10.0
10.0
Would Like To Meet
2007
as George's Mum
Maxine Peake
Acting
Born:July 14, 1974(age 52)
Birthplace:Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, UK
N/A
CommunityBiography
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.
Filmography (70 movies)
10.0
10.0
Art Matters
2024
as Self
9.0
9.0
Tish
2023
as Tish Murtha (voice)
8.3
8.3
I Swear
2025
as Dottie
8.2
8.2
Hamlet
2015
as Hamlet
8.0
8.0
Imaginary Friend
2010
as Pauline
7.8
7.8
The Theory of Everything
2014
as Elaine Mason
7.5
7.5
I Am Bob
2007
as Marilyn Monroe Lookalike/Compere's Assistant
7.2
7.2
Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods
2017
as Self (archive footage)
7.0
7.0
Generation '66
2016
as Narrator
7.0
7.0
Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough
2025
as Narrator
7.0
7.0
Dance First
2023
as Barbara
7.0
7.0
Choked Up
2023
as Fiona Lacey
6.9
6.9
Words of War
2025
as Anna Politkovskaya
6.9
6.9
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
2009
as Helen Marshall
6.8
6.8
Girls' Night
1998
as Sharon
6.8
6.8
Peterloo
2018
as Nellie
6.8
6.8
Clubbed
2008
as Angela
6.6
6.6
Wendell & Wild
2022
as Irmgard Klaxon (voice)
6.6
6.6
Private Peaceful
2012
as Hazel Peaceful
6.6
6.6
Wonders of the Moon
2018
as Narrator (voice)
6.5
6.5
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
2010
as Anne Lister
6.5
6.5
The Madness of the Dance
2006
6.3
6.3
Hamilton Mattress
2002
as Lulu (voice)
6.3
6.3
Funny Cow
2018
Executive Producer
6.3
6.3
Fanny Lye Deliver'd
2019
as Fanny Lye
6.0
6.0
Edge
2010
as Elly
5.9
5.9
Keeping Up with the Joneses
2013
as Celia
5.9
5.9
Run & Jump
2014
as Vanetia
5.7
5.7
Frozen
2005
as Ticket Attendant
5.4
5.4
Keeping Rosy
2014
as Charlotte
5.4
5.4
Best Laid Plans
2012
as Isabel
5.4
5.4
Woken
2024
as Helen
5.4
5.4
Gwen
2018
as Elen
5.3
5.3
Cake
2017
5.3
5.3
Svengali
2013
as Angie
5.3
5.3
Red Top
2016
as Rebekah Brooks
5.1
5.1
The Falling
2015
as Eileen Lamont
5.1
5.1
Christmas Lights
2004
as Pauline
4.9
4.9
A Midsummer Night's Dream
2016
as Titania
4.1
4.1
Hancock & Joan
2008
as Joan Le Mesurier
4.0
4.0
Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle
2017
as Narrator
1.0
1.0
Be Still My Beating Heart
2019
0.5
0.5
Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels
2018
as Friedrich Engels (voice)
It's Me
2020
as Miriam
Inner Polar Bear
2022
as Narrator (voice)
The Great Mountain Sheep Gather
2020
as Self - Narrator
Bike Squad
2008
as WPC Kate McFay
Quiet on Set: The Class Division in the Film Industry?
2025
as Self
The Occupant of the Room
2025
Men Who Sleep in Cars
2017
as Sarah
Faith
2005
as Linda
The Heart Fails Without Warning
2013
as Mother
Confessions of a Diary Secretary
2007
as Tracey Temple
DeafBlind
2011
as Maggie
The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca
2018
Director
The Priest
2017
Writer
The Fear of Trilogy
2006
The Shuttleworths
2015
as Helen Bach
Twisting My Melon
TBA
as Linda Ryder
Unseen
2017
as Emma
Where We Used to Meet
2021
The Real Anne: Unfinished Business
2022
as Self- Presenter
Something Out of Nothing
2022
Surfaces
2020
as Alix
Lapushka!
2022
as Scoot Piccolo
Judy
2019
as Judy
Strange Weather
2015
as Jane
I Wish For You
2016
as Grown Up Mia
Incompatible
2022
Director
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