Maxine Peake

Maxine Peake

b. 1974 (age 52) Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, UK

Actress Director Writer

Maxine Peake (born 14 July 1974) is an English stage, radio, film and television actress, playwright 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.

Known For

Messiah: The Harrowing

The Theory of Everything

The Theory of Everything

I Swear

Funny Cow

Filmography

I Swear

Words of War

Say Nothing

Dance First

Woken

Tish

The Haunted Season

The Haunted Season

Choked Up

Rules of the Game

Rules of the Game

Kelvin's Big Farming Adventure

Kelvin's Big Farming Adventure

The Real Anne: Unfinished Business

The Real Anne: Unfinished Business

Tom Parker: Inside My Head

Where We Used to Meet

Anne

Alan Bennett's Talking Heads

Alan Bennett's Talking Heads

The Great Mountain Sheep Gather

National Theatre Live: The Welkin

The Delivered

Be Still My Beating Heart

Gwen

Peterloo

The Bisexual

Wonders of the Moon

Wonders of the Moon

Dinnerladies Diaries

Dinnerladies Diaries

Generation Gifted

999 Rescue Squad

The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca

2018 Director Writer

Social Housing, Social Cleansing

Funny Cow

Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle

Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle

Cake

Our Friend Victoria

Our Friend Victoria

Men Who Sleep in Cars

Men Who Sleep in Cars

Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels

Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels

The Acting Class

Brexit Shorts: Shattered

2017 Director Writer

Hamlet

Billionaire's Paradise: Inside Necker Island

Billionaire's Paradise: Inside Necker Island

Strange Weather

The Tolpuddle Martyrs

My Psychic Life

The Falling

Keeping Rosy

The Village

Run & Jump

Svengali

Keeping Up with the Joneses

Keeping Up with the Joneses

The Heart Fails Without Warning

The Heart Fails Without Warning

How to Be Epic @ Everything

Private Peaceful

Private Peaceful

Best Laid Plans

Best Laid Plans

Room at the Top

Room at the Top

Silk

Jon Venables: What Went Wrong?

DeafBlind

Silk: Behind the Scenes

The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister

The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister

Edge

Imaginary Friend

Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980

Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980

Criminal Justice II: Peter Moffat Interviews

The Devil's Mistress

The Devil's Mistress

Criminal Justice

Criminal Justice

Hancock & Joan

Fairy Tales

Bike Squad

Confessions of a Diary Secretary

Would Like to Meet

See No Evil: The Moors Murders

See No Evil: The Moors Murders

The Madness of the Dance

Messiah: The Harrowing

Faith

Be Mine

Christmas Lights

Christmas Lights

Britain's Favourite Comedian

Hamilton Mattress

Hamilton Mattress

Dinnerladies

First Day on Earth

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