Acting • AGE 51
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 ...


Bait
Helen
2026

Becoming Victoria Wood
Self
2026

Laundreams
2025

The Occupant of the Room
The Englishwoman (voice)
2025

Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough
Narrator
2025

I Swear
Dottie
2025

Quiet on Set: The Class Division in the Film Industry?
Self
2025

Words of War
Anna Politkovskaya
2025

The Haunted Season
The Englishwoman (voice)
2024

Say Nothing
Older Dolours Price
2024

Art Matters
Self
2024

Woken
Helen
2024

Secret Life of the Safari Park
Narrator
2024

Tish
Tish Murtha (voice)
2023

Dance First
Barbara
2023

Choked Up
Fiona Lacey
2023

Wendell & Wild
Irmgard Klaxon (voice)
2022

Lapushka!
Scoot Piccolo
2022

Something Out of Nothing
2022

Incompatible
Director
2022

Art That Made Us
Self - Actrice (Rules of the Game, Anne)
2022

Rules of the Game
Sam Thompson
2022

The Real Anne: Unfinished Business
Self- Presenter
2022

Anne
Anne Williams
2022

Where We Used to Meet
2021

Star Wars: Visions
Kalina Kalfus (voice)
2021

Doughnut
Thanks
2021

Mandy
Susan Blower
2020

Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
Miss Fozzard
2020

Surfaces
Alix
2020

The Great Mountain Sheep Gather
Self - Narrator
2020

It's Me
Miriam
2020

Fanny Lye Deliver'd
Fanny Lye
2019

Judy
Judy
2019

Peterloo
Nellie
2018

The Bisexual
Sadie
2018

The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca
Self
2018

Gwen
Elen
2018

Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Engels (voice)
2018

Funny Cow
Funny Cow
2018

Dinnerladies Diaries
Self
2018

The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
Self - Guest
2018

Wonders of the Moon
Narrator (voice)
2018

The Priest
2017

Men Who Sleep in Cars
Sarah
2017

Cake
2017

Unseen
Emma
2017

Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle
Narrator
2017

Three Girls
Sara Rowbotham
2017

Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods
Self (archive footage)
2017

We Have Been Watching
Self
2017

Generation '66
Narrator
2016

A Midsummer Night's Dream
Titania
2016

Red Top
Rebekah Brooks
2016

I Wish For You
Grown Up Mia
2016

The Falling
Eileen Lamont
2015

Hamlet
Hamlet
2015

Strange Weather
Jane
2015

The Shuttleworths
Helen Bach
2015

The Theory of Everything
Elaine Mason
2014

Keeping Rosy
Charlotte
2014

Inside No. 9
Nadia
2014

Run & Jump
Vanetia
2014

Keeping Up with the Joneses
Celia
2013

Svengali
Angie
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
2011

Edge
Elly
2010

The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
Anne Lister
2010

Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
Helen Marshall
2009

Red Riding
2009

The Devil's Whore
Elizabeth Lilburne
2008

Little Dorrit
Miss Wade
2008

Clubbed
Angela
2008

Criminal Justice
Juliet Miller
2008

Hancock & Joan
Joan Le Mesurier
2008

Fairy Tales
Cindy Mellor
2008

Bike Squad
WPC Kate McFay
2008

The Graham Norton Show
Self
2007

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
Self
2007

The One Show
Self - Guest
2006

See No Evil: The Moors Murders
Myra Hindley
2006

The Street
2006

The Fear of Trilogy
2006

Frozen
Ticket Attendant
2005

Faith
Linda
2005

Christmas Lights
Pauline
2004

Shameless
Veronica Fisher
2004

Comedy Connections
2003

Early Doors
Janice
2003

All or Nothing
Party girl
2002

Timeshift
Self - Narrator
2002

Hamilton Mattress
Lulu (voice)
2002

Linda Green
Receptionist
2001

Messiah
DS Vickie Clarke
2001

Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
Self
2000

Clocking Off
Marie Leach
2000

Sunburn
Sue
1999

dinnerladies
Twinkle
1998

Girls' Night
Sharon
1998

Jonathan Creek
Marion Cretiss
1997

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
Photocopy Assistant
1996

ChuckleVision
1987

Twisting My Melon
Linda Ryder