Maxine Peake
Year Title Role Notes
1996 Hetty Wainthropp Investigates Photocopy Assistant Episode : Fingers
1998 Picking Up the Pieces Lucy Episode : Episode No . 1.7
1998-2000 Dinnerladies Twinkle 16 episodes
1999 Sunburn Sue Episode : Episode No . 1.5
1999 Coronation Street Belinda Peach Episode : Episode No . 1.46352
1999 Jonathan Creek Marion Cretiss Episode : The Curious Tale of Mr. Spearfish
2000 Clocking Off Marie Leach Episode : The Leaches ' Story
2001 The Way We Live Now Ruby Ruggles 4 episodes
2001 Linda Green Receptionist Episode : Fitness Freak
2002 Holby City Tanya Wilton Episode : Pawns in the Game : Part 1
2002 Dalziel and Pascoe Dr. Allison Laurie Episode : Mens Sana
2003 At Home with the Braithwaites Trixie Fletcher Episode : Episode No . 4.3
2003 Early Doors Janice 4 episodes
2004 Christmas Lights Pauline TV movie
2004-2007 Shameless Veronica Ball Series regular ( series 1-3 ) , guest ( series 4 ) ; 27 episodes
2005 Faith Linda TV movie
2005 Messiah : The Harrowing DS Vickie Clarke
2006 See No Evil : The Moors Murders Myra Hindley TV movie
2007 Confessions of a Diary Secretary Tracey Temple TV movie
2008 Bike Squad WPC Kate McFay TV movie
Filmography -- Television
Maxine Peake (born 14 July 1974) is an English actress. She is best known for her roles as Twinkle in dinnerladies and Veronica Ball in Shameless, barrister Martha Costello in the BBC legal drama Silk, and Grace Middleton in the BBC drama series The Village, as well as starring in Black Mirror episode Metalhead. She is also an accomplished stage actress, having played the title role in Hamlet.