Keeley Hawes

Known for ActingBorn 1976-02-10 (age 50)London, England, UK

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Orangutan Jungle School

The Coronation

Line of Duty

Pie in the Sky

Murder in Mind

Inside No. 9

The Beggar Bride

It's a Sin

Code-Breakers: Bletchley Park's Lost Heroes

Me & Mrs. Jones

Bodyguard

Our Mutual Friend

Would I Lie to You?

Agatha Christie's Marple

That Mitchell and Webb Look

Ashes to Ashes

ShakespeaRe-Told: Macbeth

Spooks

Doctor Who

Fungus the Bogeyman

The Hollow Crown

Honour

The Tunnel

The Moonstone

The Durrells

Upstairs, Downstairs

Upstairs Downstairs

ShakespeaRe-Told

Airborne

The Missing

Wives and Daughters

The Graham Norton Show

Year of the Rabbit

Mrs Wilson

Heartbeat

To Olivia

Mutual Friends

The Assassin

Lucky Jim

Identity

Death at a Funeral

Orphan Black: Echoes

The Midwich Cuckoos

Ambassadors

Canterbury Tales

The Bank Job

Othello

A Is for Acid