Keeley Hawes

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.

20 TV shows

TV Shows

Other Credits

This Morning, Friday Night with Jonathan Ross, Finding Alice, Spooks, Mutual Friends, Wives and Daughters, ShakespeaRe-Told, Tipping the Velvet, The Beggar Bride, Identity, The Murdoch Mysteries, Upstairs Downstairs, The Casual Vacancy, Mrs Wilson, It's a Sin, Fungus the Bogeyman, That Mitchell and Webb Look, Pie in the Sky, Forever Green, Crossfire, Stonehouse, The Story of the Costume Drama, Ambassadors, The Blonde Bombshell, Miss Austen, Doctor Who Extra, The Midwich Cuckoos, Traitors, Summer of Rockets, Year of the Rabbit, Honour, Orangutan Jungle School, Airborne, The One Show, Falling, Our Mutual Friend, Troublemakers, Karaoke, Canterbury Tales