Keeley Hawes

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.

Filmography (97 Appearances)

Falling

The Assassin

Miss Austen

Airborne

Orphan Black: Echoes

Scoop

Stonehouse

Crossfire

The Midwich Cuckoos

To Olivia

It's a Sin

Finding Alice

Rebecca

Honour

Misbehaviour

Year of the Rabbit

Summer of Rockets

What The Durrells Did Next

Traitors

Mrs Wilson

Bodyguard

Orangutan Jungle School

The Coronation

Never Land

The Durrells

Fungus The Bogeyman

Fungus the Bogeyman

High-Rise

The Casual Vacancy

The Missing

Doctor Who Extra

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Inside No. 9

The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box

Ambassadors

The Tunnel

The Lady Vanishes

The Hollow Crown

Line of Duty

Code-Breakers: Bletchley Park's Lost Heroes

Kate and William: A Royal Love Story

Upstairs Downstairs

Identity

The Making of... Ashes to Ashes

Mutual Friends

Flashbacks of a Fool

The Bank Job

Ashes to Ashes

10 Years of Tomb Raider: A GameTap Retrospective

The Story of the Costume Drama

Death at a Funeral

Would I Lie to You?

The Graham Norton Show

After Thomas

That Mitchell and Webb Look

The One Show

The Best Man

Under The Greenwood Tree

ShakespeaRe-Told: Macbeth

ShakespeaRe-Told

A Cock and Bull Story

Doctor Who

Agatha Christie's Marple

The Murdoch Mysteries: Poor Tom Is Cold

The Murdoch Mysteries

The Murdoch Mysteries: Except the Dying

Canterbury Tales

Chaos and Cadavers

Lucky Jim

Me & Mrs. Jones

Tipping the Velvet

A Is for Acid

Spooks

Othello

Richard & Judy

Friday Night with Jonathan Ross

Murder in Mind

Hotel!

Complicity

The Last September

Wives and Daughters

The Blonde Bombshell

The Cater Street Hangman

The Avengers

Our Mutual Friend

The Beggar Bride

The Beggar Bride

The Moonstone

Cold Lazarus

Karaoke

Pie in the Sky

Heartbeat

Troublemakers

Tricky Business

Forever Green

This Morning

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