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Keeley Hawes
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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.
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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.
Known For
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Heartbeat
The Graham Norton Show
The One Show
Doctor Who
Inside No. 9
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Agatha Christie's Marple
It's a Sin
The Hollow Crown
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
Would I Lie to You?
ShakespeaRe-Told
Pie in the Sky
The Bank Job
The Avengers
Mrs Wilson
Spooks
Karaoke
Line of Duty
Scoop
Rebecca
Death at a Funeral
Wives and Daughters
Mutual Friends
The Missing
The Lady Vanishes
Orphan Black: Echoes
Canterbury Tales
Spy Ops
The Casual Vacancy
The Moonstone
Bodyguard
Traitors
Macbeth
The Assassin
Upstairs Downstairs
Under The Greenwood Tree
Ashes to Ashes
Miss Austen
The Beggar Bride
The Midwich Cuckoos
Crossfire
The Beggar Bride
Production Credits
Crossfire
Miss Austen
The Assassin
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