Keeley Hawes
Known For
Acting
Born
1976-02-10 in London, England, UK
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.
Most Known For
Doctor Who
as Ms Delphox
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
Agatha Christie's Marple
as Phillipa Haymes
The One Show
as Self
Heartbeat
Heartbeat
as Michelle
Inside No. 9
as Louise
Line of Duty
as Lindsay Denton
Spooks
as Zoe Reynolds
Would I Lie to You?
as Self
Richard & Judy
as Self
The Durrells
as Louisa Durrell
The Hollow Crown
as Queen Elizabeth
Upstairs, Downstairs
Bodyguard
as Julia Montague
The Tunnel
as Suze Beaumont
The Missing
as Gemma Webster
Orphan Black: Echoes
as Kira Manning
An Audience with...
as Self