Keeley Hawes
Born: 1976-02-10 in London, England, UK
Known For: Acting
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
2025
- The Assassin as Julie Green
- Miss Austen as Cassandra Austen
2024
- Orphan Black: Echoes as Kira Manning
- Scoop as Amanda Thirsk
- Airborne as Self - Narrator
2023
- Stonehouse as Barbara Stonehouse
2022
- The Midwich Cuckoos as Susannah Zellaby
- Crossfire as Jo
2021
- It's a Sin as Valerie Tozer
- Finding Alice as Alice
- To Olivia as Patricia Neal
2020
- Rebecca as Beatrice
- Misbehaviour as Julia Morley
- Honour as DCI Caroline Goode
2019
- Year of the Rabbit as Lydia
- Traitors as Priscilla Garrick
- Summer of Rockets as Kathleen Shaw
- What The Durrells Did Next as Herself - Host
2018
- Bodyguard as Julia Montague
- Mrs Wilson as Dorothy Wick
- Orangutan Jungle School as Narrator
- The Coronation as Self - Narrator (voice)
2017
- Never Land as Sarah
2016
- The Durrells as Louisa Durrell
2015
- High-Rise as Ann Royal
- The Casual Vacancy as Samantha Mollison
- Fungus the Bogeyman as Wendy Snow
- Fungus The Bogeyman
2014
- Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
- Inside No. 9 as Louise
- The Missing as Gemma Webster
- Doctor Who Extra as Self
2013
- The Tunnel as Suze Beaumont
- Ambassadors as Jennifer
- The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box as Catherine Mundi
- The Lady Vanishes as Laura Parmiter aka Mrs Todhunter
2012
- Line of Duty as Lindsay Denton
- The Hollow Crown as Queen Elizabeth
2011
- Code-Breakers: Bletchley Park's Lost Heroes as Narrator
- Kate and William: A Royal Love Story as Self - Narrator (voice)
2010
- Upstairs Downstairs as Lady Agnes Holland
- Identity as DSI Martha Lawson
2009
- The Making of... Ashes to Ashes as Herself
2008
- Ashes to Ashes as Alex Drake
- The Bank Job as Wendy Leather
- Flashbacks of a Fool as Jesse Scott
- Mutual Friends as Jen Grantham
- The Story of the Costume Drama as Herself - Narrator
- 10 Years of Tomb Raider: A GameTap Retrospective as Narrator
2007
- The Graham Norton Show as Self
- Would I Lie to You? as Self
- Death at a Funeral as Jane
2006
- The One Show as Self
- That Mitchell and Webb Look as Keeley Hawes
- After Thomas as Nicola Graham
- The Best Man as Kate Sheldrake
2005
- Doctor Who as Ms Delphox
- ShakespeaRe-Told
- A Cock and Bull Story as Elizabeth Shandy / Keeley Hawes
- ShakespeaRe-Told: Macbeth as Ella Macbeth
- Under The Greenwood Tree as Fancy Day
2004
- Agatha Christie's Marple as Phillipa Haymes
- The Murdoch Mysteries as Dr. Julia Ogden
- The Murdoch Mysteries: Poor Tom Is Cold as Dr. Julia Ogden
- The Murdoch Mysteries: Except the Dying as Dr. Julia Ogden
2003
- Canterbury Tales as Emily
- Me & Mrs. Jones as Jane
- Lucky Jim as Christine Callaghan
- Chaos and Cadavers as Samantha Taggert
2002
- Spooks as Zoe Reynolds
- Tipping the Velvet as Kitty Butler
- A Is for Acid as Gillian Rogers
2001
- Richard & Judy as Self
- Murder in Mind as Deborah
- Friday Night with Jonathan Ross as Self - Guest
- Hotel! as Tricia
- Othello as Dessie Brabant
2000
- Complicity as Yvonne
- The Last September as Lois Farquar
1999
- Wives and Daughters as Cynthia Kirkpatrick
- The Blonde Bombshell as Diana Fluck / Diana Dors
1998
- The Avengers as Tamara
- Our Mutual Friend as Elizabeth 'Lexie' Hexam
- The Cater Street Hangman as Charlotte Ellison
1997
- The Beggar Bride as Angela Harper
- The Beggar Bride as Angela Harper
1996
- Karaoke as Linda Langer
- The Moonstone as Rachel Verinder
1994
- Pie in the Sky as Stella Jackson
1992
1990
- Troublemakers as Mandy Harper
1989
- Forever Green as Carol
1988
- This Morning as Self - Guest
1978
- An Audience with... as Self