Keeley Hawes

Keeley Clare Julia 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 DI 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).

Keeley Hawes
Hawes in 2014
Born	Keeley Clare Julia Hawes (1976-02-10) 10 February 1976 Marylebone, London, England
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1989–present
Spouse(s)	Spencer McCallum ​ ( m. 2001; div. 2004) Matthew Macfadyen ( m. 2004)
Children	3

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.

Early life

Hawes was born at St Mary's Hospital, London, and grew up in a council flat in Marylebone.[1] While in sixth form at school she was approached in Oxford Street by a modelling scout and signed up by Select Model Management. A few months later, she moved to the other side of the fashion industry by working at Cosmopolitan before obtaining a grant and enrolling in the Sylvia Young Theatre School.[2] There she became friendly with Emma Bunton; they lived and travelled together for six months.[3][4][5]

Career

Hawes in 2008

Hawes featured in at least four music videos, for the singles "Saturday Night" by Suede, "Marvellous" by The Lightning Seeds, "Come Around" by The Mutton Birds, and "She's a Star" by James. She first came into the public eye in the 1990s, having supporting roles in Troublemakers, Dennis Potter's Karaoke (1995), Heartbeat (1995) and The Beggar Bride (1997).

"We're not an acting family, but my parents have always encouraged me. I'm sure my dad spreads the word about my programmes to everyone who gets in his cab, which must help the ratings!"[2]

Hawes appeared in several BBC adaptations of classic and modern literature, including Our Mutual Friend (1998), Wives and Daughters (1999), Tipping the Velvet (2002) and as the young Diana Dors in the biopic The Blonde Bombshell (1999). From 2002 to 2004, she appeared as Zoe Reynolds in the spy drama series Spooks. In 2003, she appeared in the BBC's re-telling of The Canterbury Tales. From 2006 to 2007, she appeared as Rosie in the British comedy The Vicar of Dibley. She was also cast as Jane in the 2007 comedy Death at a Funeral. In February 2006, it was revealed that Hawes had replaced Jonell Elliott as the voice of Lara Croft. She voiced the role in Tomb Raider: Legend, reprising her role in the 2007 remake of the original Tomb Raider game, Tomb Raider: Anniversary, and again in 2008's Tomb Raider: Underworld. She has also recorded her lines for the arcade-style Tomb Raider game Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light, released in 2010. She returned to voice Lara again in Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light sequel Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris, released in 2014.

In 2007, Hawes was cast as Alex Drake in Ashes to Ashes, the spin-off from the hit BBC series Life on Mars. It told the story of a female police officer in service with London's Metropolitan Police, who, after being shot in 2008, inexplicably regains consciousness in 1981, having assimilated Sam Tyler's fantasies after being imprisoned in a coma. The series, broadcast in 2008, follows her fighting to wake up from the world of 1981 so she can get back to the present day and save her daughter. She was awarded the Best UK Television Actress Award in 2008 by the Glamour Awards for her role.[6] In September 2009, Hawes filmed the final series. The finale aired in May and gained over seven million viewers.

In April 2008, Hawes began filming the BBC drama Mutual Friends and she appeared in That Mitchell and Webb Look. In 2009, she portrayed Det Supt Martha Lawson in a six-episode ITV series, Identity. In December 2010, she starred as Lady Agnes Holland in the three-episode relaunch of Upstairs, Downstairs. On 25 April 2011, Hawes narrated the documentary Kate and William: A Royal Love Story on BBC One, prior to the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton. On 20 June 2011, she narrated the ITV1 documentary Four of a Kind as part of ITV's Extraordinary Families season. She appeared as Catherine Mundi in the fantasy adventure film Mariah Mundi and the Midas Box.[7]

In 2014, she guest-starred as Ms. Delphox in the eighth series of Doctor Who.[8]

Her performance as Detective Inspector Lindsay Denton in the BBC Two drama Line of Duty (2014–2016), was described in The Daily Telegraph as "the performance of 2014".[9]

Hawes was number 38 on the 2018 Radio Times TV 100 list, determined by television executives and broadcasting veterans.[10]

Personal life

Hawes married DJ Spencer McCallum[11] in December 2001 when their son was almost two years old; they divorced in 2004.[12] She married Matthew Macfadyen in November 2004[13][14] and their daughter was born the following month.[15] Their second child was born in September 2006.[16]

Hawes was misquoted as stating that she is bisexual in 2002, after working on the television adaptation of Tipping the Velvet.[17][18] She later explained in Radio Times that "maybe what I meant is that everyone is a little bit bisexual…. I've been married twice, both times to men".[19]

Philanthropy

Hawes began working with UNICEF in 2012; in 2017 she became a UNICEF[20] ambassador. Her main focus has been visiting Syrian refugee children and families living in the Za’atari refugee camp and host communities in Amman.[21][22]

