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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Silk
as Martha Costello
Episodes: 18
First Aired: Feb 22, 2011
Shameless
as Veronica Fisher
Episodes: 17
First Aired: Jan 13, 2004
dinnerladies
as Twinkle
Episodes: 16
First Aired: Nov 12, 1998
Little Dorrit
as Miss Wade
Episodes: 14
First Aired: Oct 26, 2008
The Village
as Grace Middleton
Episodes: 12
First Aired: Mar 31, 2013
Say Nothing
as Older Dolours Price
Episodes: 9
First Aired: Nov 14, 2024
Early Doors
as Janice
Episodes: 6
First Aired: May 12, 2003
Secret Life of the Safari Park
as Narrator
Episodes: 6
First Aired: Jan 04, 2024
The Bisexual
as Sadie
Episodes: 6
First Aired: Oct 10, 2018
Criminal Justice
as Juliet Miller
Episodes: 5
First Aired: Jun 30, 2008
Rules of the Game
as Sam Thompson
Episodes: 4
First Aired: Jan 11, 2022
The Devil's Whore
as Elizabeth Lilburne
Episodes: 4
First Aired: Nov 19, 2008
Anne
as Anne Williams
Episodes: 4
First Aired: Jan 02, 2022
Messiah
as DS Vickie Clarke
Episodes: 3
First Aired: May 26, 2001
Three Girls
as Sara Rowbotham
Episodes: 3
First Aired: May 16, 2017
Room at the Top
as Alice Aisgill
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Sep 26, 2012
See No Evil: The Moors Murders
as Myra Hindley
Episodes: 2
First Aired: May 14, 2006
The Hollow Crown
as Doll Tearsheet
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Jun 30, 2012
Jonathan Creek
as Marion Cretiss
Episodes: 1
First Aired: May 09, 1997
Star Wars: Visions
as Kalina Kalfus (voice)
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 22, 2021
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
as Photocopy Assistant
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 03, 1996
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
as Miss Fozzard
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jun 23, 2020
Clocking Off
as Marie Leach
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 23, 2000
Sunburn
as Sue
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 16, 1999
Black Mirror
as Bella
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Dec 04, 2011
Linda Green
as Receptionist
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 30, 2001
Inside No. 9
as Nadia
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Feb 05, 2014
Shameless
Episodes: 6
First Aired: Jan 13, 2004
We Have Been Watching
as Self
Episodes: 5
First Aired: Jan 04, 2017
Art That Made Us
as Self - Actrice (Rules of the Game, Anne)
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Apr 07, 2022
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Feb 22, 2007
ChuckleVision
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 26, 1987
Comedy Connections
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jun 09, 2003
Dalziel & Pascoe
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Mar 16, 1996
Fairy Tales
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 10, 2008
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 03, 2007
The Street
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Apr 13, 2006
Red Riding
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Mar 12, 2009
Timeshift
as Self - Narrator
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 10, 2002
Artsnight
as Self - Presenter
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Mar 06, 2015
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