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Keeley Hawes

Keeley Hawes

Birthday: 1976-02-10 | Place of Birth: London, England, UK

Keeley Hawes 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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2022
The Midwich Cuckoos

as    Susannah Zellaby

2021
Finding Alice

as    Alice

2021
To Olivia

as    Patricia Neal

2020
Rebecca

as    Beatrice

2020
Honour

as    DCI Caroline Goode

2020
Misbehaviour

as    Julia Morley

2019
Summer of Rockets

as    Kathleen Shaw

2019
Year of the Rabbit

as    Lydia

2019
Traitors

as    Priscilla Garrick

2018
Bodyguard

as    Julia Montague

2018
Orangutan Jungle School

as    Narrator

2016
The Durrells

as    Louisa Durrell

2015
The Casual Vacancy

as    Samantha Mollison

2015
Fungus the Bogeyman

as    Wendy Snow

2014
The Missing

as    Gemma Webster

2013
The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box

as    Catherine Mundi

2013
Ambassadors

as    Jennifer

2013
Ambassadors

as    Jennifer

2013
The Lady Vanishes

as    Mrs Todhunter

2010
Identity

as    DSI Martha Lawson

2010
Upstairs Downstairs

as    Lady Agnes Holland

2008
Ashes to Ashes

as    Alex Drake

2008
Flashbacks of a Fool

as    Jesse Scott

2007
Death at a Funeral

as    Jane

2006
After Thomas

as    Nicola Graham

2005
A Cock and Bull Story

as    Elizabeth Shandy / Keeley Hawes