
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.

as Self

as The Englishwoman (voice)

as Narrator

as Dottie

as Anna Politkovskaya

as Self

as Helen

as Tish Murtha (voice)

as Barbara

as Fiona Lacey

as Irmgard Klaxon (voice)

as Narrator (voice)

as Scoot Piccolo

as Self- Presenter

as Alix

as Self - Narrator

as Miriam

as Fanny Lye

as Judy

as Nellie

as Elen

as Friedrich Engels (voice)

as Funny Cow

as Narrator (voice)

as Sarah

as Emma

as Self (archive footage)

as Narrator

as Titania

as Rebekah Brooks

as Grown Up Mia

as Eileen Lamont

as Hamlet

as Jane

as Helen Bach

as Elaine Mason

as Charlotte

as Vanetia

as Celia

as Angie

as Mother

as Hazel Peaceful

as Isabel

as Maggie

as Elly

as Pauline

as Anne Lister

as Helen Marshall

as Angela

as Joan Le Mesurier

as WPC Kate McFay

as George's Mum

as Marilyn Monroe Lookalike/Compere's Assistant

as Tracey Temple

as Ticket Attendant

as Linda

as Pauline

as Party girl

as Lulu (voice)

as Sharon