Maxine Peake
Born in Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, UK — Jul 14 1974
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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 i…
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Black Mirror
Bella
Star Wars: Visions
Kalina Kalfus (voice)
Shameless
Veronica Fisher
Bait
Helen
Dalziel & Pascoe
Inside No. 9
Nadia
Silk
Martha Costello QC
I Swear
Dottie
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
Photocopy Assistant
Jonathan Creek
Marion Cretiss
The Hollow Crown
Doll Tearsheet
ChuckleVision
Mandy
Susan Blower
Little Dorrit
Miss Wade
The Street
Timeshift
Self - Narrator
dinnerladies
Twinkle
Messiah
DS Vickie Clarke
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
Self - Guest
Fairy Tales
Cindy Mellor
Clocking Off
Marie Leach
Red Riding
The Village
Grace Middleton
Say Nothing
Older Dolours Price
Three Girls
Sara Rowbotham
Criminal Justice
Juliet Miller
Early Doors
Janice
Art That Made Us
Self - Actrice (Rules of the Game, Anne)
Comedy Connections
The Theory of Everything
Elaine Mason
The Devil's Whore
Elizabeth Lilburne
The Bisexual
Sadie
Sunburn
Sue
Anne
Anne Williams
Artsnight
Self - Presenter
Room at the Top
Alice Aisgill
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
Miss Fozzard
Linda Green
Receptionist
Peterloo
Nellie
Wendell & Wild
Irmgard Klaxon (voice)
Rules of the Game
Sam Thompson
We Have Been Watching
Self
Words of War
Anna Politkovskaya
Funny Cow
Funny Cow
All or Nothing
Party girl
Frozen
Ticket Attendant
Private Peaceful
Hazel Peaceful
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
Self
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
Helen Marshall
Run & Jump
Vanetia
Faith
Linda
The Dispatcher
Clubbed
Angela
Girls' Night
Sharon
Woken
Helen
Dinnerladies Diaries
Self
I Am Bob
Marilyn Monroe Lookalike/Compere's Assistant
Dance First
Barbara
Red Top
Rebekah Brooks
Best Laid Plans
Isabel
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
Anne Lister
Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough
Narrator
Hamlet
Hamlet
Doughnut
Crew
Svengali
Angie
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
Self
The Falling
Eileen Lamont
Unseen
Emma
Hancock & Joan
Joan Le Mesurier
Fanny Lye Deliver'd
Fanny Lye
Generation '66
Narrator
Bike Squad
WPC Kate McFay
Keeping Rosy
Charlotte
Edge
Elly
Gwen
Elen
Secret Life of the Safari Park
Narrator
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Titania
Judy
Judy
Art Matters
Self
It's Me
Miriam
Cake
The Priest
Strange Weather
Jane
DeafBlind
Maggie
Lapushka!
Scoot Piccolo
Hamilton Mattress
Lulu (voice)
Incompatible
Directing
Tish
Tish Murtha (voice)
Christmas Lights
Pauline
Twisting My Melon
Linda Ryder
Confessions of a Diary Secretary
Tracey Temple
Surfaces
Alix
Keeping Up with the Joneses
Celia
Imaginary Friend
Pauline
First Day on Earth
Helen
Wonders of the Moon
Narrator (voice)
Would Like To Meet
George's Mum
Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods
Self (archive footage)
I Wish For You
Grown Up Mia
Becoming Victoria Wood
Self
The Madness of the Dance
Choked Up
Fiona Lacey
The Fear of Trilogy
The Occupant of the Room
The Englishwoman (voice)
Something Out of Nothing
The Real Anne: Unfinished Business
Self- Presenter
Inner Polar Bear
Narrator (voice)
Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Engels (voice)
The Heart Fails Without Warning
Mother
Quiet on Set: The Class Division in the Film Industry?
Self
Be Still My Beating Heart
Men Who Sleep in Cars
Sarah
The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca
Self
Where We Used to Meet
The Shuttleworths
Helen Bach
The Great Mountain Sheep Gather
Self - Narrator
See No Evil: The Moors Murders
Myra Hindley
Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle
Narrator
The Haunted Season
The Englishwoman (voice)