I Swear2025
As Dottie
TMDb 8.3 / 10
Maxine Peake
Born
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.
Filmography (74)
The Theory of Everything2014
As Elaine Mason
TMDb 7.8 / 10
Wendell & Wild2022
As Irmgard Klaxon (voice)
TMDb 6.6 / 10
All or Nothing2002
As Party girl
TMDb 7.1 / 10
The Falling2015
As Eileen Lamont
TMDb 5.1 / 10
Words of War2025
As Anna Politkovskaya
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Funny Cow2018
As Funny Cow
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Peterloo2018
As Nellie
TMDb 6.7 / 10
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas2007
As Self
Dance First2023
As Barbara
TMDb 6.9 / 10
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 19802009
As Helen Marshall
TMDb 6.9 / 10
Frozen2005
As Ticket Attendant
TMDb 5.9 / 10
Red Top2016
As Rebekah Brooks
TMDb 5.3 / 10
Girls' Night1998
As Sharon
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Run & Jump2014
As Vanetia
TMDb 5.9 / 10
Fanny Lye Deliver'd2019
As Fanny Lye
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Choked Up2023
As Fiona Lacey
TMDb 7.5 / 10
A Midsummer Night's Dream2016
As Titania
TMDb 5.3 / 10
Faith2005
As Linda
TMDb 9.0 / 10
Keeping Rosy2014
As Charlotte
TMDb 5.4 / 10
Laundreams2025
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings2000
As Self
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Best Laid Plans2012
As Isabel
TMDb 5.5 / 10
Clubbed2008
As Angela
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Strange Weather2015
As Jane
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister2010
As Anne Lister
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Tish2023
As Tish Murtha (voice)
TMDb 9.0 / 10
Private Peaceful2012
As Hazel Peaceful
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough2025
As Narrator
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Woken2024
As Helen
TMDb 5.4 / 10
Svengali2013
As Angie
TMDb 5.4 / 10
The Shuttleworths2015
As Helen Bach
Becoming Victoria Wood2026
As Self
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Keeping Up with the Joneses2013
As Celia
TMDb 5.9 / 10
Wonders of the Moon2018
As Narrator (voice)
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Unseen2017
As Emma
DeafBlind2011
As Maggie
Generation '662016
As Narrator
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Men Who Sleep in Cars2017
As Sarah
Gwen2018
As Elen
TMDb 5.5 / 10
Surfaces2020
As Alix
Hamilton Mattress2002
As Lulu (voice)
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Hamlet2015
As Hamlet
TMDb 8.2 / 10
Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods2017
As Self (archive footage)
TMDb 7.2 / 10
Christmas Lights2004
As Pauline
TMDb 5.6 / 10
Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle2017
As Narrator
TMDb 4.0 / 10
The Priest2017
Cake2017
TMDb 5.3 / 10
Hancock & Joan2008
As Joan Le Mesurier
TMDb 4.1 / 10
Inner Polar Bear
Inner Polar Bear2022
As Narrator (voice)
The Occupant of the Room2025
As The Englishwoman (voice)
The Real Anne: Unfinished Business2022
As Self- Presenter
Quiet on Set: The Class Division in the Film Industry?2025
As Self
Confessions of a Diary Secretary
Confessions of a Diary Secretary2007
As Tracey Temple
Imaginary Friend
Imaginary Friend2010
As Pauline
TMDb 8.0 / 10
I Am Bob
I Am Bob2007
As Marilyn Monroe Lookalike/Compere's Assistant
TMDb 7.5 / 10
Art Matters2024
As Self
TMDb 10.0 / 10
Something Out of Nothing2022
The Bright Side Running Club
The Bright Side Running ClubRelease date TBA
I Wish For You2016
As Grown Up Mia
The Heart Fails Without Warning
The Heart Fails Without Warning2013
As Mother
Be Still My Beating Heart
Be Still My Beating Heart2019
TMDb 1.0 / 10
The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca2018
As Self
The Great Mountain Sheep Gather2020
As Self - Narrator
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Edge2010
As Elly
TMDb 6.0 / 10
It's Me2020
As Miriam
Bike Squad2008
As WPC Kate McFay
Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels2018
As Friedrich Engels (voice)
TMDb 0.5 / 10
Where We Used to Meet2021
Lapushka!2022
As Scoot Piccolo
Would Like To Meet
Would Like To Meet2007
As George's Mum
TMDb 10.0 / 10
The Fear of Trilogy2006
The Madness of the Dance
The Madness of the Dance2006
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Judy2019
As Judy
Filmography and biography: TMDb