Maxine Peake

Maxine Peake

Birthday: 1974-07-14

Place of birth: Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, UK

Also known as:

imdb_id: nm0668845

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.

Played in movies:

Would Like To Meet

Score: 10.0

Art Matters

Score: 10.0

Tish

Score: 9.0

Hamlet

Score: 8.2

Imaginary Friend

Score: 8.0

The Theory of Everything

Score: 7.8

I Am Bob

Score: 7.5

Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods

Score: 7.2

All or Nothing

Score: 7.1

Choked Up

Score: 7.0

Generation '66

Score: 7.0

Dance First

Score: 7.0

Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980

Score: 6.9

Girls' Night

Score: 6.8

Peterloo

Score: 6.8

Clubbed

Score: 6.8

Words of War

Score: 6.7

Wendell & Wild

Score: 6.7

Wonders of the Moon

Score: 6.6

Private Peaceful

Score: 6.6

The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister

Score: 6.6

Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings

Score: 6.5

The Madness of the Dance

Score: 6.5

Fanny Lye Deliver'd

Score: 6.4

Funny Cow

Score: 6.3

Hamilton Mattress

Score: 6.3

Run & Jump

Score: 6.0

Edge

Score: 6.0

Keeping Up with the Joneses

Score: 5.9

Woken

Score: 5.8

Frozen

Score: 5.7

Best Laid Plans

Score: 5.6

Keeping Rosy

Score: 5.6

Gwen

Score: 5.4

Cake

Score: 5.3

Red Top

Score: 5.3

Svengali

Score: 5.3

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Score: 5.2

The Falling

Score: 5.1

Christmas Lights

Score: 5.1

Hancock & Joan

Score: 4.9

Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle

Score: 4.0

Be Still My Beating Heart

Score: 1.0

Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels

Score: 0.5

Criminal Justice II

Score: 0.0

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

Score: 0.0

Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough

Score: 0.0

Unseen

Score: 0.0

Twisting My Melon

Score: 0.0

The Shuttleworths

Score: 0.0

The Fear of Trilogy

Score: 0.0

The Priest

Score: 0.0

The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca

Score: 0.0

DeafBlind

Score: 0.0

Men Who Sleep in Cars

Score: 0.0

The Heart Fails Without Warning

Score: 0.0

I Swear

Score: 0.0

Bike Squad

Score: 0.0

Faith

Score: 0.0

The Great Mountain Sheep Gather

Score: 0.0

Inner Polar Bear

Score: 0.0

Strange Weather

Score: 0.0

Lapushka!

Score: 0.0

It's Me

Score: 0.0

Judy

Score: 0.0

I Wish For You

Score: 0.0

Surfaces

Score: 0.0

Something Out of Nothing

Score: 0.0

Confessions of a Diary Secretary

Score: 0.0

The Real Anne: Unfinished Business

Score: 0.0

Where We Used to Meet

Score: 0.0

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Dinnerladies Diaries

Score: 9.0

Black Mirror

Score: 8.3

Alan Bennett's Talking Heads

Score: 8.1

Inside No. 9

Score: 8.0

Little Dorrit

Score: 7.8

The Street

Score: 7.7

Early Doors

Score: 7.7

Criminal Justice

Score: 7.6

Silk

Score: 7.6

Shameless

Score: 7.5

Shameless

Score: 7.5

The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer

Score: 7.5

The Village

Score: 7.5

Jonathan Creek

Score: 7.5

Mandy

Score: 7.4

The Hollow Crown

Score: 7.4

Clocking Off

Score: 7.4

dinnerladies

Score: 7.4

Say Nothing

Score: 7.3

Room at the Top

Score: 7.3

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

Score: 7.3

Three Girls

Score: 7.3

Messiah

Score: 7.2

The Graham Norton Show

Score: 7.2

Star Wars: Visions

Score: 7.1

Anne

Score: 7.0

Linda Green

Score: 7.0

Timeshift

Score: 7.0

The Devil's Whore

Score: 6.9

The Bisexual

Score: 6.9

Red Riding

Score: 6.7

Dalziel & Pascoe

Score: 6.5

See No Evil: The Moors Murders

Score: 6.3

ChuckleVision

Score: 6.2

Rules of the Game

Score: 6.1

Art That Made Us

Score: 5.5

Sunburn

Score: 4.0

The Alan Titchmarsh Show

Score: 3.7

Comedy Connections

Score: 2.0

The Dispatcher

Score: 0.0

Secret Life of the Safari Park

Score: 0.0

Artsnight

Score: 0.0

Fairy Tales

Score: 0.0

We Have Been Watching

Score: 0.0