
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.

Art Matters

Tish

Dinnerladies Diaries

I Swear

ブラック・ミラー

Hamlet

Inside No. 9

博士と彼女のセオリー

リトル・ドリット

Early Doors

The Street

Criminal Justice

Alan Bennett's Talking Heads

Shameless

Mandy

Jonathan Creek

Silk

dinnerladies

Clocking Off

セイ・ナッシング

The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer

ホロウ・クラウン/嘆きの王冠

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

Three Girls

Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods

Messiah

グレアム・ノートン・ショー

The Village

人生は、時々晴れ

Anne

スター・ウォーズ:ビジョンズ

Generation '66

Choked Up

Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough

Timeshift

Linda Green

Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980

Room at the Top

Dance First

Red Riding

Girls' Night

The Devil's Whore

ピータールー マンチェスターの悲劇

Clubbed

ウェンデルとワイルド

Private Peaceful

Wonders of the Moon

Words of War

The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister

Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings

Fanny Lye Deliver'd

The Bisexual

Hamilton Mattress

Funny Cow

Dalziel & Pascoe

See No Evil: The Moors Murders

ChuckleVision

Rules of the Game

Edge

Becoming Victoria Wood

Run & Jump

Keeping Up with the Joneses

Frozen

Art That Made Us

Keeping Rosy

Best Laid Plans

Gwen

Woken

Svengali

Red Top

Cake

A Midsummer Night's Dream

フォーリング 少女たちのめざめ

Christmas Lights

The One Show

Hancock & Joan

Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle

Sunburn

Comedy Connections

Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas

Where We Used to Meet

The Real Anne: Unfinished Business

Something Out of Nothing

Surfaces

Lapushka!

Judy

Strange Weather

I Wish For You

It's Me

The Great Mountain Sheep Gather

Faith

Bike Squad

Men Who Sleep in Cars

DeafBlind

The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca

The Priest

The Fear of Trilogy

The Shuttleworths

Twisting My Melon

Unseen

Quiet on Set: The Class Division in the Film Industry?

The Occupant of the Room

We Have Been Watching

Secret Life of the Safari Park

Fairy Tales