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Acting

Maxine Peake

Career: Active from 1998 to 2026, busiest in 2018 with 7 main titles.

Leading roles: 52
top three billing

Average score: 66/100

Highest rated: Tish
91/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 53 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Maxine Peake Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Physical Comedy
1.2, average 2.4
Pop Culture
1.1, average 2.2
Fantasy
0.8, average 1.7
Absurdist Humor
1.2, average 2.0

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character Study 6
Social Commentary 6
Biographical Drama 5
Moral Ambiguity 4
Psychological Drama 4
Historical Drama 4
Period Piece 4
Character-Driven 4
Psychological Tension 3
British Humor 3
Social Justice 3
Gritty Realism 3

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

101

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

Upcoming

1 title

First Day on Earth

TV show · as Helen

2020s

26 titles · average score 71

Last Seen

74

TV show · as Jenna Reid

Bait

79

TV show · as Helen

I Swear

84

as Dottie

Words of War

72

as Anna Politkovskaya

Say Nothing

82

TV show · as Older Dolours Price

Woken

36

as Helen

Tish

91

as Tish Murtha (voice)

Choked Up

as Fiona Lacey

Dance First

43

as Barbara

Anne

71

TV show · as Anne Williams

Rules of the Game

60

TV show · as Sam Thompson

Star Wars: Visions

77

TV show · as Kalina Kalfus (voice)

2010s

40 titles · average score 67

Fanny Lye Deliver'd

67

as Fanny Lye

The Bisexual

71

TV show · as Sadie

Peterloo

61

as Nellie

Funny Cow

72

as Funny Cow

Gwen

56

as Elen

Three Girls

77

TV show · as Sara Rowbotham

Red Top

as Rebekah Brooks

The Falling

62

as Eileen Lamont

The Theory of Everything

76

as Elaine Mason

The Village

80

TV show · as Grace Middleton

Silk

75

TV show · as Martha Costello QC

The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister

68

as Anne Lister

2000s

26 titles · average score 69

Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980

82

as Helen Marshall

Clubbed

46

as Angela

Criminal Justice

63

TV show · as Juliet Miller

The Devil's Whore

68

TV show · as Elizabeth Lilburne

Hancock & Joan

as Joan Le Mesurier

Bike Squad

as WPC Kate McFay

Little Dorrit

85

TV show · as Miss Wade

Confessions of a Diary Secretary

as Tracey Temple

See No Evil: The Moors Murders

66

TV show · as Myra Hindley

Faith

as Linda

Shameless

77

TV show · as Veronica Fisher

Messiah

76

TV show · as DS Vickie Clarke

1990s

6 titles · average score 66

Sunburn

TV show · as Sue

dinnerladies

76

TV show · as Twinkle

Girls' Night

61

as Sharon

Jonathan Creek

77

TV show · as Marion Cretiss

Dalziel and Pascoe

69

TV show · as Dr Allison Laurie

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

49

TV show · as Photocopy Assistant

1980s

1 title · average score 67

ChuckleVision

67

TV show

1970s

1 title · average score 63

The South Bank Show

63

TV show