Acting
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.
The Graham Norton Show
2007 · TV
Black Mirror
2011 · TV
The One Show
2006 · TV
Shameless
2004 · TV
Star Wars: Visions
2021 · TV
Inside No. 9
2014 · TV
Silk
2011 · TV
Jonathan Creek
1997 · TV
I Swear
2025 · Movie
Timeshift
2002 · TV
The Hollow Crown
2012 · TV
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
1996 · TV
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
2018 · TV
Bait
2026 · TV
The Village
2013 · TV
The Theory of Everything
2014 · Movie
Say Nothing
2024 · TV
ChuckleVision
1987 · TV
Mandy
2020 · TV
Comedy Connections
2003 · TV
Little Dorrit
2008 · TV
Criminal Justice
2008 · TV
dinnerladies
1998 · TV
The Street
2006 · TV
Clocking Off
2000 · TV
Messiah
2001 · TV
Three Girls
2017 · TV
Fairy Tales
2008 · TV
The Devil's Whore
2008 · TV
Red Riding
2009 · TV
Anne
2022 · TV
The Bisexual
2018 · TV
Linda Green
2001 · TV
Sunburn
1999 · TV
Wendell & Wild
2022 · Movie
Art That Made Us
2022 · TV
Early Doors
2003 · TV
All or Nothing
2002 · Movie
Room at the Top
2012 · TV
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
2020 · TV
Words of War
2025 · Movie
Red Top
2016 · Movie
A Midsummer Night's Dream
2016 · Movie
Run & Jump
2014 · Movie
Peterloo
2018 · Movie
Dinnerladies Diaries
2018 · TV
The Falling
2015 · Movie
Private Peaceful
2012 · Movie
Funny Cow
2018 · Movie
Fanny Lye Deliver'd
2019 · Movie
We Have Been Watching
2017 · TV
Rules of the Game
2022 · TV
Choked Up
2023 · Movie
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
2009 · Movie
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007 · Movie
Frozen
2005 · Movie
Laundreams
2025 · Movie
Girls' Night
1998 · Movie
Faith
2005 · Movie
Strange Weather
2015 · Movie
Tish
2023 · Movie
Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough
2025 · Movie
Becoming Victoria Wood
2026 · Movie
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
2000 · Movie
Clubbed
2008 · Movie
Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle
2017 · Movie
The Shuttleworths
2015 · Movie
Dance First
2023 · Movie
Generation '66
2016 · Movie
Twisting My Melon
· Movie
Wonders of the Moon
2018 · Movie
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
2010 · Movie
Svengali
2013 · Movie
Unseen
2017 · Movie
Keeping Up with the Joneses
2013 · Movie
Keeping Rosy
2014 · Movie
Secret Life of the Safari Park
2024 · TV
Hamilton Mattress
2002 · Movie
Woken
2024 · Movie
The Haunted Season
2024 · TV
Hamlet
2015 · Movie
Best Laid Plans
2012 · Movie
The Real Anne: Unfinished Business
2022 · Movie
Surfaces
2020 · Movie
Gwen
2018 · Movie
Cake
2017 · Movie
DeafBlind
2011 · Movie
I Wish For You
2016 · Movie
Where We Used to Meet
2021 · Movie
Hancock & Joan
2008 · Movie
Christmas Lights
2004 · Movie
It's Me
2020 · Movie
Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods
2017 · Movie
Art Matters
2024 · Movie
Bike Squad
2008 · Movie
Men Who Sleep in Cars
2017 · Movie
Lapushka!
2022 · Movie
Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels
2018 · Movie
Something Out of Nothing
2022 · Movie
The Priest
2017 · Movie
The Great Mountain Sheep Gather
2020 · Movie
The Occupant of the Room
2025 · Movie
The Fear of Trilogy
2006 · Movie
Edge
2010 · Movie
The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca
2018 · Movie
See No Evil: The Moors Murders
2006 · TV
Quiet on Set: The Class Division in the Film Industry?
2025 · Movie
