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...
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The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
As Self
Girls' Night
As Sharon
Where We Used to Meet
Dance First
As Barbara
Words of War
As Anna Politkovskaya
Clubbed
As Angela
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
As Anne Lister
The Real Anne: Unfinished Business
As Self- Presenter
I Am Bob
As Marilyn Monroe Lookalike/Compere's Assistant
Christmas Lights
As Pauline
Tish
As Tish Murtha (voice)
Wendell & Wild
As Irmgard Klaxon (voice)
Edge
As Elly
Woken
As Helen
Svengali
As Angie
Run & Jump
As Vanetia
Hancock & Joan
As Joan Le Mesurier
The Theory of Everything
As Elaine Mason
Confessions of a Diary Secretary
As Tracey Temple
Keeping Rosy
As Charlotte
Something Out of Nothing
Surfaces
As Alix
I Wish For You
As Grown Up Mia
Judy
As Judy
It's Me
As Miriam
Lapushka!
As Scoot Piccolo
Strange Weather
As Jane
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
As Helen Marshall
The Falling
As Eileen Lamont
Inner Polar Bear
As Narrator (voice)
Hamlet
As Hamlet
The Great Mountain Sheep Gather
As Self - Narrator
The Madness of the Dance
Generation '66
As Narrator
Faith
As Linda
Red Top
As Rebekah Brooks
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
As Self
Choked Up
As Fiona Lacey
Private Peaceful
As Hazel Peaceful
Bike Squad
As WPC Kate McFay
All or Nothing
As Party girl
A Midsummer Night's Dream
As Titania
Hamilton Mattress
As Lulu (voice)
Funny Cow
As Funny Cow
Art Matters
As Self
Keeping Up with the Joneses
As Celia
Best Laid Plans
As Isabel
Frozen
As Ticket Attendant
I Swear
The Heart Fails Without Warning
As Mother
Fanny Lye Deliver'd
As Fanny Lye
Would Like To Meet
As George's Mum
Imaginary Friend
As Pauline
Peterloo
As Nellie
Men Who Sleep in Cars
As Sarah
Wonders of the Moon
As Narrator (voice)
Cake
DeafBlind
As Maggie
Gwen
As Elen
The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca
As Herself
The Priest
Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle
As Narrator
The Fear of Trilogy
The Shuttleworths
As Helen Bach
Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods
As Self (archive footage)
Twisting My Melon
As Linda Ryder
Be Still My Beating Heart
Unseen
As Emma
Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels
As Friedrich Engels (voice)
Dinnerladies
As Twinkle
Early Doors
As Janice
ChuckleVision
Jonathan Creek
As Marion Cretiss
Shameless
Comedy Connections
Dalziel & Pascoe
We Have Been Watching
As Self
Criminal Justice
As Juliet Miller
Little Dorrit
As Miss Wade
Fairy Tales
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
As Self
The Street
Star Wars: Visions
As Kalina Kalfus (voice)
Red Riding
Timeshift
As Self - Narrator
The Village
As Grace Middleton
Silk
As Martha Costello
Artsnight
As Self - Presenter
Room at the Top
As Alice Aisgill
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
As Photocopy Assistant
Messiah
As DS Vickie Clarke
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
As Miss Fozzard
Clocking Off
As Marie Leach
Rules of the Game
As Sam Thompson
Sunburn
As Sue
Three Girls
As Sara Rowbotham
Art That Made Us
As Self - Actrice (Rules of the Game, Anne)
See No Evil: The Moors Murders
As Myra Hindley
The Devil's Whore
As Elizabeth Lilburne
Black Mirror
As Bella
The Graham Norton Show
As Self
Linda Green
As Receptionist
Secret Life of the Safari Park
As Narrator
The Bisexual
As Sadie
Say Nothing
As Older Dolours Price
The Hollow Crown
As Doll Tearsheet
Anne
As Anne Williams
Inside No. 9
As Nadia