Keeley Hawes
Birthday: 1976-02-10 | Place of Birth: London, England, UKKeeley 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.
Known For
Acting
Role
as Susannah Zellaby
as Alice
as Patricia Neal
as Beatrice
as DCI Caroline Goode
as Julia Morley
as Kathleen Shaw
as Lydia
as Priscilla Garrick
as Julia Montague
as Narrator
as Louisa Durrell
as Samantha Mollison
as Wendy Snow
as Gemma Webster
as Catherine Mundi
as Jennifer
as Jennifer
as Mrs Todhunter
as DSI Martha Lawson
as Lady Agnes Holland
as Alex Drake
as Jesse Scott
as Narrator
as Jane
as Nicola Graham
as Elizabeth Shandy / Keeley Hawes