People
Maxine Peake
- Name: Maxine Peake
- Birthday: 1974-07-14
- Place of birth: Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, UK
- Popularity: 7.104
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.
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Movies:
| Title | Release date |
|---|---|
| Art Matters as Self | 2024-07-24 |
| Woken as Helen | 2024-07-04 |
| Tish as Tish Murtha (voice) | 2023-11-17 |
| Dance First as Barbara | 2023-11-03 |
| Choked Up as Fiona Lacey | 2023-03-28 |
| Wendell & Wild as Irmgard Klaxon (voice) | 2022-10-21 |
| Inner Polar Bear as Narrator (voice) | 2022-10-06 |
| Lapushka! as Scoot Piccolo | 2022-08-04 |
| Something Out of Nothing | 2022-05-29 |
| The Real Anne: Unfinished Business as Self- Presenter | 2022-01-06 |
| Where We Used to Meet | 2021-09-28 |
| Surfaces as Alix | 2020-06-03 |
| The Great Mountain Sheep Gather as Self - Narrator | 2020-04-13 |
| It's Me as Miriam | 2020-01-02 |
| Fanny Lye Deliver'd as Fanny Lye | 2019-10-10 |
| Be Still My Beating Heart | 2019-10-06 |
| Judy as Judy | 2019-01-01 |
| Peterloo as Nellie | 2018-11-01 |
| The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca as Herself | 2018-09-02 |
| Gwen as Elen | 2018-07-12 |
| Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels as Friedrich Engels (voice) | 2018-06-22 |
| Funny Cow as Funny Cow | 2018-04-20 |
| Wonders of the Moon as Narrator (voice) | 2018-01-31 |
| The Priest | 2017-12-11 |
| Men Who Sleep in Cars as Sarah | 2017-10-01 |
| Cake | 2017-09-29 |
| Unseen as Emma | 2017-09-22 |
| Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle as Narrator | 2017-06-08 |
| Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods as Self (archive footage) | 2017-04-21 |
| Generation '66 as Narrator | 2016-07-31 |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream as Titania | 2016-05-30 |
| Red Top as Rebekah Brooks | 2016-01-20 |
| I Wish For You as Grown Up Mia | 2016-01-01 |
| The Falling as Eileen Lamont | 2015-04-24 |
| Hamlet as Hamlet | 2015-03-23 |
| Strange Weather as Jane | 2015-01-02 |
| The Shuttleworths as Helen Bach | 2015-01-01 |
| The Theory of Everything as Elaine Mason | 2014-11-26 |
| Keeping Rosy as Charlotte | 2014-06-08 |
| Run & Jump as Vanetia | 2014-01-24 |
| Keeping Up with the Joneses as Celia | 2013-10-18 |
| Svengali as Angie | 2013-06-19 |
| The Heart Fails Without Warning as Mother | 2013-01-01 |
| Private Peaceful as Hazel Peaceful | 2012-10-12 |
| Best Laid Plans as Isabel | 2012-02-03 |
| DeafBlind as Maggie | 2011-12-31 |
| Edge as Elly | 2010-10-23 |
| Imaginary Friend as Pauline | 2010-05-08 |
| The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister as Anne Lister | 2010-03-01 |
| Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980 as Helen Marshall | 2009-02-28 |
| Clubbed as Angela | 2008-10-02 |
| Hancock & Joan as Joan Le Mesurier | 2008-03-26 |
| Bike Squad as WPC Kate McFay | 2008-01-04 |
| Would Like To Meet as George's Mum | 2007-07-31 |
| I Am Bob as Marilyn Monroe Lookalike/Compere's Assistant | 2007-04-26 |
| Confessions of a Diary Secretary as Tracey Temple | 2007-02-28 |
| The 50 Greatest Television Dramas as Self | 2007-02-03 |
| The Fear of Trilogy | 2006-01-01 |
| The Madness of the Dance | 2006-01-01 |
| Frozen as Ticket Attendant | 2005-03-12 |
| Faith as Linda | 2005-02-28 |
| Christmas Lights as Pauline | 2004-12-20 |
| All or Nothing as Party girl | 2002-05-17 |
| Hamilton Mattress as Lulu (voice) | 2002-01-01 |
| Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings as Self | 2000-12-25 |
| Girls' Night as Sharon | 1998-06-26 |
