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

Murder in Mind

Pie in the Sky

Inside No. 9

The Beggar Bride

It's a Sin

Me & Mrs. Jones

Bodyguard

Agatha Christie's Marple

Would I Lie to You?

Code-Breakers: Bletchley Park's Lost Heroes

Ashes to Ashes

Our Mutual Friend

That Mitchell and Webb Look

ShakespeaRe-Told: Macbeth

Spooks

Doctor Who

The Durrells

Fungus the Bogeyman

What The Durrells Did Next

The Tunnel

The Moonstone

Honour

Upstairs, Downstairs

The Hollow Crown

Upstairs Downstairs

Airborne

ShakespeaRe-Told

The Missing

The Graham Norton Show

Wives and Daughters

Mrs Wilson

Year of the Rabbit

Orphan Black: Echoes

The Assassin

Heartbeat

To Olivia

Mutual Friends

Lucky Jim

Identity

Ambassadors

Death at a Funeral

The Bank Job

Canterbury Tales

Othello

A Is for Acid