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Starring:

Maxine Peake

  • First Movie - Girls Night 1998
  • Last Movie - Words of War 2025
  • Total Movies - 36
  • Highest Grossing Movies
    • UK: The Theory of Everything (2014) - £21,502,825
    • US: The Theory of Everything (2014) - $35,893,537
    • World: The Theory of Everything (2014) - $123,726,688
  • Combined grosses
    • UK - £28.2 Million
    • US - $36.2 Million
    • Global - $128.7 Million
  • Highest Rated Movie - The Theory of Everything (2014) - 80%

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Year

I Swear

(Maxine Peake plays Dottie Achenbach)

Director(s):
Kirk Jones

Starring:
Robert Aramayo • Peter Mullan • Maxine Peake • Shirley Henderson • Scott Ellis Watson

2025

Reality Is Not Enough

(Maxine Peake plays Self - Narrator)

Director(s):
Paul Sng

Starring:
Irvine Welsh • Liam Neeson • Stephen Graham • Ruth Negga • Maxine Peake

2025

Words of War

(Maxine Peake plays Anna Politkovskaya)

Director(s):
James Strong • James Strong

Starring:
Maxine Peake • Maxine Peake • Ciarán Hinds • Ciarán Hinds • Jason Isaacs

2025

Words of War

(Maxine Peake plays Anna Politkovskaya)

Director(s):
James Strong • James Strong

Starring:
Maxine Peake • Maxine Peake • Ciarán Hinds • Ciarán Hinds • Jason Isaacs

2025

Tish

(Maxine Peake plays Tish Murtha (voice))

Director(s):
Paul Sng

Starring:
Maxine Peake • Shin-Fei Chen • Ella Murtha

2023

Dance First

(Maxine Peake plays Barbara)

Director(s):
James Marsh

Starring:
Aidan Gillen • Gabriel Byrne • Bronagh Gallagher • Maxine Peake • Robert Aramayo

2023

National Theatre Live: The Welkin

(Maxine Peake plays Lizzy Luke)

Director(s):
James MacDonald

Starring:
Natasha Cottriall • Daneka Etchells • Jenny Galloway • Haydn Gwynne • Zainab Hasan

2023

Woken

(Maxine Peake plays Helen)

Director(s):
Alan Friel

Starring:
Erin Kellyman • Maxine Peake • Peter McDonald • Ivanno Jeremiah • Oscar Coleman

2023

Wendell and Wild

(Maxine Peake plays Irmgard Klaxon)

Director(s):
Henry Selick

Starring:
Keegan-Michael Key • Jordan Peele • Angela Bassett • James Hong • Lyric Ross

2022

Fanny Lye Deliver'd

(Maxine Peake plays Fanny Lye)

Director(s):
Thomas Clay

Starring:
Maxine Peake • Charles Dance • Freddie Fox • Tanya Reynolds • Zak Adams

2019

Gwen

(Maxine Peake plays Elen)

Director(s):
William McGregor

Starring:
Maxine Peake • Richard Harrington • Eleanor Worthington-Cox • Kobna Holdbrook-Smith • Mark Lewis Jones

2019

Peterloo

(Maxine Peake plays Nellie)

Director(s):
Mike Leigh

Starring:
Rory Kinnear • Maxine Peake • Pearce Quigley • David Moorst • Rachel Finnegan

2018

Funny Cow

Director(s):
Adrian Shergold

Starring:
Maxine Peake • Stephen Graham • Paddy Considine • Alun Armstrong • Diane Morgan

2018

Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle

(Maxine Peake plays Narrator)

Director(s):
Paul Sng

Starring:
Rushanara Ali • Gary Barton • Joe Beaver • Sian Berry • Jason Browning

2017

A Midsummer Night's Dream

(Maxine Peake plays Titania)

Director(s):
David Kerr

Starring:
John Hannah • Matt Lucas • Nonso Anozie • Eleanor Matsuura • Maxine Peake

2016

The Comic Strip Presents Redtop

(Maxine Peake plays Rebekah Brooks)

Director(s):
Peter Richardson

Starring:
Maxine Peake • Russell Tovey • Stephen Mangan • Johnny Vegas • Harry Enfield

