Keeley Hawes
ActingKeeley 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
The Bank Job
Wendy Leather
Death at a Funeral
Jane
The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box
Catherine Mundi
Rebecca
Beatrice
Scoop
Amanda Thirsk
High-Rise
Ann Royal
The Avengers
Tamara
The Lady Vanishes
Laura Parmiter aka Mrs Todhunter
Misbehaviour
Julia Morley
Flashbacks of a Fool
Jesse Scott
Filmography — Acting
The Bank Job
Wendy Leather
Death at a Funeral
Jane
The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box
Catherine Mundi
Rebecca
Beatrice
Scoop
Amanda Thirsk
High-Rise
Ann Royal
The Avengers
Tamara
The Lady Vanishes
Laura Parmiter aka Mrs Todhunter
Misbehaviour
Julia Morley
Flashbacks of a Fool
Jesse Scott
Complicity
Yvonne
A Cock and Bull Story
Elizabeth Shandy / Keeley Hawes
Othello
Dessie Brabant
To Olivia
Patricia Neal
The Last September
Lois Farquar
Hotel!
Tricia
After Thomas
Nicola Graham
ShakespeaRe-Told: Macbeth
Ella Macbeth
The Best Man
Kate Sheldrake
The Coronation
Self - Narrator (voice)
Under The Greenwood Tree
Fancy Day
A Is for Acid
Gillian Rogers
The Cater Street Hangman
Charlotte Ellison
Never Land
Sarah
Fungus The Bogeyman
The Making of... Ashes to Ashes
Herself
The Murdoch Mysteries: Poor Tom Is Cold
Dr. Julia Ogden
The Murdoch Mysteries: Except the Dying
Dr. Julia Ogden
Me & Mrs. Jones
Jane
The Beggar Bride
Angela Harper
Chaos and Cadavers
Samantha Taggert
Lucky Jim
Christine Callaghan
The Moonstone
Rachel Verinder
What The Durrells Did Next
Herself - Host
10 Years of Tomb Raider: A GameTap Retrospective
Narrator
Kate and William: A Royal Love Story
Self - Narrator (voice)
Code-Breakers: Bletchley Park's Lost Heroes
Narrator