Acting credits
111
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Maxine Peake
Acting
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Movies: 67Series: 46Crew credits: 5
TMDB ID: 76944
IMDb ID: nm0668845
Known for: Acting
Born: July 14, 1974
Age: 52
Place of birth: Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, UK
Gender: Female
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1978 - 2026
Years active: 49
Average TMDB rating: 6.86
Wikidata: Q3853137
Other jobs
Director (1)Executive Producer (1)Producer (1)Thanks (1)Writer (1)
Biography
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.
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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Maxine Peake.
Becoming Victoria Wood
as Self
2026 Movie
Laundreams
2025 Movie
The Occupant of the Room
as The Englishwoman (voice)
2025 Movie
Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough
as Narrator
2025 Movie
I Swear
as Dottie
2025 Movie
Quiet on Set: The Class Division in the Film Industry?
as Self
2025 Movie
Words of War
as Anna Politkovskaya
2025 Movie
Art Matters
as Self
2024 Movie
Woken
as Helen
2024 Movie
Tish
as Tish Murtha (voice)
2023 Movie
Dance First
as Barbara
2023 Movie
Choked Up
as Fiona Lacey
2023 Movie
Wendell & Wild
as Irmgard Klaxon (voice)
2022 Movie
Lapushka!
as Scoot Piccolo
2022 Movie
Something Out of Nothing
2022 Movie
Incompatible
Director
2022 Movie
The Real Anne: Unfinished Business
as Self- Presenter
2022 Movie
Where We Used to Meet
2021 Movie
Doughnut
Thanks
2021 Movie
Surfaces
as Alix
2020 Movie
The Great Mountain Sheep Gather
as Self - Narrator
2020 Movie
It's Me
as Miriam
2020 Movie
Fanny Lye Deliver'd
as Fanny Lye
2019 Movie
Judy
as Judy
2019 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Maxine Peake.
Last Seen
as Jenna Reid • 6 eps
2026 Series
Bait
as Helen • 2 eps
2026 Series
The Haunted Season
as The Englishwoman (voice) • 1 eps
2024 Series
Say Nothing
as Older Dolours Price • 9 eps
2024 Series
Secret Life of the Safari Park
as Narrator • 6 eps
2024 Series
Art That Made Us
as Self - Actrice (Rules of the Game, Anne) • 2 eps
2022 Series
Rules of the Game
as Sam Thompson • 4 eps
2022 Series
Anne
as Anne Williams • 4 eps
2022 Series
Star Wars: Visions
as Kalina Kalfus (voice) • 1 eps
2021 Series
Mandy
as Susan Blower • 1 eps
2020 Series
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
as Miss Fozzard • 1 eps
2020 Series
The Bisexual
as Sadie • 6 eps
2018 Series
Dinnerladies Diaries
as Self • 3 eps
2018 Series
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
2018 Series
Three Girls
as Sara Rowbotham • 3 eps
2017 Series
We Have Been Watching
as Self • 5 eps
2017 Series
Inside No. 9
as Nadia • 1 eps
2014 Series
The Village
as Grace Middleton • 12 eps
2013 Series
Room at the Top
as Alice Aisgill • 2 eps
2012 Series
The Hollow Crown
as Doll Tearsheet • 2 eps
2012 Series
Black Mirror
as Bella • 1 eps
2011 Series
Silk
as Martha Costello QC • 18 eps
2011 Series
Red Riding
1 eps
2009 Series
The Devil's Whore
as Elizabeth Lilburne • 4 eps
2008 Series