Maxine Peake (* 14. Juli 1974) ist eine englische Bühnen-, Radio-, Film- und Fernsehschauspielerin, Dramatikerin, Produzentin, Regisseurin und politische Aktivistin. Bekannt wurde sie durch ihre Rolle als Twinkle in Victoria Woods Sitcom „Dinnerladies“. Seitdem spielte sie Veronica in der in Manchester spielenden Channel-4-Dramaserie „Shameless“, die Anwältin Martha Costello in der BBC-Anwaltsserie „Silk“ und Grace Middleton in „The Village“. Sie ist auch eine versierte Bühnenschauspielerin und verkörperte die Titelrolle in „Hamlet“ sowie eine Rolle in dem Film „Die Entdeckung der Unendlichkeit“ (2014). 2018 spielte sie die Hauptrolle in dem Film „Funny Cow“ und hatte eine Hauptrolle in Mike Leighs Epos „Peterloo“, einem Film, der ihr sehr am Herzen liegt.
Filmografie
Filme
2026 – Crackula
2026 – Becoming Victoria Wood
2025 – Laundreams
2025 – The Occupant of the Room
2025 – Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough
2025 – Verflucht Normal
2025 – Quiet on Set: The Class Division in the Film Industry?
2025 – Words of War
2024 – Art Matters
2024 – Woken
2023 – Tish
2023 – Dance First
2023 – Choked Up
2022 – Wendell & Wild
2022 – Inner Polar Bear
2022 – Lapushka!
2022 – Something Out of Nothing
2022 – The Real Anne: Unfinished Business
2021 – Where We Used to Meet
2020 – Surfaces
2020 – The Great Mountain Sheep Gather
2020 – It's Me
2019 – Die Erlösung der Fanny Lye
2019 – Be Still My Beating Heart
2019 – Judy
2018 – Peterloo
2018 – The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca
2018 – Gwen
2018 – Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels
2018 – Funny Cow
2018 – Der Mond · Unser ewiger Begleiter
2017 – The Priest
2017 – Men Who Sleep in Cars
2017 – Cake
2017 – Unseen
2017 – Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle
2017 – Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods
2016 – Generation '66
2016 – Ein Sommernachtstraum
2016 – Red Top
2016 – I Wish For You
2015 – The Falling
2015 – Hamlet
2015 – Strange Weather
2015 – The Shuttleworths
2014 – Die Entdeckung der Unendlichkeit
2014 – Keeping Rosy
2014 – Voll und ganz und mittendrin
2013 – Keeping Up with the Joneses
2013 – Svengali - Das Leben, die Liebe und die Musik
2013 – The Heart Fails Without Warning
2012 – Private Peaceful - Mein Bruder Charlie
2012 – Best Laid Plans
2011 – DeafBlind
2010 – Edge
2010 – Imaginary Friend
2010 – Die geheimen Tagebücher der Anne Lister
2009 – Yorkshire Killer: 1980
2008 – The Hooligan Club - Fear and Fight
2008 – Hancock & Joan
2008 – Bike Squad
2007 – Would Like To Meet
2007 – I Am Bob
2007 – Confessions of a Diary Secretary
2007 – The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2006 – The Fear of Trilogy
2006 – The Madness of the Dance
2005 – Die Eiskönigin – Völlig unverfroren
2005 – Faith
2004 – Christmas Lights
2002 – All or Nothing
2002 – Hamilton Mattress
2000 – Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
1998 – Girls' Night
Obsession: The Beryl Burton Story
The Bright Side Running Club Serien
2026 – Last Seen
2026 – Bait
2024 – The Haunted Season
2024 – Say Nothing
2024 – Secret Life of the Safari Park
2022 – Art That Made Us
2022 – Rules of the Game
2022 – Anne
2021 – Star Wars: Visionen
2020 – Mandy
2020 – Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
2018 – The Bisexual
2018 – Dinnerladies Diaries
2018 – The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
2017 – Three Girls – Warum glaubt uns niemand?
