Maxine Peake
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.
12 TV shows
TV Shows
Black Mirror
Channel 4
The Graham Norton Show
BBC One
Star Wars: Visions
Disney+
Shameless
Channel 4
Inside No. 9
BBC Two
Silk
BBC One
The Hollow Crown
BBC Two
Jonathan Creek
BBC One
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
ITV1
Bait
Prime Video
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
BBC One
ChuckleVision
BBC One
Other Credits
dinnerladies, Early Doors, Comedy Connections, We Have Been Watching, Criminal Justice, Little Dorrit, The Street, Red Riding, Timeshift, Artsnight, Room at the Top, Messiah, Alan Bennett's Talking Heads, Clocking Off, Rules of the Game, Sunburn, Three Girls, Art That Made Us, See No Evil: The Moors Murders, The Devil's Whore, Linda Green, Secret Life of the Safari Park, The Bisexual, Say Nothing, Anne, The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer, The Dispatcher, Mandy, Dinnerladies Diaries, The One Show, Fairy Tales, The Village, First Day on Earth, The Haunted Season