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...
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...
Known For
Cast Credits
The Occupant of the Room
as The Englishwoman (voice)
I Swear
as Dottie
Words of War
as Anna Politkovskaya
Woken
as Helen
Dance First
as Barbara
Choked Up
as Fiona Lacey
Wendell & Wild
as Irmgard Klaxon (voice)
Inner Polar Bear
as Narrator (voice)
Lapushka!
as Scoot Piccolo
Surfaces
as Alix
It's Me
as Miriam
Fanny Lye Deliver'd
as Fanny Lye
Judy
as Judy
Peterloo
as Nellie
Gwen
as Elen
Funny Cow
as Funny Cow
Men Who Sleep in Cars
as Sarah
Unseen
as Emma
A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Titania
Red Top
as Rebekah Brooks
I Wish For You
as Grown Up Mia
The Falling
as Eileen Lamont
Hamlet
as Hamlet
Strange Weather
as Jane
The Shuttleworths
as Helen Bach