Maxine Peake

Maxine Peake

Acting

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…

Filmography

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Last Seen Last Seen 2026 Bait ★ 6.7 Bait 2026 Becoming Victoria Wood ★ 6.0 Becoming Victoria Wood 2026 Laundreams Laundreams 2025 The Occupant of the Room The Occupant of the Room 2025 Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough ★ 7.0 Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough 2025 I Swear ★ 8.3 I Swear 2025 Quiet on Set: The Class Division in the Film Industry? Quiet on Set: The Class Division in the Film Industry? 2025 Words of War ★ 6.7 Words of War 2025 The Haunted Season The Haunted Season 2024 Say Nothing ★ 7.4 Say Nothing 2024 Art Matters ★ 10.0 Art Matters 2024 Woken ★ 5.4 Woken 2024 Secret Life of the Safari Park Secret Life of the Safari Park 2024 Tish ★ 9.0 Tish 2023 Dance First ★ 6.9 Dance First 2023 Choked Up ★ 7.0 Choked Up 2023 Wendell & Wild ★ 6.6 Wendell & Wild 2022 Inner Polar Bear Inner Polar Bear 2022 Lapushka! Lapushka! 2022 Something Out of Nothing Something Out of Nothing 2022 Art That Made Us ★ 5.5 Art That Made Us 2022 Rules of the Game ★ 6.2 Rules of the Game 2022 The Real Anne: Unfinished Business The Real Anne: Unfinished Business 2022 Anne ★ 7.1 Anne 2022 Where We Used to Meet Where We Used to Meet 2021 Star Wars: Visions ★ 7.1 Star Wars: Visions 2021 Mandy ★ 7.6 Mandy 2020 Alan Bennett's Talking Heads ★ 7.6 Alan Bennett's Talking Heads 2020 Surfaces Surfaces 2020 The Great Mountain Sheep Gather The Great Mountain Sheep Gather 2020 It's Me It's Me 2020 Fanny Lye Deliver'd ★ 6.3 Fanny Lye Deliver'd 2019 Be Still My Beating Heart ★ 1.0 Be Still My Beating Heart 2019 Judy Judy 2019 Peterloo ★ 6.8 Peterloo 2018 The Bisexual ★ 6.4 The Bisexual 2018 The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca 2018 Gwen ★ 5.4 Gwen 2018 Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels ★ 0.5 Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels 2018 Funny Cow ★ 6.3 Funny Cow 2018 Dinnerladies Diaries ★ 9.0 Dinnerladies Diaries 2018 The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer ★ 7.1 The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer 2018 Wonders of the Moon ★ 6.6 Wonders of the Moon 2018 The Priest The Priest 2017 Men Who Sleep in Cars Men Who Sleep in Cars 2017 Cake ★ 5.3 Cake 2017 Unseen Unseen 2017 Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle ★ 4.0 Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle 2017 Three Girls ★ 7.3 Three Girls 2017 Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods ★ 7.2 Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods 2017 We Have Been Watching We Have Been Watching 2017 Generation '66 ★ 7.0 Generation '66 2016 A Midsummer Night's Dream ★ 5.4 A Midsummer Night's Dream 2016 Red Top ★ 5.3 Red Top 2016 I Wish For You I Wish For You 2016 The Falling ★ 5.1 The Falling 2015 Hamlet ★ 8.2 Hamlet 2015 Artsnight Artsnight 2015 Strange Weather Strange Weather 2015 The Shuttleworths The Shuttleworths 2015 The Theory of Everything ★ 7.8 The Theory of Everything 2014 Keeping Rosy ★ 5.4 Keeping Rosy 2014 Inside No. 9 ★ 8.1 Inside No. 9 2014 Run & Jump ★ 5.9 Run & Jump 2014 Keeping Up with the Joneses ★ 5.9 Keeping Up with the Joneses 2013 Svengali ★ 5.3 Svengali 2013 The Village ★ 7.2 The Village 2013 The Heart Fails Without Warning The Heart Fails Without Warning 2013 Private Peaceful ★ 6.6 Private Peaceful 2012 Room at the Top ★ 6.9 Room at the Top 2012 The Hollow Crown ★ 7.5 The Hollow Crown 2012 Best Laid Plans ★ 5.5 Best Laid Plans 2012 DeafBlind DeafBlind 2011 Black Mirror ★ 8.3 Black Mirror 2011 Silk ★ 7.5 Silk 2011 Edge ★ 6.0 Edge 2010 Imaginary Friend ★ 8.0 Imaginary Friend 2010 The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister ★ 6.5 The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister 2010 Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980 ★ 6.9 Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980 2009