Acting
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.
Filmography
Becoming Victoria Wood
Film · 2026
Crackula
Film · 2026
Last Seen
Series · 2026
Bait
Series · 2026
Words of War
Film · 2025
I Swear
Film · 2025
Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough
Film · 2025
Quiet on Set: The Class Division in the Film Industry?
Film · 2025
The Occupant of the Room
Film · 2025
Laundreams
Film · 2025
Woken
Film · 2024
Art Matters
Film · 2024
Secret Life of the Safari Park
Series · 2024
Say Nothing
Series · 2024
The Haunted Season
Series · 2024
Dance First
Film · 2023
Tish
Film · 2023
Choked Up
Film · 2023
The Real Anne: Unfinished Business
Film · 2022
Wendell & Wild
Film · 2022
Something Out of Nothing
Film · 2022
Lapushka!
Film · 2022
Inner Polar Bear
Film · 2022
Rules of the Game
Series · 2022
Art That Made Us
Series · 2022
Anne
Series · 2022
Where We Used to Meet
Film · 2021
Star Wars: Visions
Series · 2021
Surfaces
Film · 2020
It's Me
Film · 2020
The Great Mountain Sheep Gather
Film · 2020
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
Series · 2020
Mandy
Series · 2020
Judy
Film · 2019
Fanny Lye Deliver'd
Film · 2019
Be Still My Beating Heart
Film · 2019
Funny Cow
Film · 2018
Peterloo
Film · 2018
Wonders of the Moon
Film · 2018
Gwen
Film · 2018
The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca
Film · 2018
Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels
Film · 2018
The Bisexual
Series · 2018
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
Series · 2018
Dinnerladies Diaries
Series · 2018
Men Who Sleep in Cars
Film · 2017
Cake
Film · 2017
The Priest
Film · 2017
Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle
Film · 2017
Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods
Film · 2017
Unseen
Film · 2017
We Have Been Watching
Series · 2017
Three Girls
Series · 2017
I Wish For You
Film · 2016
Generation '66
Film · 2016
Red Top
Film · 2016
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Film · 2016
Strange Weather
Film · 2015
The Falling
Film · 2015
Hamlet
Film · 2015
The Shuttleworths
Film · 2015
Artsnight
Series · 2015
Run & Jump
Film · 2014
The Theory of Everything
Film · 2014
Keeping Rosy
Film · 2014
Inside No. 9
Series · 2014
Svengali
Film · 2013
Keeping Up with the Joneses
Film · 2013
The Heart Fails Without Warning
Film · 2013
The Village
Series · 2013
Private Peaceful
Film · 2012
Best Laid Plans
Film · 2012
Room at the Top
Series · 2012
The Hollow Crown
Series · 2012
DeafBlind
Film · 2011
Black Mirror
Series · 2011
Silk
Series · 2011
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
Film · 2010
Edge
Film · 2010
Imaginary Friend
Film · 2010
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
Film · 2009
Red Riding
Series · 2009
Clubbed
Film · 2008
Hancock & Joan
Film · 2008
Bike Squad
Film · 2008
Criminal Justice
Series · 2008
Little Dorrit
Series · 2008
The Devil's Whore
Series · 2008
Fairy Tales
Series · 2008
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
Film · 2007
I Am Bob
Film · 2007
Confessions of a Diary Secretary
Film · 2007
Would Like To Meet
Film · 2007
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
Series · 2007
The Graham Norton Show
Series · 2007
The Madness of the Dance
Film · 2006
The Fear of Trilogy
Film · 2006
The Street
Series · 2006
See No Evil: The Moors Murders
Series · 2006
The One Show
Series · 2006
Faith
Film · 2005
Frozen
Film · 2005
Christmas Lights
Film · 2004
Shameless
Series · 2004
Early Doors
Series · 2003
Comedy Connections
Series · 2003
All or Nothing
Film · 2002
Hamilton Mattress
Film · 2002
Timeshift
Series · 2002
Messiah
Series · 2001
Linda Green
Series · 2001
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
Film · 2000
Clocking Off
Series · 2000
At Home with the Braithwaites
Series · 2000
Sunburn
Series · 1999
Girls' Night
Film · 1998
dinnerladies
Series · 1998
Jonathan Creek
Series · 1997
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
Series · 1996
Dalziel and Pascoe
Series · 1996
ChuckleVision
Series · 1987
The South Bank Show
Series · 1978
The Bright Side Running Club
Film
Obsession: The Beryl Burton Story
Film
First Day on Earth
Series
The Unheard
Series