Maxine Peake

Maxine Peake is starring in The Last Stand of Mrs. Mary Whitehouse at Nottingham Playhouse from 5 to 27 September 2025.

Maxine Peake recently starred in Doubt: A Parable at the Theatre Royal Bath.

Maxine Peake is an award-winning British actor.

Maxine Peake shot to fame in Victoria Wood’s BBC comedy Dinnerladies, and has gone on to appear in some of the most popular and acclaimed TV series of the last twenty years including Shameless, Silk, The Village, The Hollow Crown, Inside No. 9, Black Mirror, Three Girls, Anne, The Village and See No Evil.

Maxine’s upcoming TV projects include the Disney/FX TV series Say Nothing portraying Dolours Price and based on the bestselling book by based on the book by Patrick Radden Keefe.

On film, Maxine has starred in Mike Leigh’s Peterloo and films such as The Theory of Everything and Funny Cow. She will next be seen portraying Russian American investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya in the film Words of War, with Sean Penn executive producing, out in 2025.

Maxine Peake’s theatre credits include the title role in Hamlet, with other iconic credits including Miss Julie, Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire, Winnie in Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days and Hester Collyer in The Deep Blue Sea. Her theatre company MAAT (Music, Art, Activism and Theatre), co-founded with Sarah Frankcom and Imogen Knight, has now produced five plays that Maxine has starred in: Robin/Red/Breast, They, The Nico Project, The Skriker and The Masque of Anarchy.

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