Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1976-02-10 (Age: 50)
Place of Birth
London, England, UK
Keeley Hawes
Biography
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 (37)
Scoop
2024
To Olivia
2021
Rebecca
2020
Misbehaviour
2020
What The Durrells Did Next
2019
The Coronation
2018
Never Land
2017Fungus The Bogeyman
2015
High-Rise
2015
The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box
2013
The Lady Vanishes
2013
Code-Breakers: Bletchley Park's Lost Heroes
2011
Kate and William: A Royal Love Story
2011
The Making of... Ashes to Ashes
2009
