Maxine Peake
REPRESENTED BY MICHAEL DUFF
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Multiple BAFTA nominee Maxine Peake’s recent film credits include WORDS OF WAR as the late Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, and the multi-award-winning I SWEAR. 2026 will see Maxine co-starring in BERLIN NOIR and THE DISPATCHER (both for Apple TV+), and she will also feature in a lead role in Michaela Coel’s forthcoming and highly-anticipated FIRST DAY ON EARTH (BBC/HBO). In 2024, Maxine starred in FX/Disney+’s SAY NOTHING as the latter version of Dolours Price, earning her a fourth BAFTA nomination.
Other cinema credits include PETERLOO, THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING, FUNNY COW (on which Maxine served as Executive Producer through her production company, Vexed Pixie), WOKEN, DANCE FIRST, and FANNY LYE DELIVER’D.
Maxine is also very well-known for leading TV dramas such as SILK (BBC), BLACK MIRROR: METALHEAD (Netflix), THREE GIRLS (BBC), THE VILLAGE (BBC), SHAMELESS (Channel 4), THE BISEXUAL (Hulu/Channel 4), ANNE (ITV), and RULES OF THE GAME (BBC).
Stage credits include HAMLET, A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, and HAPPY DAYS (all Royal Exchange), ROBIN/RED/BREAST and THEY (Factory International), THE WELKIN (National Theatre), AVALANCHE (Barbican), and TALKING HEADS (Bridge Theatre, subsequently televised for the BBC). She has been nominated for a 2026 WhatsOnStage Award for Best Performer in a Play for THE LAST STAND OF MARY WHITEHOUSE (Nottingham Playhouse).