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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.
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Bait
as Helen

Becoming Victoria Wood
as Self

Laundreams

The Occupant of the Room
as The Englishwoman (voice)

Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough
as Narrator

I Swear
as Dottie

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

Words of War
as Anna Politkovskaya

The Haunted Season
as The Englishwoman (voice)

Say Nothing
as Older Dolours Price

Art Matters
as Self

Woken
as Helen

Secret Life of the Safari Park
as Narrator

Tish
as Tish Murtha (voice)

Dance First
as Barbara

Choked Up
as Fiona Lacey

Wendell & Wild
as Irmgard Klaxon (voice)
Inner Polar Bear
as Narrator (voice)

Lapushka!
as Scoot Piccolo

Something Out of Nothing

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

Rules of the Game
as Sam Thompson

The Real Anne: Unfinished Business
as Self- Presenter

Anne
as Anne Williams

Where We Used to Meet

Star Wars: Visions
as Kalina Kalfus (voice)

Mandy
as Susan Blower

Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
as Miss Fozzard

Surfaces
as Alix

The Great Mountain Sheep Gather
as Self - Narrator

It's Me
as Miriam

Fanny Lye Deliver'd
as Fanny Lye
Be Still My Beating Heart

Judy
as Judy

Peterloo
as Nellie

The Bisexual
as Sadie

The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca
as Self

Gwen
as Elen

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

Funny Cow
as Funny Cow

Dinnerladies Diaries
as Self

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

Wonders of the Moon
as Narrator (voice)

The Priest

Men Who Sleep in Cars
as Sarah

Cake

Unseen
as Emma

Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle
as Narrator

Three Girls
as Sara Rowbotham

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

We Have Been Watching
as Self

Generation '66
as Narrator

A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Titania

Red Top
as Rebekah Brooks

I Wish For You
as Grown Up Mia

The Falling
as Eileen Lamont

Hamlet
as Hamlet
Artsnight
as Self - Presenter

Strange Weather
as Jane