2017 – We Have Been Watching
2015 – Artsnight
2014 – Inside No. 9
2013 – The Village
2012 – Room at the Top
2012 – The Hollow Crown
2011 – Black Mirror
2011 – Silk
2009 – Yorkshire Killer
2008 – Die Mätresse Des Teufels
2008 – Klein Dorrit
2008 – Criminal Justice
2008 – Fairy Tales
2007 – The Alan Titchmarsh Show
2007 – The Graham Norton Show
2006 – The One Show
2006 – See No Evil: The Moors Murders
2006 – The Street
2004 – Shameless
2003 – Comedy Connections
2003 – Early Doors
2002 – Timeshift
2001 – Linda Green
2001 – Messias
2000 – Clocking Off
2000 – At Home with the Braithwaites
1999 – Sunburn
1998 – dinnerladies
1997 – Jonathan Creek
1996 – Dalziel and Pascoe
1996 – Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
1987 – ChuckleVision
1978 – The South Bank Show
First Day on Earth
The Unheard
Filme
2026 – Crackula
2026 – Becoming Victoria Wood
2025 – Laundreams
2025 – The Occupant of the Room
2025 – Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough
2025 – Verflucht Normal
2025 – Quiet on Set: The Class Division in the Film Industry?
2025 – Words of War
2024 – Art Matters
2024 – Woken
2023 – Tish
2023 – Dance First
2023 – Choked Up
2022 – Wendell & Wild
2022 – Inner Polar Bear
2022 – Lapushka!
2022 – Something Out of Nothing
2022 – The Real Anne: Unfinished Business
2021 – Where We Used to Meet
2020 – Surfaces
2020 – The Great Mountain Sheep Gather
2020 – It's Me
2019 – Die Erlösung der Fanny Lye
2019 – Be Still My Beating Heart
2019 – Judy
2018 – Peterloo
2018 – The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca
2018 – Gwen
2018 – Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels
2018 – Funny Cow
2018 – Der Mond · Unser ewiger Begleiter
2017 – The Priest
2017 – Men Who Sleep in Cars
2017 – Cake
2017 – Unseen
2017 – Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle
2017 – Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods
2016 – Generation '66
2016 – Ein Sommernachtstraum
2016 – Red Top
2016 – I Wish For You
2015 – The Falling
2015 – Hamlet
2015 – Strange Weather
2015 – The Shuttleworths
2014 – Die Entdeckung der Unendlichkeit
2014 – Keeping Rosy
2014 – Voll und ganz und mittendrin
2013 – Keeping Up with the Joneses
2013 – Svengali - Das Leben, die Liebe und die Musik
2013 – The Heart Fails Without Warning
2012 – Private Peaceful - Mein Bruder Charlie
2012 – Best Laid Plans
2011 – DeafBlind
2010 – Edge
2010 – Imaginary Friend
2010 – Die geheimen Tagebücher der Anne Lister
2009 – Yorkshire Killer: 1980
2008 – The Hooligan Club - Fear and Fight
2008 – Hancock & Joan
2008 – Bike Squad
2007 – Would Like To Meet
2007 – I Am Bob
2007 – Confessions of a Diary Secretary
2007 – The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2006 – The Fear of Trilogy
2006 – The Madness of the Dance
2005 – Die Eiskönigin – Völlig unverfroren
2005 – Faith
2004 – Christmas Lights
2002 – All or Nothing
2002 – Hamilton Mattress
2000 – Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
1998 – Girls' Night
Obsession: The Beryl Burton Story
The Bright Side Running Club Serien
2026 – Last Seen
2026 – Bait
2024 – The Haunted Season
2024 – Say Nothing
2024 – Secret Life of the Safari Park
2022 – Art That Made Us
2022 – Rules of the Game
2022 – Anne
2021 – Star Wars: Visionen
2020 – Mandy
2020 – Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
2018 – The Bisexual
2018 – Dinnerladies Diaries
2018 – The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
2017 – Three Girls – Warum glaubt uns niemand?
2017 – We Have Been Watching
2015 – Artsnight
2014 – Inside No. 9
2013 – The Village
2012 – Room at the Top
2012 – The Hollow Crown
2011 – Black Mirror
2011 – Silk
2009 – Yorkshire Killer
2008 – Die Mätresse Des Teufels
2008 – Klein Dorrit
2008 – Criminal Justice
2008 – Fairy Tales
2007 – The Alan Titchmarsh Show
2007 – The Graham Norton Show
2006 – The One Show
2006 – See No Evil: The Moors Murders
2006 – The Street
2004 – Shameless
2003 – Comedy Connections
2003 – Early Doors
2002 – Timeshift
2001 – Linda Green
2001 – Messias
2000 – Clocking Off
2000 – At Home with the Braithwaites
1999 – Sunburn
1998 – dinnerladies
1997 – Jonathan Creek
1996 – Dalziel and Pascoe
1996 – Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
1987 – ChuckleVision
1978 – The South Bank Show
First Day on Earth
The Unheard