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Maxine Peake is an English actress. She is best known for her roles as Twinkle in Dinnerladies and Veronica Ball in Shameless, barrister Martha Costello in the BBC legal drama Silk, and Grace Middleton in the BBC drama series The Village, as well as starring in Black Mirror episode "Metalhead". She is also an accomplished stage actress, having played the title role in Hamlet.
Born
Sunday, 14 July 1974
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Tish | Tish Murtha | 2023 |
| Dance First | Barbara | 2023 |
| Wendell & Wild | Irmgard Klaxon / Irmgard Klaxon (voice) | 2022 |
| Kelvin's Big Farming Adventure | Self - Narrator | 2022 |
| Rules of the Game | Sam Thompson | 2022 |
| The Real Anne: Unfinished Business | Self - Narrator / Self- Presenter | 2022 |
| Anne | Anne Williams | 2022 |
| Star Wars: Visions | Kalina Kalfus | 2021 |
| Alan Bennett's Talking Heads | Miss Fozzard | 2020 |
| The Delivered | Fanny Lye | 2019 |
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Tish | Tish Murtha | 2023 |
| Dance First | Barbara | 2023 |
| Wendell & Wild | Irmgard Klaxon / Irmgard Klaxon (voice) | 2022 |
| Kelvin's Big Farming Adventure | Self - Narrator | 2022 |
| Rules of the Game | Sam Thompson | 2022 |
| The Real Anne: Unfinished Business | Self - Narrator / Self- Presenter | 2022 |
| Anne | Anne Williams | 2022 |
| Star Wars: Visions | Kalina Kalfus | 2021 |
| Alan Bennett's Talking Heads | Miss Fozzard | 2020 |
| The Delivered | Fanny Lye | 2019 |
| Gwen | Elen | 2019 |
| Peterloo | Nellie | 2018 |
| The Bisexual | Sadie | 2018 |
| Funny Cow | Funny Cow | 2018 |
| Dinnerladies Diaries | Twinkle / Self | 2018 |
| Wonders of the Moon | Self - Narrator / Narrator (voice) | 2018 |
| Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle | Narrator | 2017 |
| Three Girls | Sara Rowbotham | 2017 |
| Bunch of Kunst | Herself (Archive Footage) | 2017 |
| Our Friend Victoria | Self / Twinkle / Self - Presenter | 2017 |
| Let's Do It: A Tribute to Victoria Wood | Self / Twinkle | 2016 |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | Titania | 2016 |
| The Falling | Eileen Lamont | 2015 |
| Hamlet | Hamlet | 2015 |
| Artsnight | Self - Presenter | 2015 |
| Strange Weather | Jane | 2015 |
| The Theory of Everything | Elaine Mason | 2014 |
| Keeping Rosy | Charlotte | 2014 |
| Inside No. 9 | Nadia | 2014 |
| Run & Jump | Vanetia | 2013 |
| Svengali | Angie | 2013 |
| Animal Heroes | Self - Narrator | 2013 |
| Victoria Wood's Nice Cup of Tea | Twinkle | 2013 |
| The Village | Grace Middleton | 2013 |
| Private Peaceful | Hazel Peaceful | 2012 |
| Room at the Top | Alice Aisgill | 2012 |
| The Hollow Crown | Doll Tearsheet | 2012 |
| Best Laid Plans | Isabel | 2012 |
| DeafBlind | Maggie | 2011 |
| Black Mirror | Bella | 2011 |
| Silk | Martha Costello QC / Martha Costello | 2011 |
| Edge | Elly | 2010 |
| The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister | Anne Lister | 2010 |
| CBeebies Bedtime Story | Self - Storyteller | 2009 |
| Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980 | Helen Marshall | 2009 |
| Criminal Justice II: Peter Moffat Interviews | Juliet Miller | 2009 |
| The Devil's Mistress | Elizabeth Lilburne | 2008 |
| Little Dorrit | Miss Wade | 2008 |
| Clubbed | Angela | 2008 |
| Criminal Justice | Juliet Miller | 2008 |
| Hancock & Joan | Joan Le Mesurier | 2008 |
| Bike Squad | WPC Kate McFay | 2008 |
| Fairy Tales | Cindy Mellor | 2008 |
| I Am Bob | Marilyn Monroe / Marilyn Monroe Lookalike/Compere's Assistant | 2007 |
| Confessions of a Diary Secretary | Tracey Temple | 2007 |
| The Graham Norton Show | Self - Guest | 2007 |
| The Play's the Thing | Self / Claire | 2006 |
| See No Evil: The Moors Murders | Myra Hindley | 2006 |
| The Street | Madeleine | 2006 |
| Messiah: The Harrowing | DS Vickie Clarke | 2005 |
| Frozen | Ticket Attendant | 2005 |
| Christmas Lights | Pauline | 2004 |
| Marple | Jolly Bellever | 2004 |
| The Paul O'Grady Show | Herself | 2004 |
| Shameless | Veronica / Veronica Fisher | 2004 |
| Comedy Connections | Self | 2003 |
| Early Doors | Janice | 2003 |
| Timeshift | Herself - Narrator (voice) | 2002 |
| All or Nothing | Party Girl | 2002 |
| Hamilton Mattress | Lulu (voice) / Lulu | 2001 |
| The Way We Live Now | Ruby Ruggles | 2001 |
| Linda Green | Receptionist | 2001 |
| Victoria Wood: With All the Trimmings | Self | 2000 |
| Clocking Off | Marie Leach | 2000 |
| At Home with the Braithwaites | Trixie Fletcher | 2000 |
| Sunburn | Sue | 1999 |
| Holby City | Tanya Wilton | 1999 |
| Dinnerladies | Twinkle | 1998 |
| Picking up the Pieces | Lucy | 1998 |
| Girls' Night | Sharon | 1998 |
| Jonathan Creek | Marion Cretiss | 1997 |
| Dalziel and Pascoe | Dr. Allison Laurie | 1996 |
| Hetty Wainthropp Investigates | Photocopy Assistant | 1996 |
| Children's Ward | Geraldine | 1989 |
| The South Bank Show | Twinkle / Self | 1978 |
| Panorama | Self - Narrator (voice) | 1953 |
Producer Filmography
| Title | Year |
|---|
| Funny Cow | 2018 |
