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.
Movies
The Occupant of the Room
Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough
Narrator
I Swear
Dottie Achenbach
Words of War
Anna Politkovskaya
Woken
Helen
Tish
Tish Murtha (voice)
Dance First
Barbara
Choked Up
Fiona Lacey
Wendell & Wild
Irmgard Klaxon (voice)
Inner Polar Bear
Narrator (voice)
Lapushka!
Scoot Piccolo
Something Out of Nothing
Where We Used to Meet
Surfaces
Alix
It's Me
Miriam
Fanny Lye Deliver'd
Fanny Lye
Be Still My Beating Heart
Judy
Judy
Peterloo
Nellie
Gwen
Elen
Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Engels (voice)
Funny Cow
Funny Cow
Wonders of the Moon
Narrator (voice)
The Priest
Men Who Sleep in Cars
Sarah
Cake
Unseen
Emma
Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle
Narrator
Generation '66
Narrator
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Titania
Red Top
Rebekah Brooks
I Wish For You
Grown Up Mia
The Falling
Eileen Lamont
Hamlet
Hamlet
Strange Weather
Jane
The Shuttleworths
Helen Bach
The Theory of Everything
Elaine Mason
Keeping Rosy
Charlotte
Run & Jump
Vanetia
Keeping Up with the Joneses
Celia
Svengali
Angie
The Heart Fails Without Warning
Mother
Private Peaceful
Hazel Peaceful
Best Laid Plans
Isabel
DeafBlind
Maggie
Edge
Elly
Imaginary Friend
Pauline
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
Anne Lister
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
Helen Marshall
Clubbed
Angela
Hancock & Joan
Joan Le Mesurier
Bike Squad
WPC Kate McFay
Would Like To Meet
George's Mum
I Am Bob
Marilyn Monroe Lookalike/Compere's Assistant
Confessions of a Diary Secretary
Tracey Temple
The Madness of the Dance
The Fear of Trilogy
Frozen
Ticket Attendant
Faith
Linda
Christmas Lights
Pauline
All or Nothing
Party girl
Hamilton Mattress
Lulu (voice)
Girls' Night
Sharon
Twisting My Melon
Linda Ryder
TV Series
Say Nothing
Older Dolours Price
9 Episodes
Secret Life of the Safari Park
Narrator
6 Episodes
Rules of the Game
Sam Thompson
4 Episodes
Anne
Anne Williams
4 Episodes
Star Wars: Visions
Kalina Kalfus (voice)
1 Episode
Mandy
Susan Blower
1 Episode
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
Miss Fozzard
1 Episode
The Bisexual
Sadie
6 Episodes
Three Girls
Sara Rowbotham
3 Episodes
Inside No. 9
Nadia
1 Episode
The Village
Grace Middleton
12 Episodes
Room at the Top
Alice Aisgill
2 Episodes
The Hollow Crown
Doll Tearsheet
2 Episodes
Black Mirror
Bella
1 Episode
Silk
Martha Costello
18 Episodes
Red Riding
1 Episode
The Devil's Whore
Elizabeth Lilburne
4 Episodes
Little Dorrit
Miss Wade
14 Episodes
Criminal Justice
Juliet Miller
5 Episodes
Fairy Tales
Cindy Mellor
1 Episode
See No Evil: The Moors Murders
Myra Hindley
2 Episodes
The Street
1 Episode
Shameless
Veronica Fisher
26 Episodes
Comedy Connections
1 Episode
Early Doors
Janice
6 Episodes
Linda Green
Receptionist
1 Episode
Messiah
DS Vickie Clarke
3 Episodes
Clocking Off
Marie Leach
1 Episode
Sunburn
Sue
1 Episode
dinnerladies
Twinkle
16 Episodes
Jonathan Creek
Marion Cretiss
1 Episode
Dalziel & Pascoe
1 Episode
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
Photocopy Assistant
1 Episode
ChuckleVision
1 Episode
The Dispatcher