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 role in Mike Leigh's epic Peterloo, a film very close to her heart.
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Maxine Peake
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Filmography of
Maxine Peake
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The Englishwoman (voice)
... 2025
Narrator
... 2025
Dottie
... 2025
... 2025
Anna Politkovskaya
... 2025
Self
... 2024
Helen
... 2024
Tish Murtha (voice)
... 2023
Barbara
... 2023
Fiona Lacey
... 2023
Irmgard Klaxon (voice)
... 2022
Narrator (voice)
... 2022
Scoot Piccolo
... 2022
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Self- Presenter
... 2022
... 2021
Alix
... 2020
Self - Narrator
... 2020
Miriam
... 2020
Fanny Lye
... 2019
... 2019
Judy
... 2019
Nellie
... 2018
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Elen
... 2018
Friedrich Engels (voice)
... 2018
Funny Cow
... 2018
Narrator (voice)
... 2018
... 2017
Sarah
... 2017
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Emma
... 2017
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Self (archive footage)
... 2017
Narrator
... 2016
Titania
... 2016
Rebekah Brooks
... 2016
Grown Up Mia
... 2016
Eileen Lamont
... 2015
Hamlet
... 2015
Jane
... 2015
Helen Bach
... 2015
Elaine Mason
... 2014
Charlotte
... 2014
Vanetia
... 2014
... 2013
Angie
... 2013
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Hazel Peaceful
... 2012
Isabel
... 2012
Maggie
... 2011
Elly
... 2010
Pauline
... 2010
Anne Lister
... 2010
Helen Marshall
... 2009
Angela
... 2008
Joan Le Mesurier
... 2008
WPC Kate McFay
... 2008
George's Mum
... 2007
Marilyn Monroe Lookalike/Compere's Assistant
... 2007
Tracey Temple
... 2007
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Ticket Attendant
... 2005
Linda
... 2005
Pauline
... 2004
Party girl
... 2002
Lulu (voice)
... 2002
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Sharon
... 1998
Linda Ryder