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.
Acting
Movie
The Theory of Everything
as Elaine Mason
2014
TV
Black Mirror
as Bella
2011
TV
Star Wars: Visions
as Kalina Kalfus (voice)
2021
Movie
Wendell & Wild
as Irmgard Klaxon (voice)
2022
Movie
I Swear
as Dottie
2025
TV
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
2007
TV
Inside No. 9
as Nadia
2014
Movie
The Falling
as Eileen Lamont
2015
Movie
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
as Helen Marshall
2009
Movie
All or Nothing
as Party girl
2002
Movie
Peterloo
as Nellie
2018
TV
Shameless
as Veronica Fisher
2004
TV
Say Nothing
as Older Dolours Price
2024
TV
The Hollow Crown
as Doll Tearsheet
2012
TV
Little Dorrit
as Miss Wade
2008
TV
Jonathan Creek
as Marion Cretiss
1997
Movie
Clubbed
as Angela
2008
Movie
Gwen
as Elen
2018
Movie
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
as Anne Lister
2010
Movie
Fanny Lye Deliver'd
as Fanny Lye
2019
TV
Silk
as Martha Costello QC
2011
TV
Three Girls
as Sara Rowbotham
2017
Movie
Private Peaceful
as Hazel Peaceful
2012
TV
The Devil's Whore
as Elizabeth Lilburne
2008
