Maxine Peake

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.

Known For

The Theory of Everything

as Elaine Mason

Black Mirror

as Bella

Star Wars: Visions

as Kalina Kalfus (voice)

Wendell & Wild

as Irmgard Klaxon (voice)

The Graham Norton Show

as Self

Inside No. 9

as Nadia

The Falling

as Eileen Lamont

Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980

as Helen Marshall

All or Nothing

as Party girl

Peterloo

as Nellie