Keeley Hawes

Birthday:

02/10/1976

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.



Credits

Scoop (2024)
Amanda Thirsk
To Olivia (2021)
Patricia Neal
Rebecca (2020)
Beatrice
Misbehaviour (2020)
Julia Morley
What The Durrells Did Next (2019)
Herself - Host
The Coronation (2018)
Narrator
Never Land (2017)
Sarah
Fungus The Bogeyman (2015)
High-Rise (2015)
Ann Royal
The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box (2013)
Catherine Mundi
The Lady Vanishes (2013)
Mrs Todhunter
Kate and William: A Royal Love Story (2011)
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Making of... Ashes to Ashes (2009)
Herself
Flashbacks of a Fool (2008)
Jesse Scott
The Bank Job (2008)
Wendy Leather
10 Years of Tomb Raider: A GameTap Retrospective (2008)
Narrator
Death at a Funeral (2007)
Jane
After Thomas (2006)
Nicola Graham
The Best Man (2006)
Kate Sheldrake
Under The Greenwood Tree (2005)
Fancy Day
Macbeth (2005)
Ella Macbeth
A Cock and Bull Story (2005)
Elizabeth Shandy / Keeley Hawes
The Murdoch Mysteries: Poor Tom Is Cold (2004)
Dr. Julia Ogden
The Murdoch Mysteries: Except the Dying (2004)
Dr. Julia Ogden
Chaos and Cadavers (2003)
Samantha Taggert
Lucky Jim (2003)
Christine Callaghan
Me and Mrs. Jones (2003)
Jane
A Is for Acid (2002)
Gillian Rogers
Othello (2001)
Dessie Brabant
Hotel! (2001)
Tricia
Complicity (2000)
Yvonne
The Last September (2000)
Lois Farquar
The Cater Street Hangman (1998)
Charlotte Ellison
The Avengers (1998)
Tamara
The Beggar Bride (1997)
Angela Harper
The Moonstone (1996)
Rachel Verinder