Awards

Hawes won the "Glamour Best UK Television Actress Award" in 2008 for her role in Ashes to Ashes. She was also nominated for a TV Choice Award for the same role, and for the Best Actress award at the 2009 Crime Thriller Awards.[23] She received a Leading Actress nomination for her role on Line of Duty at the 2015 British Academy Television Awards.[24] In 2019, she was nominated for the same award for Bodyguard and for Supporting Actress for Mrs Wilson.[25]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1996	The Moonstone	Rachel	Television film
1998	The Avengers	Tamara
1999	The Last September	Lois Farquar
2000	Complicity	Yvonne
2001	Othello	Dessie Brabant	Television film
2003	Chaos and Cadavers	Samantha Taggert
2005	A Cock and Bull Story	Elizabeth
2007	Death at a Funeral	Jane
2008	The Bank Job	Wendy Leather
	Flashbacks of a Fool	Adult Jessie
2013	Mariah Mundi and the Midas Box	Catherine Mundi
2015	High-Rise	Ann Royal
2020	Misbehaviour	Julia Morley
	Rebecca	Beatrice	Post-production
TBA	An Unquiet Life	Patricia Neal	Post-production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1989	Forever Green	Carol	Episode 3 (Series 1)
1990	Troublemakers	Mandy	6 episodes
1992	The Ruth Rendell Mysteries	Sarah Mabledene	"Talking to Strange Men"
1996	Pie in the Sky	Stella Jackson	E"Devils on Horseback: Parts 1 & Part 2"
	Karaoke	Linda Langer	"Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday"
	Heartbeat	Michelle	"Snapped" series 6 episode 7
1997	The Beggar Bride	Angela Harper
1998	Our Mutual Friend	Lizzie Hexam	4 episodes
	The Cater Street Hangman	Charlotte Ellison
1999	The Blonde Bombshell	Younger Diana Dors
	Wives and Daughters	Cynthia Kirkpatrick	4 episodes
2001	Hotel!	Tricia
	Murder in Mind	Deborah	"Sleeper"
2002	A Is for Acid	Gillian Rogers
	Me and Mrs Jones	Jane
	Tipping the Velvet	Kitty Butler
2002–2004	Spooks	Zoe Reynolds
2003	Lucky Jim	Christine Callaghan
	The Canterbury Tales	Emily
2004	Sex & Lies	Kate
	Murdoch Mysteries	Dr. Julia Ogden	Episodes: "Except the Dying" & "Poor Tom Is Cold"
2005	ShakespeaRe-Told	Ella Macbeth	"Macbeth"
	Agatha Christie's Marple	Philippa Haymes	"A Murder Is Announced"
	Under the Greenwood Tree	Fancy Day
	The Best Man	Kate Sheldrake
2006	After Thomas	Nicola Graham
2006–2007	The Vicar of Dibley	Rosie Kennedy	"The Handsome Stranger" & "The Vicar in White"
2008–2010	Ashes to Ashes	DI Alex Drake	Main role
2009	Mutual Friends	Jen
2010	Identity	DSI Martha Lawson
2010–2012	Upstairs, Downstairs	Lady Agnes Holland	Main role
2013	The Lady Vanishes	Mrs Todhunter	Television film
	The Tunnel	Suze Harcourt
	Ambassadors	Jennifer
2014–2016	Line of Duty	DI Lindsay Denton	Main role
2014	Doctor Who	Ms. Delphox/Madame Karabraxos	"Time Heist"
2015	The Casual Vacancy	Samantha Mollison	Miniseries
2016	Fungus The Bogeyman	Wendy Snow	Sky One Miniseries
	The Hollow Crown	Queen Elizabeth	"Henry VI Part 2" & "Richard III"
	The Missing	Gemma Webster	Main role
2016–2019	The Durrells	Louisa Durrell
2017	Inside No. 9	Louise	"Diddle Diddle Dumpling"
2018	The Coronation	Narrator	Voice role
	Bodyguard	Julia Montague	Main role
	Mrs Wilson	Dorothy Wick	Miniseries
2019	Traitors	Priscilla Garrick	Main role
	Summer of Rockets	Kathleen Shaw	Miniseries
	Year of the Rabbit	Lydia
TBC	Finding Alice	Alice	TV Series

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Venue
2011	Rocket to the Moon	Belle	Royal National Theatre
2013	Barking in Essex	Chrissie	Wyndham's Theatre

Video games

Year	Title	Voice role
2006	Tomb Raider: Legend	Lara Croft
2007	Tomb Raider: Anniversary
2008	Tomb Raider: Underworld
2009	Tomb Raider: Underworld – Beneath the Ashes
	Tomb Raider: Underworld – Lara's Shadow
2010	Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
2014	Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris

References

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6. "All the winners from the Glamour Women of the Year Awards 2008 (Glamour.com UK)". Archived from the original on 13 December 2014. Retrieved 12 December 2014.
7. Adam Dawtrey (11 April 2012). Aneurin Barnard tapped for 'Mariah Mundi'. Variety Article. Retrieved 30 July 2012.
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11. "International DJ Producer". DJ Spencer Mac. Retrieved 8 May 2017.
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External links

• Keeley Hawes on Twitter
• Keeley Hawes on IMDb 
• Keeley Hawes (interview) - BBC Spooks
• Keeley Hawes Interview - Ashes to Ashes, Sky UK