Maxine Peake
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
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
Self
Girls' Night
Sharon
Where We Used to Meet
Unknown
Dance First
Barbara
Words of War
Anna Politkovskaya
Clubbed
Angela
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
Anne Lister
The Real Anne: Unfinished Business
Self- Presenter
I Am Bob
Marilyn Monroe Lookalike/Compere's Assistant
Christmas Lights
Pauline
Tish
Tish Murtha (voice)
Wendell & Wild
Irmgard Klaxon (voice)
Edge
Elly
Woken
Helen
Svengali
Angie
Run & Jump
Vanetia
Hancock & Joan
Joan Le Mesurier
The Theory of Everything
Elaine Mason
Confessions of a Diary Secretary
Tracey Temple
Keeping Rosy
Charlotte
Something Out of Nothing
Unknown
Surfaces
Alix
It's Me
Miriam
Lapushka!
Scoot Piccolo
I Wish For You
Grown Up Mia
Strange Weather
Jane
Judy
Judy
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
Helen Marshall
The Falling
Eileen Lamont
Inner Polar Bear
Narrator (voice)
Hamlet
Hamlet
The Great Mountain Sheep Gather
Self - Narrator
The Madness of the Dance
Unknown
Generation '66
Narrator
Faith
Linda
Red Top
Rebekah Brooks
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
Self
Choked Up
Fiona Lacey
Private Peaceful
Hazel Peaceful
Bike Squad
WPC Kate McFay
All or Nothing
Party girl
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Titania
Hamilton Mattress
Lulu (voice)
Funny Cow
Funny Cow
Art Matters
Self
Keeping Up with the Joneses
Celia
Best Laid Plans
Isabel
Frozen
Ticket Attendant
I Swear
Dottie Achenbach
Fanny Lye Deliver'd
Fanny Lye
Imaginary Friend
Pauline
The Heart Fails Without Warning
Mother
Would Like To Meet
George's Mum
Peterloo
Nellie
Men Who Sleep in Cars
Sarah
Wonders of the Moon
Narrator (voice)
Cake
Unknown
DeafBlind
Maggie
Gwen
Elen
The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca
Herself
The Priest
Unknown
Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle
Narrator
The Fear of Trilogy
Unknown
The Shuttleworths
Helen Bach
Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods
Self (archive footage)
Twisting My Melon
Linda Ryder
Be Still My Beating Heart
Unknown
Unseen
Emma
Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Engels (voice)
Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough
Narrator
Quiet on Set: The Class Division in the Film Industry?
Self
The Occupant of the Room
Unknown
Becoming Victoria Wood
Self
