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Keeley Hawes

10th February 1976 London, England, UK Acting

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.

36 Movies 60 TV Shows 99 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

Scoop poster
Scoop 27th March 2024 as Amanda Thirsk
Lucky Jim poster
Lucky Jim 11th April 2003 as Christine Callaghan
Othello poster
Othello 23rd December 2001 as Dessie Brabant
Hotel! poster
Hotel! 17th February 2001 as Tricia
Airborne poster
Airborne 22nd December 2024 as Self - Narrator
Honour poster
Honour 28th September 2020 as DCI Caroline Goode
Traitors poster
Traitors 17th February 2019 as Priscilla Garrick
Identity poster
Identity 5th July 2010 as DSI Martha Lawson
Spooks poster
Spooks 13th May 2002 as Zoe Reynolds
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Karaoke 28th April 1996 as Linda Langer