Maxine Peake

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

116

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

  • The Graham Norton Show

    The Graham Norton Show

  • Black Mirror

    Black Mirror

  • Shameless

    Shameless

  • Shameless

    Shameless

  • Inside No. 9

    Inside No. 9

  • Star Wars: Visions

    Star Wars: Visions

  • The Alan Titchmarsh Show

    The Alan Titchmarsh Show

  • Jonathan Creek

    Jonathan Creek

  • I Swear

    I Swear

  • Dalziel & Pascoe

    Dalziel & Pascoe

  • Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

    Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

  • The Hollow Crown

    The Hollow Crown

  • ChuckleVision

    ChuckleVision

  • Mandy

    Mandy

  • The Theory of Everything

    The Theory of Everything

  • Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980

    Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980

  • Timeshift

    Timeshift

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

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

  • Silk

    Silk

  • Fanny Lye Deliver'd

    Fanny Lye Deliver'd

  • Say Nothing

    Say Nothing

  • Little Dorrit

    Little Dorrit

  • Clocking Off

    Clocking Off

  • Edge

    Edge

  • Lapushka!

    Lapushka!

  • Wendell & Wild

    Wendell & Wild

  • The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer

    The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer

  • The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca

    The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca

  • The Falling

    The Falling

  • Best Laid Plans

    Best Laid Plans

  • The Street

    The Street

  • Words of War

    Words of War

  • Messiah

    Messiah

  • The Village

    The Village

  • Hamlet

    Hamlet

  • Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough

    Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough

  • Gwen

    Gwen

  • The Devil's Whore

    The Devil's Whore

  • Peterloo

    Peterloo

  • dinnerladies

    dinnerladies

  • Keeping Up with the Joneses

    Keeping Up with the Joneses

  • Generation '66

    Generation '66

  • Alan Bennett's Talking Heads

    Alan Bennett's Talking Heads

  • The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister

    The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister

  • Three Girls

    Three Girls

  • The Madness of the Dance

    The Madness of the Dance

  • Criminal Justice

    Criminal Justice

  • Svengali

    Svengali

  • I Am Bob

    I Am Bob

  • Hamilton Mattress

    Hamilton Mattress

  • Comedy Connections

    Comedy Connections

  • Judy

    Judy

  • Clubbed

    Clubbed

  • Frozen

    Frozen

  • Private Peaceful

    Private Peaceful

  • Early Doors

    Early Doors

  • Hancock & Joan

    Hancock & Joan

  • Christmas Lights

    Christmas Lights

  • Art That Made Us

    Art That Made Us

  • Red Riding

    Red Riding

  • Sunburn

    Sunburn

  • Linda Green

    Linda Green

  • Something Out of Nothing

    Something Out of Nothing

  • Dance First

    Dance First

  • Fairy Tales

    Fairy Tales

  • Choked Up

    Choked Up

  • The Bisexual

    The Bisexual

  • Anne

    Anne

  • Confessions of a Diary Secretary

    Confessions of a Diary Secretary

  • We Have Been Watching

    We Have Been Watching

  • Inner Polar Bear

    Inner Polar Bear

  • Strange Weather

    Strange Weather

  • Woken

    Woken

  • Cake

    Cake

  • All or Nothing

    All or Nothing

  • A Midsummer Night's Dream

    A Midsummer Night's Dream

  • Bike Squad

    Bike Squad

  • Art Matters

    Art Matters

  • Room at the Top

    Room at the Top

  • Artsnight

    Artsnight

  • Faith

    Faith

  • Imaginary Friend

    Imaginary Friend

  • Rules of the Game

    Rules of the Game

  • Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings

    Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings

  • The 50 Greatest Television Dramas

    The 50 Greatest Television Dramas

  • Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels

    Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels

  • Funny Cow

    Funny Cow

  • Unseen

    Unseen

  • Dinnerladies Diaries

    Dinnerladies Diaries

  • Girls' Night

    Girls' Night

  • Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods

    Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods

  • The Dispatcher

    The Dispatcher

  • Tish

    Tish

  • I Wish For You

    I Wish For You

  • Secret Life of the Safari Park

    Secret Life of the Safari Park

  • Men Who Sleep in Cars

    Men Who Sleep in Cars

  • DeafBlind

    DeafBlind

  • The Priest

    The Priest

  • The Great Mountain Sheep Gather

    The Great Mountain Sheep Gather

  • Red Top

    Red Top

  • Run & Jump

    Run & Jump

  • Surfaces

    Surfaces

  • Twisting My Melon

    Twisting My Melon

  • Be Still My Beating Heart

    Be Still My Beating Heart

  • Would Like To Meet

    Would Like To Meet

  • Keeping Rosy

    Keeping Rosy

  • See No Evil: The Moors Murders

    See No Evil: The Moors Murders

  • Wonders of the Moon

    Wonders of the Moon

  • It's Me

    It's Me

  • The Shuttleworths

    The Shuttleworths

  • The Occupant of the Room

    The Occupant of the Room

  • The Real Anne: Unfinished Business

    The Real Anne: Unfinished Business

  • The Heart Fails Without Warning

    The Heart Fails Without Warning

  • Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle

    Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle

  • The Fear of Trilogy

    The Fear of Trilogy

  • Where We Used to Meet

    Where We Used to Meet