Maxine Peake
- Known For: Acting
- Birthday: 14-07-1974
- Gender: Female
- Place of Birth: Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, UK
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Maxine Peake (born 14 July 1974) is an English stage, radio, film and television actress, playwright 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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| Year | Movie | Character |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister | as Anne Lister |
| 2010 | Edge | as Elly |
| 2014 | Run & Jump | as Vanetia |
| 2014 | Keeping Rosy | as Charlotte |
| 2015 | Hamlet | as Hamlet |
| 2009 | Criminal Justice II | |
| 2016 | Red Top | as Rebekah Brooks |
| 2018 | Funny Cow | as Funny Cow |
| 2013 | Keeping Up with the Joneses | as Celia |
| 2017 | Unseen | as Cleaner |
| 2010 | Imaginary Friend | as Pauline |
| 2008 | Hancock & Joan | as Joan Le Mesurier |
| 2007 | Confessions of a Diary Secretary | as Tracey Temple |
| 2018 | Peterloo | as Nellie |
| 2006 | The Madness of the Dance | |
| 2005 | Faith | as Linda |
| 2019 | Fanny Lye Deliver'd | as Fanny Lye |
| 2018 | Wonders of the Moon | as Narrator (voice) |
| 2017 | Cake | |
| 2011 | DeafBlind | as Maggie |
| 2019 | Gwen | as Elen |
| 2018 | The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca | as Herself |
| 2017 | Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle | as Narrator |
| 2006 | The Fear of Trilogy | |
| 2019 | Be Still My Beating Heart | |
| 2015 | The Falling | as Eileen Lamont |
| 2007 | Would Like To Meet | as George's Mum |
| 2017 | Men Who Sleep in Cars | as Sarah |
| 2017 | The Priest | |
| 2015 | The Shuttleworths | as Helen Bach |
| 2018 | Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels | as Friedrich Engels (voice) |
| 2008 | Clubbed | as Angela |
| 2004 | Christmas Lights | as Pauline |
| 2013 | Svengali | as Angie |
| 2013 | The Heart Fails Without Warning | as Mother |
| 1970 | Twisting My Melon | as Linda Ryder |
| 2012 | Best Laid Plans | as Isabel |
| 2012 | Private Peaceful | as Hazel Peaceful |
| 2016 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | as Titania |
| 2012 | Rachael | as Mum |
| 2007 | I Am Bob | as Marilyn Monroe Lookalike/Compere's Assistant |
| 2014 | The Theory of Everything | as Elaine Mason |
| 2009 | Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980 | as Helen Marshall |
| 2002 | Hamilton Mattress | as Lulu (voice) |
| 1998 | Girls' Night | as Sharon |
| 2017 | Bunch of Kunst | as Herself (Archive Footage) |
| 2005 | Frozen | as Ticket Attendant |
| 2002 | All or Nothing | as Party girl |
| 2000 | Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings | |
| 2018 | The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca | |
| 2018 | The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca | |
| 2018 | Funny Cow | |
| 2017 | The Priest |