    Linda Green

  • Room at the Top

    Room at the Top

  • I Am Bob

    I Am Bob

  • The Madness of the Dance

    The Madness of the Dance

  • Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980

    Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980

  • Art That Made Us

    Art That Made Us

  • Sunburn

    Sunburn

  • Something Out of Nothing

    Something Out of Nothing

  • Fairy Tales

    Fairy Tales

  • Artsnight

    Artsnight

  • Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels

    Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels

  • Dinnerladies Diaries

    Dinnerladies Diaries

  • Run & Jump

    Run & Jump

  • The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca

    The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca

  • Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods

    Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods

  • Men Who Sleep in Cars

    Men Who Sleep in Cars

  • Becoming Victoria Wood

    Becoming Victoria Wood

  • It's Me

    It's Me

  • Inner Polar Bear

    Inner Polar Bear

  • Generation '66

    Generation '66

  • We Have Been Watching

    We Have Been Watching

  • I Wish For You

    I Wish For You

  • The Dispatcher

    The Dispatcher

  • The 50 Greatest Television Dramas

    The 50 Greatest Television Dramas

  • Keeping Rosy

    Keeping Rosy

  • Would Like To Meet

    Would Like To Meet

  • Edge

    Edge

  • Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough

    Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough

  • Secret Life of the Safari Park

    Secret Life of the Safari Park

  • Tish

    Tish

  • Twisting My Melon

    Twisting My Melon

  • Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle

    Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle

  • Wonders of the Moon

    Wonders of the Moon

  • Be Still My Beating Heart

    Be Still My Beating Heart

  • The Priest

    The Priest

  • The Heart Fails Without Warning

    The Heart Fails Without Warning

  • The Occupant of the Room

    The Occupant of the Room

  • See No Evil: The Moors Murders

    See No Evil: The Moors Murders

  • The Real Anne: Unfinished Business

    The Real Anne: Unfinished Business

  • Surfaces

    Surfaces

  • The Fear of Trilogy

    The Fear of Trilogy

  • The Shuttleworths

    The Shuttleworths

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

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

  • The Great Mountain Sheep Gather

    The Great Mountain Sheep Gather

  • Where We Used to Meet

    Where We Used to Meet