Maxine Peake
Known for ActingBorn 1974-07-14 (age 51)Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, UK
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.Read more
Movies & web series
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Art Matters
2024 · Movie
Would Like To Meet
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Would Like To Meet
2007 · Movie
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Tish
2023 · Movie
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Dinnerladies Diaries
2018 · Series
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Faith
2005 · Movie
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I Swear
2025 · Movie
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Black Mirror
2011 · Series
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Hamlet
2015 · Movie
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Inside No. 9
2014 · Series
Imaginary Friend
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Imaginary Friend
2010 · Movie
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The Theory of Everything
2014 · Movie
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Little Dorrit
2008 · Series
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Early Doors
2003 · Series
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Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
2020 · Series
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Mandy
2020 · Series
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Criminal Justice
2008 · Series
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The Street
2006 · Series
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Say Nothing
2024 · Series
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Silk
2011 · Series
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Shameless
2004 · Series
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Clocking Off
2000 · Series
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The Hollow Crown
2012 · Series
I Am Bob
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I Am Bob
2007 · Movie
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Jonathan Creek
1997 · Series
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Three Girls
2017 · Series
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dinnerladies
1998 · Series
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Doughnut
2021 · Movie
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Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods
2017 · Movie
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Messiah
2001 · Series
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Star Wars: Visions
2021 · Series
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Anne
2022 · Series
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The Village
2013 · Series
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The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
2018 · Series
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The Graham Norton Show
2007 · Series
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Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
1996 · Series
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Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough
2025 · Movie
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Choked Up
2023 · Movie
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Linda Green
2001 · Series
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Generation '66
2016 · Movie
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Dance First
2023 · Movie
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All or Nothing
2002 · Movie
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Timeshift
2002 · Series
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Room at the Top
2012 · Series
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Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
2000 · Movie
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Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
2009 · Movie
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Bait
2026 · Series
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Peterloo
2018 · Movie
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The Devil's Whore
2008 · Series