Biography
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.
Filmography48 titles
Tish
I Swear
Black Mirror
Hamlet
Inside No. 9
The Theory of Everything
Little Dorrit
Mandy
Criminal Justice
The Street
Shameless
The Hollow Crown
Silk
Jonathan Creek
Say Nothing
Three Girls
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods
The Village
The Graham Norton Show
Anne
Star Wars: Visions
All or Nothing
Dance First
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
The Devil's Mistress
Peterloo
Words of War
Clubbed
Wendell & Wild
Wonders of the Moon
Private Peaceful
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
See No Evil: The Moors Murders
Dalziel and Pascoe
The Bisexual
The Delivered
Funny Cow
Rules of the Game
Run & Jump
Christmas Lights
Best Laid Plans
Woken
Gwen
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Keeping Rosy
The Falling
The One Show