Maxine Peake
Known for: Actress
Born: 14 July 1974 (age 52), Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, UK
Credits: 60+ titles
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
The Unheard
First Day on Earth
The Bright Side Running Club
Crackula
Last Seen
Bait
Laundreams
The Occupant of the Room
Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough
I Swear
Words of War
The Haunted Season
Say Nothing
Woken
Secret Life of the Safari Park
Tish
Dance First
Choked Up
Wendell & Wild
Inner Polar Bear
Lapushka!
Something Out of Nothing
Rules of the Game
Anne
Where We Used to Meet
Star Wars: Visions
Mandy
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
Surfaces
It's Me
Fanny Lye Deliver'd
Be Still My Beating Heart
Judy
Peterloo
The Bisexual
Gwen
Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels
Funny Cow
Wonders of the Moon
The Priest
Men Who Sleep in Cars
Cake
Unseen
Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle
Three Girls
Generation '66
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Red Top
I Wish For You
The Falling
Hamlet
Strange Weather
The Shuttleworths
The Theory of Everything
Keeping Rosy
Inside No. 9
Run & Jump
Keeping Up with the Joneses
Svengali
The Village
