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Maxine Peake

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Birthdate

1974-07-14 (Age: 52)

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.

Filmography (72)

⭐ 6.0 Role: Self

Becoming Victoria Wood

2026
⭐ 0 Role: The Englishwoman (voice)

The Occupant of the Room

2025
⭐ 7.0 Role: Narrator

Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough

2025
⭐ 8.2 Role: Dottie

I Swear

2025
⭐ 0 Role: Self

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

2025
⭐ 6.6 Role: Anna Politkovskaya

Words of War

2025
⭐ 10.0 Role: Self

Art Matters

2024
⭐ 5.3 Role: Helen

Woken

2024
⭐ 9.0 Role: Tish Murtha (voice)

Tish

2023
⭐ 6.9 Role: Barbara

Dance First

2023
⭐ 7.0 Role: Fiona Lacey

Choked Up

2023
⭐ 6.6 Role: Irmgard Klaxon (voice)

Wendell & Wild

2022
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⭐ 0 Role: Narrator (voice)

Inner Polar Bear

2022
⭐ 0 Role: Scoot Piccolo

Lapushka!

2022
⭐ 0 Role: Unknown

Something Out of Nothing

2022