Personal Info
Maxine Peake
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 …
Known For
Filmography
Movies
Becoming Victoria Wood
as Self
I Swear
as Dottie
Words of War
as Anna Politkovskaya
Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough
as Narrator
Quiet on Set: The Class Division in the Film Industry?
as Self
The Occupant of the Room
as The Englishwoman (voice)
Woken
as Helen
Art Matters
as Self
Dance First
as Barbara
Tish
as Tish Murtha (voice)
TV Shows
Bait
as Helen · 2 ep.
Say Nothing
as Older Dolours Price · 9 ep.
Secret Life of the Safari Park
as Narrator · 6 ep.
The Haunted Season
as The Englishwoman (voice) · 1 ep.
Anne
as Anne Williams · 4 ep.
Art That Made Us
as Self - Actrice (Rules of the Game, Anne) · 2 ep.
Rules of the Game
as Sam Thompson · 4 ep.
Star Wars: Visions
as Kalina Kalfus (voice) · 1 ep.
Mandy
as Susan Blower · 1 ep.
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
as Miss Fozzard · 1 ep.
