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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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, UK, 1974-07-14

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1998	Girls' Night	Sharon	68
2	2000	Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings	Self	65
3	2002	Hamilton Mattress	Lulu (voice)	63
4	2002	All or Nothing	Party girl	71
5	2004	Christmas Lights	Pauline	51
6	2005	Faith	Linda	0
7	2005	Frozen	Ticket Attendant	57
8	2006	The Madness of the Dance		65
9	2006	The Fear of Trilogy		0
10	2007	The 50 Greatest Television Dramas	Self	0
11	2007	Confessions of a Diary Secretary	Tracey Temple	0
12	2007	I Am Bob	Marilyn Monroe Lookalike/Compere's Assistant	75
13	2007	Would Like To Meet	George's Mum	100
14	2008	Bike Squad	WPC Kate McFay	0
15	2008	Hancock & Joan	Joan Le Mesurier	49
16	2008	Clubbed	Angela	67
17	2009	Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980	Helen Marshall	69
18	2010	The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister	Anne Lister	66
19	2010	Imaginary Friend	Pauline	80
20	2010	Edge	Elly	60
21	2011	DeafBlind	Maggie	0
22	2012	Best Laid Plans	Isabel	56
23	2012	Private Peaceful	Hazel Peaceful	66
24	2013	The Heart Fails Without Warning	Mother	0
25	2013	Svengali	Angie	53
26	2013	Keeping Up with the Joneses	Celia	59
27	2014	Run & Jump	Vanetia	60
28	2014	Keeping Rosy	Charlotte	56
29	2014	The Theory of Everything	Elaine Mason	78
30	2015	The Shuttleworths	Helen Bach	0
31	2015	Strange Weather	Jane	0
32	2015	Hamlet	Hamlet	82
33	2015	The Falling	Eileen Lamont	51
34	2016	I Wish For You	Grown Up Mia	0
35	2016	Red Top	Rebekah Brooks	53
36	2016	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Titania	52
37	2016	Generation '66	Narrator	70
38	2017	Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods	Self (archive footage)	74
39	2017	Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle	Narrator	40
40	2017	Unseen	Emma	0
41	2017	Cake		53
42	2017	Men Who Sleep in Cars	Sarah	0
43	2017	The Priest		0
44	2018	Wonders of the Moon	Narrator (voice)	66
45	2018	Funny Cow	Funny Cow	63
46	2018	Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels	Friedrich Engels (voice)	5
47	2018	Gwen	Elen	54
48	2018	The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca	Herself	0
49	2018	Peterloo	Nellie	68
50	2019	Judy	Judy	0
51	2019	Be Still My Beating Heart		10
52	2019	Fanny Lye Deliver'd	Fanny Lye	65
53	2020	It's Me	Miriam	0
54	2020	The Great Mountain Sheep Gather	Self - Narrator	0
55	2020	Surfaces	Alix	0
56	2021	Where We Used to Meet		0
57	2022	The Real Anne: Unfinished Business	Self- Presenter	0
58	2022	Something Out of Nothing		0
59	2022	Lapushka!	Scoot Piccolo	0
60	2022	Inner Polar Bear	Narrator (voice)	0
61	2022	Wendell & Wild	Irmgard Klaxon (voice)	66
62	2023	Choked Up	Fiona Lacey	70
63	2023	Dance First	Barbara	70
64	2023	Tish	Tish Murtha (voice)	90
65	2024	Woken	Helen	55
66	2024	Art Matters	Self	100
67	2025	Words of War	Anna Politkovskaya	67
68		I Swear		0
69		Twisting My Melon	Linda Ryder	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1987	ChuckleVision		62
2	1996	Hetty Wainthropp Investigates	Photocopy Assistant	72
3	1996	Dalziel & Pascoe		64
4	1997	Jonathan Creek	Marion Cretiss	75
5	1998	dinnerladies	Twinkle	74
6	1999	Sunburn	Sue	40
7	2000	Clocking Off	Marie Leach	74
8	2001	Messiah	DS Vickie Clarke	72
9	2001	Linda Green	Receptionist	70
10	2002	Timeshift	Self - Narrator	70
11	2003	Early Doors	Janice	77
12	2003	Comedy Connections		20
13	2004	Shameless		75
14	2004	Shameless	Veronica Fisher	75
15	2006	The Street		77
16	2006	See No Evil: The Moors Murders	Myra Hindley	63
17	2007	The Graham Norton Show	Self	72
18	2007	The Alan Titchmarsh Show	Self	37
19	2008	Fairy Tales		0
20	2008	Criminal Justice	Juliet Miller	76
21	2008	Little Dorrit	Miss Wade	78
22	2008	The Devil's Whore	Elizabeth Lilburne	69
23	2009	Red Riding		65
24	2011	Silk	Martha Costello	76
25	2011	Black Mirror	Bella	83
26	2012	The Hollow Crown	Doll Tearsheet	73
27	2012	Room at the Top	Alice Aisgill	73
28	2013	The Village	Grace Middleton	75
29	2014	Inside No. 9	Nadia	80
30	2015	Artsnight	Self - Presenter	0
31	2017	We Have Been Watching	Self	0
32	2017	Three Girls	Sara Rowbotham	72
33	2018	The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer	Self - Guest	75
34	2018	The Bisexual	Sadie	70
35	2020	Alan Bennett's Talking Heads	Miss Fozzard	81
36	2021	Star Wars: Visions	Kalina Kalfus (voice)	72
37	2022	Anne	Anne Williams	68
38	2022	Rules of the Game	Sam Thompson	61
39	2022	Art That Made Us	Self - Actrice (Rules of the Game, Anne)	55
40	2024	Secret Life of the Safari Park	Narrator	0
41	2024	Say Nothing	Older Dolours Price	74
42		The Dispatcher		0