Maxine Peake

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. 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.

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Movies starring Maxine Peake (69)

Words of War (2025)

Anna Politkovskaya

Tish (2023)

Tish Murtha (Voice)

Choked Up (2023)

Fiona Lacey

Wendell & Wild (2022)

Irmgard Klaxon (Voice)

Inner Polar Bear (2022)

Narrator (Voice)

Lapushka! (2022)

Scoot Piccolo

Red Top (2016)

Rebekah Brooks

The Falling (2015)

Eileen Lamont

Hancock & Joan (2008)

Joan Le Mesurier

Bike Squad (2008)

Wpc Kate Mcfay

I Am Bob (2007)

Marilyn Monroe Lookalike/Compere's Assistant

Frozen (2005)

Ticket Attendant

Movies Made by Maxine Peake (5)

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Same surname: Peake