Maxine Burth appeared on Coronation Street in five roles:
- Weatherfield General-based Nurse Sloane, on duty when Mike Baldwin was admitted following a heart attack in July 2000
- Social worker Viv Wright, appearing intermittently between August 2003 and May 2004
- The consultant who diagnosed David Platt's epilepsy in November 2010
- Social worker Nicola Waite in April 2013
- An obstetrician involved with Sinead Tinker's internal examination in October 2018 and a consultation with the heavily-pregnant Gemma Winter and her parter Chesney Brown in September 2019.
She graduated from Rose Bruford College in 1989.
Her other credits include roles in The House of Windsor, Band of Gold, Emmerdale, Blue Murder, Doctors, Ideal, EastEnders, Boy Meets Girl, Last Tango in Halifax, The Driver and Brassic, along with the films Girls' Night, Heart and To Know Him.