Maxine Peake
female
Born on July 14, 1974 (50 years old)
From Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, UK
Known for Acting
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.
Cast Credits
- 2025
- 2024
- 2023
- 2022
The Real Anne: Unfinished Business
as
Self- Presenter
2022
Wendell & Wild
as
Irmgard Klaxon (voice)
2022
Something Out of Nothing
2022
Lapushka!
as
Scoot Piccolo
2022
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Inner Polar Bear
as
Narrator (voice)
2022
Rules of the Game
as
Sam Thompson
2022
Art That Made Us
as
Self - Actrice (Rules of the Game, Anne)
2022
Anne
as
Anne Williams
2022
- 2021
- 2020
- 2019
- 2018
Funny Cow
as
Funny Cow
2018
Peterloo
as
Nellie
2018
Wonders of the Moon
as
Narrator (voice)
2018
Gwen
as
Elen
2018
The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca
as
Herself
2018
Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels
as
Friedrich Engels (voice)
2018
The Bisexual
as
Sadie
2018
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
as
Self - Guest
2018
- 2017
- 2016
- 2015
- 2014
- 2013
- 2012
- 2010
- 2009
- 2008
- 2007
- 2006
- 2005
- 2004
- 2002
- 2000
- 1998
- 2011
- 2003
- 2001
- 1999
- 1997
- 1996
- 1987
