Maxine Peake
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Female
Birthday 1974-07-14 (50 years old)
Place of Birth Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, UK
Maxine Peake
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.
Known For
Actor
as Anna Politkovskaya
as Linda Ryder
as Self
as Helen
as Older Dolours Price
as Narrator
as Tish Murtha (voice)
as Barbara
as Fiona Lacey
as Irmgard Klaxon (voice)
as Narrator (voice)
as Scoot Piccolo
as Self- Presenter
as Self - Actrice (Rules of the Game, Anne)
as Sam Thompson
as Anne Williams
as Kalina Kalfus (voice)
as Alix
as Self - Narrator
as Miriam
as Miss Fozzard
as Fanny Lye
as Judy
as Nellie
as Herself
as Elen
as Friedrich Engels (voice)
as Funny Cow
as Narrator (voice)
as Sadie
as Sarah
as Emma
as Narrator
as Self (archive footage)
as Sara Rowbotham
as Self
as Narrator
as Titania
as Rebekah Brooks
as Grown Up Mia
as Eileen Lamont
as Hamlet
as Jane
as Helen Bach
as Self - Presenter
as Elaine Mason
as Charlotte
as Vanetia
as Nadia
as Celia
as Angie
as Mother
as Grace Middleton
as Hazel Peaceful
as Isabel
as Alice Aisgill
as Doll Tearsheet
as Maggie
as Bella
as Martha Costello
as Elly
as Pauline
as Anne Lister
as Helen Marshall
as Angela
as Joan Le Mesurier
as WPC Kate McFay
as Elizabeth Lilburne
as Miss Wade
as Juliet Miller
as George's Mum
as Marilyn Monroe Lookalike/Compere's Assistant
as Tracey Temple
as Self
as Self
as Myra Hindley
as Ticket Attendant
as Linda
as Pauline
as Veronica Fisher
as Janice
as Party girl
as Lulu (voice)
as Self - Narrator
as Receptionist
as DS Vickie Clarke
as Marie Leach
as Sue
as Sharon
as Twinkle
as Marion Cretiss
as Photocopy Assistant
Director
as Director
as Director
Producer
as Producer
as Executive Producer
Crew
as Thanks
Writer
as Writer