2016

The Falling

Director(s):
Carol Morley

Starring:
Maxine Peake • Maisie Williams • Florence Pugh • Anna Burnett • Greta Scacchi

2015

Maxine Peake As Hamlet 2014

Director(s):
Sarah Frankcom • Margaret Williams

Starring:
Maxine Peake • John Shrapnel • Barbara Marten • Gillian Bevan • Thomas Arnold

2015

The Theory of Everything

(Maxine Peake plays Elaine Mason)

Director(s):
James Marsh

Starring:
Eddie Redmayne • Felicity Jones • Tom Prior • Sophie Perry • Finlay Wright-Stephens
2014

Keeping Rosy

(Maxine Peake plays Charlotte)

Director(s):
Steve Reeves

Starring:
Maxine Peake • Brooke Skylar Baptist • Delta Storm Baptist • Sam Hoare • Tori Butler-Hart

2014

Run and Jump

(Maxine Peake plays Vanetia)

Director(s):
Steph Green

Starring:
Ciara Gallagher • Maxine Peake • Edward MacLiam • Will Forte • Ruth McCabe

2013

Svengali

Director(s):
John Hardwick

Starring:
Martin Freeman • Michael Socha • Vicky McClure • Maxine Peake • Matt Berry

2013

Private Peaceful

(Maxine Peake plays Hazel Peaceful)

Director(s):
Pat O'Connor

Starring:
Hero Fiennes Tiffin • George MacKay • John Lynch • Jack O'Connell • Eline Powell

2012

Best Laid Plans

Director(s):
David Blair

Starring:
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje • Stephen Graham • David O'Hara • Maxine Peake • Lee Ingleby

2012

Edge

(Maxine Peake plays Elly)

Director(s):
Carol Morley

Starring:
Maxine Peake • Joe Dempsie • Nichola Burley • Julie T. Wallace • Marjorie Yates

2010

The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister

(Maxine Peake plays Anne Lister)

Director(s):
James Kent

Starring:
Maxine Peake • Anna Madeley • Susan Lynch • Christine Bottomley • Gemma Jones

2010

Clubbed

Director(s):
Neil Thompson

Starring:
Mel Raido • Shaun Parkes • Scot Williams • Maxine Peake • Ronnie Fox

2009

Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1980

Director(s):
James Marsh

Starring:
Warren Clarke • Paddy Considine • James Fox • David Calder • Nicholas Woodeson

2009

Bike Squad

(Maxine Peake plays WPC Kate McFay)

Director(s):
Guy Jenkin

Starring:
Mark Addy • Maxine Peake • Darren Boyd • Hattie Morahan • Rhashan Stone

2008

Hancock and Joan

Director(s):
Richard Laxton

Starring:
Ken Stott • Maxine Peake • Alex Jennings • Don Gallagher • George Costigan

2008

Confessions of a Diary Secretary

(Maxine Peake plays Tracey Temple)

Director(s):
Andy Wilson

Starring:
Maxine Peake • Michael Crick • Eiji Kusuhara • Joanna Monro • John Henshaw

2007

Frozen

(Maxine Peake plays Ticket Attendant)

Director(s):
Juliet McKoen

Starring:
Shirley Henderson • Roshan Seth • Ger Ryan • Richard Armitage • Ralf Little

2005

Faith

(Maxine Peake plays Linda)

Director(s):
David Thacker

Starring:
Christine Tremarco • Maxine Peake • Jamie Draven • Adrian Bower • Jason Flemyng

2005

Christmas Lights

(Maxine Peake plays Pauline)

Director(s):
Paul Seed

Starring:
Robson Green • Nicola Stephenson • Mark Benton • Maxine Peake • Keith Clifford

2004

All Or Nothing

(Maxine Peake plays Party Girl)

Director(s):
Mike Leigh

Starring:
Alison Garland • Jean Ainslie • Timothy Spall • Badi Uzzaman • Parvez Qadir

2002

Girls Night

(Maxine Peake plays Sharon)

Director(s):
Nick Hurran

Starring:
Brenda Blethyn • Julie Walters • Kris Kristofferson • George Costigan • Philip Jackson

1998