Maxine Peake

Actor

Born: July 14, 1974 (age 52)
From: 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…

Filmography (76)

Becoming Victoria Wood (2026)
Self
Laundreams (2025)
The Occupant of the Room (2025)
The Englishwoman (voice)
Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough (2025)
Narrator
I Swear (2025)
Dottie
Quiet on Set: The Class Division in the Film Industry? (2025)
Self
Words of War (2025)
Anna Politkovskaya
Art Matters (2024)
Self
Woken (2024)
Helen
Tish (2023)
Tish Murtha (voice)
Dance First (2023)
Barbara
Choked Up (2023)
Fiona Lacey
Wendell & Wild (2022)
Irmgard Klaxon (voice)
Inner Polar Bear
Inner Polar Bear (2022)
Narrator (voice)
Lapushka! (2022)
Scoot Piccolo
Something Out of Nothing (2022)
Incompatible (2022)
Director
The Real Anne: Unfinished Business (2022)
Self- Presenter
Where We Used to Meet (2021)
Surfaces (2020)
Alix
The Great Mountain Sheep Gather (2020)
Self - Narrator
It's Me (2020)
Miriam
Fanny Lye Deliver'd (2019)
Fanny Lye
Be Still My Beating Heart
Be Still My Beating Heart (2019)
Judy (2019)
Judy
Peterloo (2018)
Nellie
The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca (2018)
Director
Gwen (2018)
Elen
Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels (2018)
Friedrich Engels (voice)
Funny Cow (2018)
Funny Cow