Keeley Hawes
Acting
- Born:
- 1976-02-10
- Place of birth:
- London, England, UK
Biography
Keeley Hawes (born 10 February 1976) is an English actress, born in London and educated at the Sylvia Young Theatre School. She began her career in a number of literary adaptations, including Our Mutual Friend (1998), Wives and Daughters (1999), Tipping the Velvet (2002), and The Canterbury Tales (2003). She portrayed Zoe Reynolds in the BBC espionage drama series Spooks from 2002 to 2004, followed by her co-lead performance as Alex Drake in Ashes to Ashes (2008–2010), for which she won a Glamour Award. She played leading roles in the 2010 revival of Upstairs, Downstairs, the limited series The Casual Vacancy (2015), The Missing (2016), and the ITV comedy-drama The Durrells (2016–2019). Hawes was nominated for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for her performance in Jed Mercurio's police procedural Line of Duty as DI Lindsey Denton. She teamed again with Mercurio for the 2018 thriller Bodyguard in which she played Home Secretary Julia Montague. Hawes has also appeared in films, including Death at a Funeral (2007) and High-Rise (2015), and she provided the voice of Lara Croft in a series of Tomb Raider video games.
Known For
Filmography
Falling
The Assassin
Miss Austen
Airborne
Orphan Black: Echoes
Scoop
Stonehouse
Crossfire
The Midwich Cuckoos
To Olivia
It's a Sin
Finding Alice
Rebecca
Honour
Misbehaviour
Year of the Rabbit
Summer of Rockets
What The Durrells Did Next
Traitors
Mrs Wilson
Bodyguard
Orangutan Jungle School
The Coronation
Never Land
The Durrells
Fungus The Bogeyman
Fungus the Bogeyman
High-Rise
The Casual Vacancy
The Missing
Doctor Who Extra
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Inside No. 9
The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box
Ambassadors
The Tunnel
The Lady Vanishes
The Hollow Crown
Line of Duty
Code-Breakers: Bletchley Park's Lost Heroes
Kate and William: A Royal Love Story
Upstairs Downstairs
Identity
The Making of... Ashes to Ashes
Mutual Friends
Flashbacks of a Fool
The Bank Job
Ashes to Ashes
10 Years of Tomb Raider: A GameTap Retrospective
The Story of the Costume Drama
Death at a Funeral
Would I Lie to You?
The Graham Norton Show
After Thomas
That Mitchell and Webb Look
The One Show
The Best Man
Under The Greenwood Tree
ShakespeaRe-Told: Macbeth
ShakespeaRe-Told
A Cock and Bull Story
Doctor Who
Agatha Christie's Marple
The Murdoch Mysteries: Poor Tom Is Cold
The Murdoch Mysteries: Except the Dying
The Murdoch Mysteries
Canterbury Tales
Chaos and Cadavers
Lucky Jim
Me & Mrs. Jones
Tipping the Velvet
A Is for Acid
Spooks
Othello
Richard & Judy
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Murder in Mind
Hotel!
Complicity
The Last September
Wives and Daughters
The Blonde Bombshell
The Cater Street Hangman
The Avengers
Our Mutual Friend
The Beggar Bride
The Beggar Bride
The Moonstone
Cold Lazarus
Karaoke
Pie in the Sky
Don't Forget Your Toothbrush
Heartbeat
Troublemakers
Tricky Business
Forever Green
This Morning
An Audience with...
Upstairs, Downstairs