Maxine Peake
Birthday: 1974-07-14
Birthplace: Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, UK
Gender: Female
Owned By: Unowned
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.
Credits
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Words of War | Anna Politkovskaya | |
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I Swear | ||
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Twisting My Melon | Linda Ryder | |
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2024-07-04 | Woken | Helen |
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2023-11-17 | Tish | Tish Murtha (voice) |
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2023-11-03 | Dance First | Barbara |
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2023-03-28 | Choked Up | Fiona Lacey |
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2022-10-21 | Wendell & Wild | Irmgard Klaxon (voice) |
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2022-08-04 | Lapushka! | Scoot Piccolo |
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2022-05-29 | Something Out of Nothing | |
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2021-09-28 | Where We Used to Meet | |
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2020-06-03 | Surfaces | Alix |
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2020-01-02 | It's Me | Miriam |
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2019-10-10 | Fanny Lye Deliver'd | Fanny Lye |
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2019-10-06 | Be Still My Beating Heart | |
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2019-01-01 | Judy | Judy |
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2018-11-01 | Peterloo | Nellie |
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2018-07-12 | Gwen | Elen |
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2018-06-22 | Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels | Friedrich Engels (voice) |
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2018-04-20 | Funny Cow | Funny Cow |
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2017-12-11 | The Priest | |
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2017-10-01 | Men Who Sleep in Cars | Sarah |
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2017-09-29 | Cake | |
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2017-09-22 | Unseen | Emma |
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2016-05-30 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Titania |
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2016-01-20 | Red Top | Rebekah Brooks |
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2016-01-01 | I Wish For You | Grown Up Mia |
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2015-04-24 | The Falling | Eileen Lamont |
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2015-03-23 | Hamlet | Hamlet |
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2015-01-02 | Strange Weather | Jane |
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2015-01-01 | The Shuttleworths | Helen Bach |
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2014-11-26 | The Theory of Everything | Elaine Mason |
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2014-06-08 | Keeping Rosy | Charlotte |
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2014-01-24 | Run & Jump | Vanetia |
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2013-10-18 | Keeping Up with the Joneses | Celia |
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2013-06-19 | Svengali | Angie |
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2013-01-01 | The Heart Fails Without Warning | Mother |
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2012-10-12 | Private Peaceful | Hazel Peaceful |
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2012-02-03 | Best Laid Plans | Isabel |
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2011-12-31 | DeafBlind | Maggie |
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2010-10-23 | Edge | Elly |
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2010-05-08 | Imaginary Friend | Pauline |
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2010-03-01 | The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister | Anne Lister |
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2009-02-28 | Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980 | Helen Marshall |
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2008-10-02 | Clubbed | Angela |
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2008-03-26 | Hancock & Joan | Joan Le Mesurier |
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2008-01-04 | Bike Squad | WPC Kate McFay |
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2007-07-31 | Would Like To Meet | George's Mum |
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2007-04-26 | I Am Bob | Marilyn Monroe Lookalike/Compere's Assistant |
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2007-02-28 | Confessions of a Diary Secretary | Tracey Temple |
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2006-01-01 | The Madness of the Dance | |
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2006-01-01 | The Fear of Trilogy | |
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2005-03-12 | Frozen | Ticket Attendant |
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2005-02-28 | Faith | Linda |
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2004-12-20 | Christmas Lights | Pauline |
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2002-05-17 | All or Nothing | Party girl |
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2002-01-01 | Hamilton Mattress | Lulu (voice) |
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1998-06-26 | Girls' Night | Sharon |