Keeley Hawes
Acting • Born 1976-02-10
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
98 credits
Death at a Funeral
Movie • 2007
Jane
Scoop
Movie • 2024
Amanda Thirsk
A Cock and Bull Story
Movie • 2005
Elizabeth Shandy / Keeley Hawes
Complicity
Movie • 2000
Yvonne
The Bank Job
Movie • 2008
Wendy Leather
The Avengers
Movie • 1998
Tamara
Flashbacks of a Fool
Movie • 2008
Jesse Scott
After Thomas
Movie • 2006
Nicola Graham
The Last September
Movie • 2000
Lois Farquar
Under The Greenwood Tree
Movie • 2005
Fancy Day
The Moonstone
Movie • 1996
Rachel Verinder
Othello
Movie • 2001
Dessie Brabant
The Beggar Bride
Movie • 1997
Angela Harper
Kate and William: A Royal Love Story
Movie • 2011
Self - Narrator (voice)
A Is for Acid
Movie • 2002
Gillian Rogers
The Best Man
Movie • 2006
Kate Sheldrake
The Lady Vanishes
Movie • 2013
Laura Parmiter aka Mrs Todhunter
The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box
Movie • 2013
Catherine Mundi
10 Years of Tomb Raider: A GameTap Retrospective
Movie • 2008
Narrator
Chaos and Cadavers
Movie • 2003
Samantha Taggert
Never Land
Movie • 2017
Sarah
Hotel!
Movie • 2001
Tricia
High-Rise
Movie • 2015
Ann Royal
Fungus The Bogeyman
Movie • 2015
Lucky Jim
Movie • 2003
Christine Callaghan
The Cater Street Hangman
Movie • 1998
Charlotte Ellison
Code-Breakers: Bletchley Park's Lost Heroes
Movie • 2011
Narrator
Me & Mrs. Jones
Movie • 2003
Jane
The Coronation
Movie • 2018
Self - Narrator (voice)
Misbehaviour
Movie • 2020
Julia Morley
ShakespeaRe-Told: Macbeth
Movie • 2005
Ella Macbeth
Rebecca
Movie • 2020
Beatrice
The Murdoch Mysteries: Except the Dying
Movie • 2004
Dr. Julia Ogden
The Murdoch Mysteries: Poor Tom Is Cold
Movie • 2004
Dr. Julia Ogden
What The Durrells Did Next
Movie • 2019
Herself - Host
To Olivia
Movie • 2021
Patricia Neal
The Making of... Ashes to Ashes
Movie • 2009
Herself
ShakespeaRe-Told: Macbeth
Movie
Ella Macbeth
Upstairs, Downstairs
TV • 1971
This Morning
TV • 1988
Self - Guest
Ashes to Ashes
TV • 2008
Alex Drake
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
TV • 2001
Self - Guest
Finding Alice
TV • 2021
Alice
Heartbeat
TV • 1992
Richard & Judy
TV • 2001
Self
Spooks
TV • 2002
Zoe Reynolds
Would I Lie to You?
TV • 2007
Self
Mutual Friends
TV • 2008
Jen Grantham
Wives and Daughters
TV • 1999
Cynthia Kirkpatrick
ShakespeaRe-Told
TV • 2005
Tipping the Velvet
TV • 2002
Kitty Butler
Canterbury Tales
TV • 2003
Emily
The Beggar Bride
TV • 1997
Angela Harper
Identity
TV • 2010
DSI Martha Lawson
The Murdoch Mysteries
TV • 2004
Dr. Julia Ogden
Line of Duty
TV • 2012
Lindsay Denton
Upstairs Downstairs
TV • 2010
Lady Agnes Holland
Doctor Who
TV • 2005
Ms Delphox
The Tunnel
TV • 2013
Suze Beaumont
The Casual Vacancy
TV • 2015
Samantha Mollison
Mrs Wilson
TV • 2018
Dorothy Wick
It's a Sin
TV • 2021
Valerie Tozer
Fungus the Bogeyman
TV • 2015
Wendy Snow
That Mitchell and Webb Look
TV • 2006
Keeley Hawes
Pie in the Sky
TV • 1994
Stella Jackson
The Durrells
TV • 2016
Louisa Durrell
The Missing
TV • 2014
Gemma Webster
Forever Green
TV • 1989
Carol
Crossfire
TV • 2022
Jo
An Audience with...
TV • 1978
Self
The Graham Norton Show
TV • 2007
Self
Stonehouse
TV • 2023
Barbara Stonehouse
The Story of the Costume Drama
TV • 2008
Herself - Narrator
Agatha Christie's Marple
TV • 2004
Phillipa Haymes
Murder in Mind
TV • 2001
Deborah
Ambassadors
TV • 2013
Jennifer
The Blonde Bombshell
TV • 1999
Diana Fluck / Diana Dors
Heartbeat
TV • 1992
Michelle
Miss Austen
TV • 2025
Cassandra Austen
Doctor Who Extra
TV • 2014
Self
The Midwich Cuckoos
TV • 2022
Susannah Zellaby
Bodyguard
TV • 2018
Julia Montague
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV • 2014
Self
Orphan Black: Echoes
TV • 2024
Kira Manning
Traitors
TV • 2019
Priscilla Garrick
Summer of Rockets
TV • 2019
Kathleen Shaw
The Hollow Crown
TV • 2012
Queen Elizabeth
Year of the Rabbit
TV • 2019
Lydia
Inside No. 9
TV • 2014
Louise
The Assassin
TV • 2025
Julie Green
Honour
TV • 2020
DCI Caroline Goode
Orangutan Jungle School
TV • 2018
Narrator
Airborne
TV • 2024
Self - Narrator
The One Show
TV • 2006
Self
Falling
TV
Anna
Our Mutual Friend
TV • 1998
Elizabeth 'Lexie' Hexam
Troublemakers
TV • 1990
Mandy Harper
Karaoke
TV • 1996
Linda Langer