Maxine Peake
Maxine Peake (born 14 July 1974) is an English stage, radio, film and television actress, playwright 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.
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Filmography
| Movie | I Swear | 2026 | |
| Movie | Woken | Helen | 2024-07-04 |
| Movie | Dance First | Barbara | 2023-11-03 |
| Series | Anne | Anne Williams | 2022-01-02 |
| Movie | The Real Anne: Unfinished Business | Self- Presenter | 2022-01-06 |
| Movie | Wendell & Wild | Irmgard Klaxon (voice) | 2022-10-21 |
| Series | Rules of the Game | Sam Thompson | 2022-01-11 |
| Movie | Lapushka! | Scoot Piccolo | 2022-08-04 |
| Movie | It's Me | Miriam | 2020-01-02 |
| Movie | Fanny Lye Deliver'd | Fanny Lye | 2019-10-10 |
| Movie | Judy | Judy | 2019-01-01 |
| Movie | The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca | Herself | 2018-09-02 |
| Movie | Funny Cow | Funny Cow | 2018-04-20 |
| Series | The Bisexual | Sadie | 2018-10-10 |
| Movie | Peterloo | Nellie | 2018-11-01 |
| Series | We Have Been Watching | Self | 2017-01-04 |
| Series | Three Girls | Sara Rowbotham | 2017-05-16 |
| Movie | Men Who Sleep in Cars | Sarah | 2017-10-01 |
| Movie | Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods | Self (archive footage) | 2017-04-21 |
| Movie | Red Top | Rebekah Brooks | 2016-01-20 |
| Movie | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Titania | 2016-05-30 |
| Movie | The Falling | Eileen Lamont | 2015-04-24 |
| Movie | Hamlet | Hamlet | 2015-03-23 |
| Movie | Run & Jump | Vanetia | 2014-01-24 |
| Movie | Keeping Rosy | Charlotte | 2014-06-08 |
| Movie | The Theory of Everything | Elaine Mason | 2014-11-26 |
| Series | The Village | Grace Middleton | 2013-03-31 |
| Movie | The Heart Fails Without Warning | Mother | 2013-01-01 |
| Movie | Keeping Up with the Joneses | Celia | 2013-10-18 |
| Movie | Svengali | Angie | 2013-06-19 |
| Movie | Best Laid Plans | Isabel | 2012-02-03 |
| Series | Room at the Top | Alice Aisgill | 2012-09-26 |
| Movie | Private Peaceful | Hazel Peaceful | 2012-10-12 |
| Series | Silk | Martha Costello | 2011-02-22 |
| Movie | DeafBlind | Maggie | 2011-12-31 |
| Movie | Edge | Elly | 2010-10-23 |
| Movie | The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister | Anne Lister | 2010-03-01 |
| Movie | Imaginary Friend | Pauline | 2010-05-08 |
| Movie | Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980 | Helen Marshall | 2009-02-28 |
| Series | Criminal Justice | Juliet Miller | 2008-06-30 |
| Movie | Hancock & Joan | Joan Le Mesurier | 2008-03-26 |
| Movie | Clubbed | Angela | 2008-10-02 |
| Series | The Devil's Whore | Elizabeth Lilburne | 2008-11-19 |
| Series | Little Dorrit | Miss Wade | 2008-10-26 |
| Movie | The 50 Greatest Television Dramas | Self | 2007-02-03 |
| Movie | I Am Bob | Marilyn Monroe Lookalike/Compere's Assistant | 2007-04-26 |
| Movie | Confessions of a Diary Secretary | Tracey Temple | 2007-02-28 |
| Movie | Would Like To Meet | George's Mum | 2007-07-31 |
| Series | See No Evil: The Moors Murders | Myra Hindley | 2006-05-14 |
| Movie | Faith | Linda | 2005-02-28 |
| Movie | Frozen | Ticket Attendant | 2005-03-12 |
| Movie | Christmas Lights | Pauline | 2004-12-20 |
| Series | Early Doors | 2003-05-12 | |
| Movie | Hamilton Mattress | Lulu (voice) | 2002-01-01 |
| Movie | All or Nothing | Party girl | 2002-05-17 |
| Movie | Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings | Self | 2000-12-25 |
| Series | dinnerladies | Twinkle | 1998-11-12 |
| Movie | Girls' Night | Sharon | 1998-06-26 |